I realized on Monday that is had been forever since my last entry. I am striving to teach myself a lesson in balance. I tend to go all in with one hobby for a time and then switch to another. I am working to devise a way I can do more than one at a time it is still a work in progress.

In an effort to play a bit of catch up I am going to write about each of the three albums that have been on a steady rotation on my turntable as of late. I am hoping that I will be able to do each of them justice.

Tall and Small aka Colin and Ioana create cover songs though I would say they are much more than that. Their passion and enjoyment of music is evident as they weave together these magnificent tributes to songs they love.

I came to a realization the other day that while I often gush about the music of Chelsea Cutler I have never written about any of her songs which is a great wrong that I will make right today.

Lisa’s music always strikes a certain chord with me. There is something truly exceptional about the way she meticulously crafts her songs. It always gets me thinking and inspires me to write. It just feels so sincere; it has been said that the only truth is music. I really feel that as I listen to this album it has this magnificently genuine aire about it. I don’t feel as if Lisa is holding back and all the emotions put into this album come across unquestionably; I feel it so heavily and completely. 

Lights has released acoustic versions of most of her albums but “ded” is something different. Instead of an acoustic version she took her previous album “pep” and flipped it on its head giving it this brilliantly somber and pensive tone. For me it completely changed everything about the album in every way possible.

Songs are often written about specific experiences yet when they are superbly crafted their meanings extend far beyond the situation about which they were written and their messages are far reaching. That is the case with this track. What truly strikes me about this track is how incredibly pensive and vulnerable the lyrics are. Lowering your defenses to be so introspective is challenging. I would assume it is even more so when you are putting those feelings into a song and releasing it out into the world.

Abrams debut album is bedroom pop perfection. She owns up to past mistakes in a way that I think many of us would be afraid to do in private; she barres her soul to the world and in doing so has managed to create one of the best debut I have heard in many years.

I recently saw many people posting on Instagram “six albums that changed my life” and I thought it was interesting idea. I often do posts that are Top __ albums or top albums within a specific genre but this prompt had me thinking about things differently.

This year I decided to completely abandon any sort similarity my top albums of the year post had to the plethora of others you will find out there. Rather than causing myself an abundance of tedious work listening to many albums which in some cases I wouldn’t normally listen to in order to determine which ones I thought were the best of the year. I decided to instead talk about the top artists which defined my year musically regardless of whether they released any music during the year.

The collaboration album In This Together has a cohesiveness to it that is impressive; I am amazed by the way all styles of these different come to together so spectacularly.

The way the sound of Swift has evolved since she began her career and especially these last few years has me in awe. While listening to “Love Story” or “Long Live” I never would have thought that one day we would be here. Through it all she maintained what I have always considered to be the essence of her music which is weaving emotional tales in her songs.

The profundity of emotion in this track astounds me. It contains a brilliant blend of both chill and delicately upbeat pop sound; with lyrics that mesh a fear of reclusion and expectantly looking toward the future.

It is rare to come across an artist whose music strikes a nerve in the core of your soul. In a way that is inexplicable; you enjoy their music even if you feel there is so much about it that you don’t understand. You are consistently coming up with new ideas and feelings the more you listen. Lisa’s music is that for me

Matty has crafted something outstanding once again. I really enjoy the magnificent instrumentation on this EP; there are these fantastic stretches without lyrics that provide me time to truly reflect on what the tracks are making me feel

This is the kind of album I don’t come across all that often; one where each track builds on each other and they all work together to form such an extraordinary narrative. Due to this fact I don’t want to listen to the tracks out of order. Doing so really changes the experience of listening

I have talked much in the past about love on this blog. How it can be quite complicated, difficult, open us up to vulnerabilities and the list goes on. I have been thinking on this subject a lot recently, mainly due to the music I’ve been listening to and now I think differently.

As I have begun my preparation for my top releases of 2022 post. I discovered a number of album releases from this year that I had completely missed somehow. I just want to talk a bit about them as I was just so completely blown away by them.

Lately what’s been on my mind is the way music can convey emotions and portray feelings in a way that nothing else really can. I focus on lyrics here, but a song is far more than that or at least there can be if there is a talented artist such as Lisa behind the track.

With her new album Diary Music Natatlie blends elegiac and pensive lyrical musings with wonderfully expressive guitar. Being a lexophile myself I appreciate how brilliantly poetic the songs are.

It is a double feature this week; two outstanding musicians from my neighbor to the north, Canada. There is something about Canada I don’t know exactly what it is but I seem to have a connection with music that originates from there more than just about any other place.