Preamble

Here’s a little secret about me. I love music. I love the uplifting bombastic anthems and the dark melancholic dirges. I love the grandiose guitar and the mournful mellotron. This list contains all of the above. From moments of sheer beauty to crushing brutality, it's all there. Throughout this year, I noticed that I seemed to be drawn to the latter of the two. The kind of music that broods in the back of your mind and makes your hair stand on end. I'm not a physiologist so I don't know what that says about me but someone as deeply admire once said...

"If your like me, you find the saddest music to be the most beautiful" - Steven Wilson