Bonus Tracks took an extended Thanksgiving absence, but is now back with many new writings for you all!
- Over at Medium, Hannah Jocelyn can tell you what your favorite album of 2019 says about you. Like the Jukebox itself, this year’s list is made better by collaboration: Katherine St. Asaph, Nortey Dowuona, Jackie Powell, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann, and Natasha Genet Avery all contributed.
- Ian Mathers helped pick Dusted Magazine’s Decade Picks.
- For The Cresset, Josh Langhoff put together a migration-themed playlist for your congregation. It includes Lil Nas X.
- For Rock & Roll Globe, Thomas Inskeep celebrated the 30th anniversary of the release of Quincy Jones’s Back on the Block.
- For The Line of Best Fit, Claire Biddles reconsidered Harry Styles’s Fine Line in the immediate aftermath of a Tory landslide.
- For Pitchfork, Joshua Minsoo Kim made the case for Puck, the newest release of “unabashedly precious ambient music” from Sean McCann.
- Kim has also converted his blog on experimental music, Tone Glow, into a newsletter.
- And you can see his ballot for Slant’s 25 best films of 2019.
- Speaking of year-ending best-of lists, Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa wrote up the year’s best TV and film scores for The Young Folks.
- Edward Okulicz posted a tribute to the late Marie Fredriksson of Roxette (on his Tumblr), as did Jessica Doyle (on her blog).
- Doyle also wrote about meaningful academic work and Passion Pit’s “Take a Walk” for Popscenery.