The past year wasn’t particularly outstanding for me as far as music goes. Probably because I took a step back and didn’t pay as much attention as I had been. So I almost certainly missed a thing or two in addition to what normally goes beyond my ken. Generally, my year-end reviews, like all my reviews, are long winded and doubtless overflowing with needless extravagance of language. So this year, I’m going to keep sweet but I can’t say short as I’m sure there will still be a needless extravagance of language. (more…)