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...

This week:  Midlake, Self Esteem, Lady Gaga, Imogen Heap, RAYE, Wet Leg, illuminati hotties, Annie Lennox I've had this paranoid feeling for the past couple of weeks that less people read the weekly catchup posts because I don't post the image of what other bands I listened to in the header art.  Why this bothers me, or why I am changing the format a bit to make it more obvious what other bands were included in an attempt to modify the behaviours of the handful of people reading this is obviously completely unhinged.  I would be more successful just DMing the people I know who read this and tell them not to skip over the weekly summaries.  However, I've done it now and I'm probably not going back - whether I can be bothered to go back and update all the other weekly summaries remains to be seen. A few things happened this week;  I've written on a few occasions about my running discomfort with letting giant tech companies be the only conduit through which I can l...