🎧 Ah, the annual ritual. While others fret about Spotify's algorithmic pronouncements, that ephemeral Wrapped business, I stand apart, firmly in the analogue glow of ownership. My list, my music, is a record of deliberate, tactile acquisition; this ranking is a document of weight, of currency exchanged for the enduring right to listen, repeatedly, without any of that bothersome 'streaming' nonsense. This is my true top ten, a carefully calibrated order of records that earned their spot in my collection this year.
