Reviewing your parents' music collection
My parents own 453 physical records, 156 on vinyl and 297 on CD. They span across a variety of artists, eras and genres. From classic blues to postmodern punk, from Portuguese fado to Dutch chanson. It's an astonishing variety that speaks of my parent's musical open-mindedness and blows my mind every time I really think… Continue reading Pink Floyd can do humour? Yes, they can. And “Meddle” proves it.
My parents' taste in music has majorly influenced what I listened to growing up and how I approach music now. Their diverse catalogue of different artists and genres has made me a person unafraid of exploring the more unusual fields of what the contemporary music scene has to offer. I'm not interested in a particular… Continue reading Monsters, Gods and Vomiting Cyborgs – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s “Murder of the Universe” is a spectacle
Finding meaning in music can be quite distracting. Especially, when focusing on words. Sometimes, I don't like to pay attention to the lyrics of an album. Sometimes, I am afraid that focusing on the lyrical message might change my experience of the record for the worse. Sometimes, all I want to do is judge it… Continue reading I’m Drowning In A Sea Of Sound – Patti Smith’s “Easter”
Most of the music we listen to on a daily basis is a marriage of instrumentation and text, aiming to tell a story or convey a feeling through rhythms, chords and melodies. We determine genre based on what stories are told, which instruments are used, in which contexts they are played. Basically any music can… Continue reading A Moment of Stillness or Why I underestimated Kofelgschroa’s “BAAZ”
Sometimes, you can grasp the entire essence of an album by just listening to one song. Sometimes, there is this that one track that outshines any other on the record. Sometimes, this one song already says it all. And how convenient, when the song in question wears the same title as the album. Al Stewart's… Continue reading Why have an entire album when one song is enough? Al Stewart already says it all with ‘Year of the Cat’
The Dad Anthology 