There’s only so much you can get to in a given year.  So many albums, so many bands, so many genres and sub genres and niche genres and one-offs and splits and reunions and supergroups and…you get the drift.  It’s easy to have a few albums slip through the cracks for whatever reason, but it’s doubly weird when those same albums you missed appear on the very site you write for on another contributor’s list.  I swear: we talk ALL THE TIME – sometimes even about music!

Anyway, one of my favorite things about Nine Circles is catching up on what my fellow 9C knuckleheads are banging their craniums to.  So here’s nine selections I should have listened to, but didn’t in 2017.   Continue reading →