Playlist Postscript: January 2019

The last good year begins

Welcome to the first Playlist Postscript of 2025. After revisiting playlists from the end of the year last month, this month we loop back to the beginning of a specific year. For the next few months we’ll be finishing off my playlists from 2019. January 2019 was a good month. I went on tour for two weeks. I revisited Chicago for the first time since moving to New York and met the dog that I now live with for the first time too. I got back into progressive rock in a big way, which laid the foundations for my first suggestions about Progmatism at the end of 2019. I still like a lot of the music in this playlist to this day. I think you can tell that I was happy to no longer be writing about music professionally. I was getting back to being me. The songs that hold up the best six years later will received the coveted Lamniformes Shark Emoji of Excellence (🦈 ), while the rare songs that factor into future entries of Drumming Upstream will receive the Drum Emoji of Destiny (🥁).

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