Record Reconstructor

  This week: Filter, Ben Folds, Self Esteem, First Aid Kit, me being bad at Excel I'm not going to lie, it's been a slower week this week than normal.  It's proving difficult to both listen to several albums per day while also watching as much snooker as possible during this slim two week window when that is permissible in our household.  As such, outside of the nine albums I covered already this week, there's only a handful of other records I have found time to listen to, and I'm already in trouble with Catherine for abandoning her in front of the TV to write this blog post. Momentum is important and once I lose it, I find it very hard to pick it back up, so here we are. While we are talking about things which have been causing me to struggle, I've started to get to situations where I do find myself with some time to listen to music, but don't have a snap choice lined up and end up scrolling around for inspiration.  This is more of a me problem, because I h...

Dashboard! Not quite through February yet, and already over a quarter of the way done.  If I am honest, I'm surprised quite how easy this has been now I've established the habits that make it possible - I've got a good supply of recommendations, some concepts for stuff I can listen too in the next two weeks and write about, I'm feeling generally positive about the momentum I've managed to pick up here.  When I started this, I thought getting to a thousand was going to be a struggle;  more recently, I have gained some confidence to the point where I am starting to wonder at what point I start deploying the musical ripcords I had in reserve not because I need them, but because I want to listen to them and write about them before this is over. Pride goeth before the fall, however, so I am still just taking this one week at a time and not counting my chickens.  This week also saw my lowest volume album listening day, where I only managed two new records, both during my ...