I wrote about my favorite album of the year, EMA’s Past Life Martyred Saints, as part of Pitchfork’s list of our top 50 albums.
The lists are always fun to put together. I was telling people that assigning these blurbs is my favorite work-related task of the year. I feel like a baseball manager filling out the line-up card for the last game of the World Series. It’s exciting for me to imagine what writers will come up with. Very happy with how everything turned out.
The EMA album felt like a friend to me this year. It’s been a while since I had such an intense emotional connection to a record. I don’t follow many people on Tumblr, but it was interesting to see that a number of the people I do follow also have a deep connection to Past Life. I enjoyed seeing writing from my Tumblr gang about this record this year, even though most of them probably don’t know they are in my Tumblr gang.
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