No better way to end yet another shitshow of a year than by clinging to traditions, and for me that usually means digging up this blog from underneath the rubble of another twelve months of political discord and bad takes on social media and driving myself up the wall stretching my executive dysfunction to the limit and attempting to serve up another overview of all the nebulously-defined stuff I enjoyed this year. Here are six artists whose music helped me through the year, in no particular order.