My Music Listening Habits for 2021
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My Music Listening Habits for 2021

It's time again for my new favorite annual tradition here (until it isn't), my music listening habits for the year. Not a lot of new this year, I'll admit that. Though I sometimes wonder if part of that is that some artists and albums get sort of lost int he sauce of over listening to some of my favorite artists. Anyway onto the break down, I'll split up artists and albums even though they kind of parallel each other. Artists The biggest movers this year were Aurora and CHVRCHES in the number two and number one spot. CHVRCHES has a…
CHVRCHES @ The Pageant feat Donna Missal (12/06/2021)
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CHVRCHES @ The Pageant feat Donna Missal (12/06/2021)

Back in 2019 after going to see Sigrid live, I decided I really wanted to go to more concerts. I even started planning to maybe try to go to Lollapalooza at some point. Then well, the world fell apart, and there were no concerts really for a while. Things are still kind of falling apart but they are better for people making an effort to make them better (though that's a subject for another post). I did manage to make it to another concert. I even have one, maybe more lined up for 2022 already. This time it was CHVRCHES.…
CHVRCHES – Screen Violence
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CHVRCHES – Screen Violence

CHVRCHES - Screen Violence Cover Released - 2021.08.27 Note: I started on a general CHVRCHES write up I intended to post first but because I am a slacker, I didn't finish it yet. Screen Violence is the fourth full studio album from CHVRCHES, and the first that I've gone through a "release cycle" for.  It was preceded by three singles, He Said She Said, How Not to Drown, and Good Girls.  The videos all share a sort of kaleidoscope motif similar to the video for Gun.  I suspect this was done somewhat out of necessity due to COVID and travel…
My Music Listening Habits for 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for 2020

Yeah, those monthly updates were kind of bleh, so I dumped them. But I still want to do a yearly wrap up. Though overall there isn't a lot that's surprising to me about the yearly stats. The year was dominated by most of the artists I would expect it to be dominated by. Sigrid, Tessa Violet, Aurora, CHVRCHES have 14 of my top 25 albums. This grid doesn't even include a few additional Sigrid "Albums" of live tracks that don't properly show up so they get filtered. Anyway, a bit better breakdown... I am actually surprised that Sigrid still topped…