Raffaella – Ballerina
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Raffaella – Ballerina

Raffaella feels like a bit of an interesting oddity in my list of "artists I like to listen to". For the most part, to be frank, she feels like kind of a nobody level musician, though not for not trying pretty hard to get somewhere. Though Wikipedia says she was dating Justice Smith for a while and she got a set on Vevo Discover, which is pretty sweet. I'm not really here to gossip though. My first exposure was when she opened for Sigrid in 2019. Before the show I started listening to this album just fro the sake of…
Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend
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Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend

Released 2016.03.11 I don't know exactly when my first exposure with Aurora was, but I can say my exposure of actually becoming a fan, was through Sigrid. Which is kind of funny because I feel like it more often would go the other way. I don't know that Sigrid and Aurora are "friends" exactly, but they have, I dunno, been in the same room together, and re both originally from Norway. Though Sigrid seems a bit more based in England, Aurora is decidedly Norwegian. I'm sure overtime my music tastes will evolve again, but for the time being, Aurora is…
Dodie – Hot Mess (RSD Vinyl)
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Dodie – Hot Mess (RSD Vinyl)

Released - 2022.09.30Vinyl - 2023.04.22 I am not real sure why Dodie put out another EP, Hot Mess, as a follow up to her first album Build a Problem. Following her online suggests that she writes well, a lot of music, feels like there would be plenty for a while album. I mean, yeah, there is some of it that's kind of weird and a bit banal, but that didn't seem like it held back her album. But here we are, with a fresh, 4 track EP. I also want to take a moment to talk about this particular release,…
Record Store Day 2023
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Record Store Day 2023

Today was Record Store Day.  It's moistly just, a "promotional" sort of deal for local record shops, and not really like, a "real holiday".  I decided I would go ahead and give it a go.  There were a couple of pretty inexpensive albums that I was interested in and I've recently (finally) picked up a record player after many years of "I should get a record player". Man, now I'm just getting layers and layers of things to bring up here.  Maybe it's best to just start at, "Why vinyl?" I guess it's almost, "Why not?"  Ok, there are plenty…
Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
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Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend

Released - 2021.06.04 Though Wolf Alice doesn't really sound a lot like CHVRCHES, I had enough people in the CHVRCHES fandom channels suggest them as a good group, so I opted to go ahead and give this group a try with their (as of this time), latest album, Blue Weekend. Released in 2021, this is the group's third full album. They have a sound that reminds me quite a bit of groups like Metric and Garbage. As mentioned before, the sound isn't really the same as CHVRCHES, but it's sort of similar, so I can definitely see the cross appeal.…