The void is my friend.
Your last few words in my ear still ring (Oh)
Malice on verse 2 of Clipse’s The Birds Don’t Sing
You told me that you loved me, it was all in your tone (Oh-oh)
“I love my two sons” was the code to your phone, now you’re home
This was originally published on my music blog Synthicator. I have shut down that project so it is now republished here.
What a year it has been for music. Not only did we get some amazing music this year but we got significant musical phenomenons that dominated the discourse for the most of the year. 2024 was the year of the Brat, it was the year of Kendrick vs. Drake, Not Like Us and GNX.
As a hip-hop enjoyer, nay a music enjoyer I am ecstatic to have lived through very very interesting times musically speaking. Music to party to, music to cry to, music to protest to, music to fight to, music to love to. We’ve got it all this year.
These are the albums that defined 2024 for me. These are in no particular order.
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Last year in a blog post titled Recommended For You I talked about how I prefer human recommendations over ones made my machines. Today I saw a post shared by Nick Heer over on his blog about music discovery stagnation which linked to this post by Daniel Parris which made think about what I said in that blog post and how it applies to music discovery.
Continue reading “Fighting Music Discovery Stagnation”Every once in a while YouTube recommendation algorithm drops something into my feed that I really resonate with. It was a video from the pop punk band Against the Current and it instantly hooked me.
Continue reading “Musical Hyperfocus – Against the Current”2023 was a weird year for me when it came to music. There were a few albums that made an impact on me but I spent a lot of the year listening to live sets on YouTube. That said, let’s get into the albums that stood out.
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