It happens almost every year: We work tirelessly to craft year-end lists, we hit 'publish,' And then, someone releases an incredibly great project that’s too late to make the cut. Here's some of our favorites that didn't make the cut (but def would have)
we heard. We make our lists and check them twice. We hit “publish.” And then, a few days or weeks after our list closes, someone releases an incredibly great project that’s too late to make the cut.
It’s not fair, but deadlines are deadlines, and time only flows one way. Past Hall of Famers in this category include D’Angelo’s — both of which, as it happens, ended up ranking highly on the lists we published theThis year, those final December weeks have seen a particularly excellent crop of new LPs, and we feel especially regretful that we weren’t able to hear some of them back in, say, late November.