If you want to get a clearer picture of what we’re into, here at tQ, then you should pay equal attention to today’s chart and the tracks chart which will be published next week.įor more than one person who works at this website, today’s chart, which draws together reissues, mixes, live albums, splits, compilations, sessions, anthologies, greatest hits and soundtracks, is the key statement of the year and I can guarantee that if you check out everything here you’ll walk away with something that will boggle your ears. We’ve long acknowledged that the album simply doesn’t hold the same position of primacy as it once did (although most of us here are still dyed in the wool fans of that format).
There’s no way we would have ignored such a fine release, it’s just that - if you want to be really pedantic about it - it’s not really a studio album as such but something that sits on the live album/ sessions anthology/ compilation axis and as such it’s something a bit different. I hope the publication of this chart acts as an astringent huff of smelling salts to bring those poor souls back round to consciousness. I’ve noticed at least five people having a conniption on social media because Autechre’s (brilliant as far as I’m concerned) NTS Sessions 1 - 4 wasn’t in our Albums Of The Year 2018 chart which was published on the site last week.
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