E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Eyewear, The Blog , usually enjoys compiling end of the year lists. 2016, now arguably the punch line to a Kafka-Beckett comedy routine, doesn't seem the sort of place to lodge too many enthusiasms, but of course some of the finest films, songs, and poems, have been created during wartime, and The Great Depression, and other major moments in recent history. 2016 will be remembered for the  Dylan Nobel, Brexit, the slaughter of Aleppo, the deaths of Castro, Bowie, Ali, Carrie Fisher , and the Trump election - probably little else, except the rise of social media/iPhone ubiquity in the techno-cultural sphere.     BEST MUSIC   A cruel trilogy of masterful albums, two almost posthumous, are clearly in the top five - by Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave , and David Bowie . Then there's Lemonade , by Beyoncé . Drake and Rihanna  dropped major new LPs, as did Solange . Warpaint, PJ Harvey, Animal Collective, offered fine new LPs . Lady Gaga r...