I've started interviewing some very special people (and condiments) about their musical nostalgia and making mixtapes for them based on their responses.

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Virtually every single record that receives any kind of review at all receives a positive one. So who is an album score even helping?
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in case you missed it...

all music critics are a bunch of frauds -- nobody can pick the "best" when we don't listen to everything. but I hope you choose me, the best fraud of them all, to help you find new music, instead of relying on algorithms to feed you AI slop.

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This was way too much text for bluesky but if you're wondering what the hell my whole deal is, it's all this nonsense. substack.com/@meandtimory...

Opening a can of worms with this one... but the real headline here is that nothing is as black and white as it seems, and this is me doing a lot of handwringing over it. Bonus: best discussion my articles have ever generated in the comments!

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Does new music have to be brand new, or just new to you?

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Hopping on the emotional roller coaster