Taking a brief hiatus from talking about my favourite albums to discuss some of the things which let us, as a music listening collective, down this year.
The Mercury Prize is always a good place to start for this kind of thing. We didn't see the same kind of fiasco this year as we have on occasions where the Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons or the xx came out victorious and this was good. And it was even a nice surprise that Adele didn't win. But Man Alive should have won.
The atrociously named Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds emerged to emphatically remind me why I was so happy at the break up of Oasis.
Bon Iver came back promising to make amends for the onslaught of sickening covers of Skinny Love, people correcting my pronunciation of the name and everyone treating For Emma as if it was the fucking Mumford and Sons. Amends were not made. Bon Iver (the album) is alright, its not great though. At best it's interesting and at worst it's mind numbingly dull.
Coldplay seemed to become the biggest band in the world with some pretty standard live performances and a stubbornly average album. And Radiohead made an album of practically static.
Both Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Feist released albums which were simply reiterations of previous work and we all forgot to tell The Drums to stop making music.
Watch the Throne and Ceremonials share the award for most overrated albums for being so preposterously blown out of proportion and just being mentioned at all, respectively.
By far the biggest disappointment, however, was the Guillemots, my formerly favourite band, with Walk the River. A wretched, suicidally abhorrent bucket of faffy bile.
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