Watching the candles burn...BFD uploads a 'comin Tuesday evening for Chanukah 2017.

Let's face it.  Content-wise I haven't given you as much this year as I typically do.  There are myriad reasons for this - chronic procrastination, overtime at the office, depression ruts, fatigue, and of course, good old fashioned laziness.  But beginning this Tuesday evening for one week and one day, all will be right and proper with the universe.

In what has become an annual tradition on Wilfully Obscure (not to mention the ever increasing bane of my sanity) I'll be rolling out extra special, super duper entries over the week of Chanukah.   Beginning in 2012, I decided to spread the goodies out over the eight nights of Chanukah (check out the preliminary details for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.  This made sense on a couple of levels.  For one, it gives me a convenient excuse to share several mind-blowing "gifts" instead of just one biggie on Christmas.  Secondly, Chanukah represents personal relevance to me.  We all know you were envious of that boy down the block who had a yarmulke festooned to his head, who was given the privilege of lighting the menorah, and of course, reveling in eight glorious nights of presents.  Once again, I'm paying it forward.  Previous Chanukah entries have featured Wire, Velocity Girl, Jellyfish, The Pursuit of Happiness and Redd Kross, but name recognition is not hardly a guarantee.  As in past years, there will definitely be familiar faces, but also several participants that have never garnered face-time on W/O.

At the top of each Chanukah upload will be a thumbnail photo of a menorah, with the appropriate number of lit candles to denote each succeeding evening until all eight slots in the candelabra are occupied on the concluding night, December 19th.

All of this begs the question, "Has Wilfully Obscure been holding out on us for the last 11 months?"  Somewhat...but not quite.  In short, the presents I plan on revealing over the eight nights of Chanukah are of considerably high caliber.  I like to think that everything I share qualifies as good to excellent, but to paraphrase that sage Orwellian dictum, some are more equal than others.

A few housekeeping tidbits to be bear in mind.

• I was originally planning a big fat opening night, but decided it would be too overwhelming...so I'll partition it out across this Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.  No worries though, as I'm certain you'll be Düly rewarded.
• No box sets this year.  Ain't going there.  Maybe next time.
• If I can offer files in FLAC (in addition to standard MP3) I will.  If I don't post a FLAC download link for a certain title you can assume it's not available in that format.
• Mystery Monday will be active this week as usual, but not next Mon (Dec. 18).

Come around sundown this Tuesday, and as always, download responsibly.