Tag: Music
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Learning things from drumming
I’m getting better at drumming. It’s hard to exactly place what this means or quantify it, it’s a sort of “I know it when I see it” thing. I feel better on the drums, my body moves better, and I have a better sense of how to shape those movements. This has provoked some interesting…
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Album of the Year List 2024
You know what we do here. Honorable MentionsAntichrist Siege Machine – Vengeance of Eternal FireThe most pissed off album of the year, bar none. I don’t think metal is all that often well suited to expressing anger, most of the time its just too dramatic. To really get at what makes anger satisfying, it has…
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A great month(?) of music
My appreciation for music has its own peculiar cycles, some weeks I am obsessed with it, and others I find myself abjuring it in favour of other media like podcasts or background video essays. Sometimes though, I don’t really get to make that choice, as there is a deluge of excellent music releases back to…
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Album of the Year List 2023
Some words on the music I found most moving from 2023 AD Its that time of year, I always look forward to getting to look back on a year, and really just take in how much good music is released every year in all of my favourite genres. I’ve been thinking and saying this for…