Howdy, Casual Ramblers!
A long time ago, I was an aspiring, freelance music journalist. Well, I guess it’s not so long ago–2022 was only four years ago–but it feels like it.
And yet, even then, 2022 was the beginning of the end. I had stopped forcing myself to listen to at least ten records a week and felt a weight that I just couldn’t shake:
“Did I even like doing this?”
That depended on what the definition this is. I hated the treadmill. I hated the turnaround times. I hated the feeling that nothing I wrote really mattered because, let’s face it, I know next to nothing about music theory.
Just music history and flowery language.
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t like finding a new artist that could rock my world and write about it. Good, bad or ugly, I liked diving into the reason why an album sounded the way it did to me.
And the person who used to hound the internet for records every week and the person who sits and listens to nothing but what the turntable offers are the same person. There’s just nigh a decade between them.
Still, I’m keen to share some thoughts on the first record I set the needle upon after cleaning up my living space.
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