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Post Category → Year End Posts

Anna’s Best of 2017: Top Albums

posted in Year End Posts 2017 on February 6, 2018 by Anna 3 Comments
Album covers from PAKK (Salpuri), Flash Flood Darlings (Fewchie Vs. Wolflove), Car, the garden (APARTMENT), Kang Taegu (bleu)

The Korean music year of 2017 was off to an excellent start with the release of 3rd Line Butterfly’s fifth full-length album Divided By Zero already on January 6th. As the year progressed I found my attention gravitating more towards singles and EPs than full-length releases, but the last couple of months of 2017 illustrated… Continue reading →

Anna’s Best of 2017: Top Discoveries

posted in Year End Posts 2017 on February 5, 2018 by Anna 0 Comments
Album art from Anna's top discoveries of 2017: Goodbye Wendy, Night Riding, DABDA, South Club

Since a few years ago, I’ve reached the age by which I’ve had to realize that listening to old favorites is generally more rewarding for me personally than seeking out new music. Nevertheless, I can’t really stop looking for new music to check out–much like how I will usually order my way through a menu… Continue reading →

Anna’s Best of 2017: Statistics Edition

posted in Year End Posts 2017 on January 31, 2018 by Anna 1 Comment
My 2017 Wrapped: In 2017, I listened for 31,504 minutes, to 4,389 different songs and 1,125 different artists. Along the way, I explored 5 genres.

Although buying physical media is still how I add to my music collection, as circumstances would have it most of my actual music listening during 2017 turned out to be streaming via Spotify. One benefit to this is that for once I have somewhat reliable statistics of what I’ve actually listened to throughout the year… Continue reading →

Gaon Charts 2017

posted in Gaon Korean Chart, Year End Posts 2017 on January 29, 2018 by Anna 2 Comments

A few weeks into 2018 Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the top 100 charts for 2017. While the idol side of Korean music is still what is more popular internationally, going through all of the charts I found much more diversity than I’ve registered in previous years. Gaon Korean Album Chart Given the emphasis… Continue reading →

Gaon Charts 2016

posted in Gaon Korean Chart, Year End Posts 2016 on March 4, 2017 by Anna 1 Comment

Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the overall charts for 2016 back in January. Gaon provided another look back at 2016 last week, February 22nd, as the winners of the 6th annual Gaon Chart Music Awards were announced. Gaon Korean Album Chart Much like in 2015 the Korean boy bands had a good year in… Continue reading →

[Recall 2010] LKL Critics’ Choice 2010: Anna Lindgren

posted in Album Reviews, Year End Posts 2010 on June 2, 2016 by Anna 0 Comments

This article listing Anna’s favorite releases of 2010 was edited by Philip Gowman and first posted on London Korean Links   Another year is coming to an end, and in what has become an unfortunate trend I’ve found that I’ve listened to much less music than the year before. However judging from the limited number… Continue reading →

[Recall 2009] LKL Critics’ Choice 2009: Anna Lindgren

posted in Reviews, Year End Posts 2009 on March 24, 2016 by Anna 0 Comments

This article listing Anna’s favorite releases of 2009 was edited by Philip Gowman and first posted on London Korean Links Since finally giving up my life as a student to get out into the real world a couple of years ago my relation to new music has changed a lot. I see an interesting looking… Continue reading →

Anna’s Best of 2015

posted in Year End Posts 2015 on February 1, 2016 by Anna 1 Comment

It’s been a month since the year of 2015 came to an end, so it’s well about time to summarize the year. In what has been a trend of recent years, I didn’t listen to as much music as I should have–something I’m working to change in 2016. Even so, I must say 2015 was… Continue reading →

Gaon Charts 2015

posted in Gaon Korean Chart, Year End Posts 2015 on January 12, 2016 by Anna 5 Comments

Korea’s national music chart Gaon has published its charts for 2015. It was the year of Hyukoh for sure, something clearly visible on all the charts. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean boy bands had a good year in 2015, according to Gaon’s Korean album chart for 2015. The top is all EXO, but strangely… Continue reading →

Best of 2015: Aggregate Edition

posted in Featured, Year End Posts 2015 on January 5, 2016 by Anna 1 Comment

Honoring Indieful ROK’s original intent of being a manual aggregator of sorts, I’ve had a look at what some Korean music blogs around have listed as the best releases of 2015 and made a summary. The blogs in question are Weiv, IZM, Music Y, and DiffSound. And to get some more input I also weighed… Continue reading →

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