So on my own end-of-year favourite albums list I mentioned the Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites award, which my fellow blogger Peenko organises and awards each year. The award is gained via consensus from the writers asked, and the top ten is worked out (I presume) by aggregating the scores given by everyone involved.
I’ve been thinking about my favourite albums and singles of the year since I was asked to submit my list to Peenko for the annual Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites Awards they do. In case you don’t know, Peenko asks all the active bloggers and music writers they know to submit a list of three albums and that’s compiled through averages and whatnot until they get a consensus from all the bloggers. I was going to hold this post back a few days, but since everyone else has fired the starting gun on their end-of-year lists, it can’t hurt to saturate some more.
This is the first, of what I hope will turn into a series of guest pieces by other writers and bloggers. The inaugural post is by my fellow blogger & current music editor of The Student, Anna Feintuck, and it’s all about Real Estate’s latest album Days.
On first listening to this record, it seems that the name Real Estate is something of a misnomer. Why have a band so obviously enamoured with nature labelled themselves with such an immediate signifier of urbanity?
