Years of getting better at writing, discovering music, and trying to somehow merge those things into a form of authorship where my words could do a service to music I truly love...

Years of building up a little community around it, being at both ends of introducing somebody to a record they fucking love that changed their lives.

When you're reading my top 100 albums of the 2010s-list,

just know.

It has all

been leading up

to this.