0.11.0 - It's Oh So Quiet (Week 11 Wrapup)

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This week:  Well, not much

Look, I already covered 19 albums this week, and if I am honest, I've not managed to listen to much else apart from those this week.  I've listened to a couple of albums this weekend, but not enough that I want to spend the time to write them up here - I'll load them into next week.  Besides, I had guests all yesterday afternoon, then Catherine and I watched Severance last night and drank a bottle of wine, and I am going out for the day in like 40 minutes, so I wouldn't have time to write anything useful anyway.

Am I doing this just so we maintain the Weekly Wrapup structure of two posts and a wrap up per week.  Obviously.  In the meantime, we can excuse ourselves this week and come back next week with like 40 albums and write something long and totally unwieldy.  Have a good one.

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