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If the one gone was a pretty dreadful year all round, I’m still stumbling into this new one with the same giddy sense of optimism that I usually find somewhere tucked into my belt at the start of each year. Maybe one year I’ll learn, but not this time!
Yesterday I posted my favourite music of the year, today I thought I’d round up a few of my favourite other things because, well, I haven’t written anything in a few weeks and I seemingly have an overwhelming urge to do so. For the last few years I’ve been going through the…
Hey there, and welcome to the newsletter of Hollow Stone Press, which is to say… me, Paul Stephenson. Aha! See, I was all tricksy there, tricking you all into thinking I was a VERY IMPORTANT MEDIA COMPANY rather than a man sat a desk. It is a pretty nice desk, though.
As has been a running theme for the last few years, the worse a year is, the better the soundtrack. Looking back over the year to try and pull together an AOTY list has been harder than I can ever remember. I couldn’t even keep it to twenty albums, so I’ve gone for a nice round…

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