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toe: DOKU-EN-KAI

I had this rambling thing that was a mess and ended up cutting out quite a lot which left this shorter than I’d have liked, but I didn’t have much to say, so it works. I feel I did a … Continue reading

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Born Ruffians: PULP

I remember this one being a struggle to write. I finished it mostly to get it out of the way. Glad it is now out of the way, but I could’ve written much more, I feel. Most of my interview … Continue reading

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Born Ruffians: SQUEEZE

This is the first review I finished this year. I don’t know as to why I sat for so long on finishing this, but I did. When I came back to it I did what I felt was enough to … Continue reading

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Born Ruffians: JUICE

This is the last review I wrote last year. I think by the time I wrote this I was feeling burned out, but more due to house issues than anything else. That said, I also think that that seeped into … Continue reading

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SUMAC: May You Be Held

This was mostly written during one listen. I’m fairly certain I could’ve finished this off a few weeks ago. Not sure why I didn’t, but here we are. Most of the editing I did was removing some stuff and doing … Continue reading

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Napalm Death: Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

I started this last year. I had an idea that involved explaining how Napalm Death approach their music as an artistic, conceptual endeavour and was going to use past approaches to performance and songwriting as examples. I was also going … Continue reading

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Quicksand: Distant Populations Review

This one took… maybe two hours to edit. I knocked out a really rough draft about two, maybe three weeks ago. Didn’t do anything with it for some reason. Forced myself through editing it earlier today. A lot of it … Continue reading

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Senyawa: Alkisah Review

This is another review where most of it remained as is after a very lazy editing process that has taken most of today. I wrote this all out last week over a short period and decided to once more not … Continue reading

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Senyawa: The Ocean Review

I wrote most of this over one listen last week and left it mostly intact. It’s not a great (or necessarily a good) writing by any stretch of the imagination, but I really like how it feels a bit like … Continue reading

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