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Music writers, what is your favorite thing that you wrote this year? Used to do this on the other site every December, and I love doing it bc I get to catch up on articles I missed plus cool writers get to promote themselves :)

theres only one thing worse than when a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is thrown into an otherwise really solid album.

its when a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is thrown into an album that was already super bad

i dont care what adrianne lenker says, the lyrics are "like some cheap PLASTIC movie" not "like some cheap classic movie"

Apple Music’s queue now works like Spotify’s does…. We lost guys.

Notes on Mount Eerie's Night Palace:

1. his command over sound is exhausting

2. living in the present within the context of the flowing echoes of the past is paradoxical, which is reflected in how these soundscapes battle for attention with Elverum's vocal and songwriting style.

imagine being his kid and you get back from elementary school or whatever and your widowed dad is writing the most bleak shit you've ever heard and you interrupt him to ask if you can play outside with the neighborhood kids and he's like yeah oka- OMG IS THAT ANOTHER RAVEN?

Finally listening. Delayed it for a couple weeks because I ran out of tissues and kept forgetting to buy more.

Where’s artpop BlueSky at, how do I get that on my feed again. Where are all the bjork fans and the Gracie Abrams haters

Just found like 20% of my following list from Twitter on BlueSky by scrolling through the @terrorbirdmedia.bsky.social following list. Terrorbird we fuuuuucking love you. They are following like most of the music journalists I gaf about. Now I just gotta get the algorithm to be less boring.

Blue sky needs to get funny, and quick

GOAT behavior

This app would be better if it had Elon Musk on it