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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…
Posted inListening Habits
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…
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My Music Listening Habits for April 2020
Well, it finally happened. After a very long, very strong, 9 month reign as Queen, Sigrid has been dethroned from my top artist for the month. And by a rather huge margin. Funny enough, she has been dethroned by someone she knows, who is also a Norwegian singer, AURORA. It was a one-two punch though, because Sigrid has dropped to number three, not number two, with Tessa Violet sliding in at number two. I can't honestly blame the VierLive show entirely for Aurora's rise here, she has been on sort of a slow bubble for a while now in my…
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Vi Er Live – Sigrid and Aurora (Somewhere Else, 2020)
Last year when I went to see Sigrid in St. Louis, I told my wife afterwards that I wanted to go to more concerts. That plan clearly isn't going to pan out to anything with everything going on. What I have done though is watched quite a few virtual concerts. The Somewhere Else Festival (Et Helt Annet Sted) presented at ViErLive.no is actually the fourth live show I've watched from Sigrid int he past month. The previous being a bit on the Twitch Steam Aid event, a short show on the IGTV from Levis, and one for the opening of…