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Best in Music: 2021

Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Kacey Musgraves, Wolf Alice, Foo Fighters, Japanese Breakfast, Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo, and Tyler the Creator make my end of year list.

Best Album

Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee

This year saw two artists abandon their more downtrodden sounds and embrace a happier tone. Lorde had a more straightforward pop album in “Solar Power,” meanwhile the Michelle Zauner led Japanese Breakfast explored the facets of joy and happiness for one of her most personal and experiential records to date. It’s an album you can sit and envelope yourself in, or just have on in the background of a nice dinner, but it’s never disposable noise. It was certainly one of the top albums I had on repeat this year.

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Weird Al’s “Bad Hair Day” is One of the Most Important Albums of the 90s

Weird Al in the videos for Amish Paradise and Gump, courtesy Al Yankovic on YouTube

Weird Al Yankovic’s 1996 album Bad Hair Day just celebrated the 25th anniversary of its release on 12 March. I was 10 when it came out, and received a cassette of it that Christmas. That album, more than any other of the era, shaped my musical interests as a kid who was just starting to discover music on my own, as opposed to just listening to what my dad put on a mix-tape for me. For what it was, what it is, Bad Hair Day deserves to be in the conversation as one of the most important albums of the 90s, and that is a hill I’m willing to die on.

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