Needles & Grooves

And Atrocity Exhibition just a few days before. What a year that was.

I don't know if it's just nostalgia for better times or what, but to me 2015 and 2016 were like a very brief golden age of music in the 2010s. The amount of great music that was released in those two years is staggering.

I think it's both, that was about the time I really started following music, but I was looking back a few months ago and still thinking, holy shit what a wild couple of years.

I mean this honestly because I am deeply out of touch with the zeitgeist: was it?

@kvetcha I'd argue that like 25 of the top 50 albums of the last decade were released 2015-2016

I have a hard time thinking of that album as influential, but I don't like it so I could easily miss its influence. Examples?

@gaporter you should check out Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster. He makes the argument for 2016 being the best year of music of all time. It's also a BBC sounds podcast. Would recommend!

@GritNGlitter I like to think of it as a point where experimental indie and pop started to trend mainstream. Perhaps it's more one album in a trend than THE album, but BJ Burton has gone on to work with Charli XCX, Taylor Swift and Kacy Musgraves after this.

@JonnyH I've heard of him! I remember he did this video with a YouTube channel I like

@gaporter oh cool! Thanks for sharing! I haven't seen this one and I'm mildly obsessed with him these days.

Yeah, I am surprised how many people share this assertion. As someone who enjoys Bon Iver’s work I am hard pressed to think of this album as important to me or to the musical landscape as a whole. That being said, there are lots of people that find this album important so there is likely some truth to it.

…I am guessing the people that really enjoyed it found it profound while the rest of us were left wondering what we were missing.