Feel free to recommend me albums to listen to for this. If I'm going to drag this out to a full year, I'm going to need suggestions. February 5th: Teen Dream by Beach House This was my first time with a full Beach House album (you're probably sick of me saying things to this effect) and I liked it quite.a bit. I don't listen to a lot of dream pop, but this makes me want to re » Continue Reading
January 29th: Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel I expected this album to be the sort of straightforward folk-rock that S&G are famous for. While there's plenty of that, the first two tracks threw me off somewhat. I mean, when you start the album with a 30 second instrumental followed by a sound collage with synth and samples of "The Sound Of Silence", consider me surprised. Of course, this is still » Continue Reading
A whole month into this thing. I'd pat myself on the back if I thought I deserved it. January 22nd: Too Far To Care by Old 97s (or is it THE Old 97s?) My introduction to Old 97s was hearing "Timebomb" on my local college station, which I fell in love with immediately. Naturally, I decided to listen to this album, on which "Timebomb" is the first song. The rest of the album is just as enjoyable as ... » Continue Reading
You know the drill. January 15th: The Electric Lady by Janelle Monae I was familiar with a few Janelle Monae songs, and with her amazing performance in Glass Onion, so I checked out this album and I liked it a lot. It's apparently the third album in a sci-fi concept series, so I'm missing some context, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying » Continue Reading
Second week of my album-a-day thing. See the tag for the previous entry. January 8th: Græ by Moses Sumney I'd been meaning to check this one out for a while because Mic the Snare loved it so much, and I really enjoyed this. I actually kept revisiting this when not listening to my list. It's music that's not beholden to any genre or specific style, and it's free to explore all these different textu... » Continue Reading
At some undefined point last year, I started a checklist in my Notes app of albums that I had been meaning to listen to. At the beginning of this year, I decided that I would listen to one of these albums a day, and just now decided that I will document my listening week by week. I don't have a full year's worth of albums in the list, and reserve the right to add more as I see fit. But enough prea... » Continue Reading
I tried to add the following HTML's into my bio but there's just empty space where they should be. Can anyone who's actually good at HTML help me out here? » Continue Reading
I can feel the chill in the air. I can feel the slight tilt of the Earth. The memories are coming back in waves. Very specific sensations, associations, the dots being connected in my mind. The smell of decaying leaves causes so many other neurons to fire. And yet... I can't help but think of how it used to get this cold much sooner in the month. It may be getting cold, but nowhere near as cold as... » Continue Reading
Sometimes you need to get new earbuds at the bookstore but you also have to get a book and you aren't paying that much attention to the earbuds you picked out because you need the book and by the time you've opened the earbuds, you realize it's actually a protective rubber case for your airpods, and now you can't return it. It happens. » Continue Reading
I'm currently training it on my playlists. Mainly this one: Disco Elysium Vibe Playlist (yes, I use Tidal, judge me.) I'm curious to see what it recommends me. If any of you guys have last.fm, feel free to link yours in the comments. » Continue Reading
Ever have that feeling where you finish the Magnus Archives and you see that there's a lot of post-canon fanfictions where Jon and Martin end up in Night Vale and, as a joke, briefly entertain the idea that they would end up in the apartment of the two guys from the obscure but really funny podcast that you're obsessed with called Why I Hate This Album and have to start reviewing albums with them ... » Continue Reading