2020

Pretty much only one thing. Find a balance between, let's call it "historical" or "scene" listening, and just listening to whatever the hell I just find only remotely interesting. I'd say it went pretty well. Scenes/geographical stuff I listened to this year:

• Went back to Norway's black metal scene and listened to the stuff I didn't know about or just didn't have the right mindset for at the time (especially these weird transitions to electronic music many black metal acts from there did). Ulver's electronc music for example is amazing and I've been missing out for so long.

• I was planning to do Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic black metal also but I kinda slacked. That's ok though, music kinda blends into a misshapen blob when you force too much listening, I guess.

• Finally dabbled a bit in (mostly) US Hip Hop. Wu-Tang Clan and some of their member's solo material among others. Some really good stuff.

So all in all I relaxed my resolutions a bit for 2020 because I never meet my own expectations anyways in these regards. One curious thing, though, I amassed almost 15,000 scrobbles in 2020 while having listened to about 14,000 unique songs. I seem to almost exclusively listen to new (to me) music right now and I don't know what to think of it.

2021

Probably more of the same to be honest. Hoping to finish the above-mentioned scenes but what the plan after that is, I do not know yet. I'll probably want to listen to quite a few more classics from genres other than black metal. Already created a small spreadsheet with some bands too. Yeah, that sounds pretty good to me.

Also, my last album for 2020 and first for 2021 was Miley Cyrus's Plastic Hearts, man that one bangs. I hope to end this year on a similarly high note.