I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday with their loved ones. It’s late November, so my thoughts have now turned to what I may include on my year-end best albums list. The lists I’ve seen so far have been pretty awful, but to be fair, it was a pretty slow year. I have no idea what all I will include, but expect to see Santogold and Kate Nash. I might do a ranking of singles as well. I’ll do my album list on Rate Your Music and post here at year’s end.

ALSO: Has anyone heard the new Kanye West yet? Is it a bold step forward or an experimental mess? I’d love to hear what you think.