1,2, 11 for end of the year asks! :)
this is so hard. i wore out so many songs this year to keep myself, like, Alive. but tbh the first one that occurred to me was “i feel better” by novo amor, and i’m hard-pressed to think of one that comforted me more than that, so we’ll say that one.
i think folklore is probably the one i listened to the most—driving along the coast with my roommate, just to have somewhere to go and something to see besides the walls of the apartment—singing along as passionately as we wanted to. i also feel pretty lucky in that a bunch of my favorite artists released albums this year—phoebe bridgers! the oh hellos! the mountain goats! novo amor! the staves (technically their new album comes out in feb, but they’ve released three gorgeous singles so i’m counting them)!—but i guess my personal favorite was boreas, if just for the title track.
11. something you want to do again next year?
cut down a christmas tree! we decided to do choose-and-cut this year to reduce covid risk as much as possible, at a pretty out-of-the-way tree farm, and it was actually much more wonderful than just walking around a tree lot... i’d like to keep that up in future years.