Posts Tagged: The Year’s Best Winter Music
ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,
ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,
ACL 2024 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
This year’s ACL selection of The Year’s Best Winter Music honors every aspect of the season, from gently falling snow to white-out conditions, from winter sports to Antarctic research stations. Half of the entries are appearing here for the first time,
ACL 2024 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
This year’s ACL selection of The Year’s Best Winter Music honors every aspect of the season, from gently falling snow to white-out conditions, from winter sports to Antarctic research stations. Half of the entries are appearing here for the first time,
ACL 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
At A Closer Listen, we make a clear distinction between winter music and music that is released in winter. Winter music is evocative of the season and latitudes in which snow and ice take up permanent residence. The catch is that some
ACL 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
At A Closer Listen, we make a clear distinction between winter music and music that is released in winter. Winter music is evocative of the season and latitudes in which snow and ice take up permanent residence. The catch is that some
ACL 2022 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
December is the beginning of winter music season ~ not holiday music, but seasonal music, a soundtrack to the ice and snow. The music sounds fitting all the way through the new year, as the temperatures plummet, the wind howls,
ACL 2022 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
December is the beginning of winter music season ~ not holiday music, but seasonal music, a soundtrack to the ice and snow. The music sounds fitting all the way through the new year, as the temperatures plummet, the wind howls,
ACL 2021 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Over the past decade, we’ve experienced a shift in the tone of winter music. In more innocent days, winter music was the sound of snow, children skating and sledding, gorgeous piano miniatures that mimicked the patterns of flakes. This type
ACL 2021 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Over the past decade, we’ve experienced a shift in the tone of winter music. In more innocent days, winter music was the sound of snow, children skating and sledding, gorgeous piano miniatures that mimicked the patterns of flakes. This type
ACL 2020 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Winter music is more than a seasonal score; it also represents a state of mind. We’ve all been wintering this year: hunkering down, staying in, waiting for the storm to pass. Will we simply survive, or will we be able
ACL 2020 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Winter music is more than a seasonal score; it also represents a state of mind. We’ve all been wintering this year: hunkering down, staying in, waiting for the storm to pass. Will we simply survive, or will we be able
ACL 2019 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
We have a soft spot for winter music, as do our readers. The 25 Best Winter Albums of All Time remains our all-time most-viewed post; every year, as the cold descends, we post an update as The Year’s Best Winter Music.
ACL 2019 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
We have a soft spot for winter music, as do our readers. The 25 Best Winter Albums of All Time remains our all-time most-viewed post; every year, as the cold descends, we post an update as The Year’s Best Winter Music.
ACL 2018 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Thanks to climate change, many of us are experiencing longer, colder winters. It’s no surprise that winter music is also on the rise. This was a particularly good year for the genre, as demonstrated in two early-year round-ups. Now that
ACL 2018 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Thanks to climate change, many of us are experiencing longer, colder winters. It’s no surprise that winter music is also on the rise. This was a particularly good year for the genre, as demonstrated in two early-year round-ups. Now that
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