Reviewing your parents' music collection
In 2018 Australian songwriter Stella Donnelly broke my heart with Boys Will Be Boys, the second song on her magnificent debut EP Thrush Metal. She simply cracked it right open, split it down the middle until silent tears streamed down my cheeks and dripped from my chin. In 2019 she had me crying again by… Continue reading Remembering 2019: Australia’s Finest – Stella Donnelly’s “Beware of the Dogs”
I feel like I am expanding my collection of weirdly titled albums with this next choice of 'albums that shaped my 2019', including a record I discovered in April on another late night google spree. Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla by Sons of an Illustrious Father is a rare beauty, synthesising… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A 21st Century Masterpiece – Sons of an Illustrious Father’s “Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla”
I have different ways of finding new music. Next to recommendations - either from friends and family or from the sometimes scarily accurate spotify algorithm - I have the tendency to either just type in names or words I find interesting into the search bar to see what music comes up. Or I go on… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A Study in Album Names – AJJ’s “People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World”
I started this blog in February as the final project for one of my undergrad courses. And I'm equally surprised and proud of myself that I'm still writing about music on here. It's been an interesting journey, closely examining the music of others, of my parents and my brother. But as 2019 is coming to… Continue reading Time To Look Back – 5 Songs For 2019
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