Album Reviews

February 3, 2025

365 Album Challenge – January

At the beginning of the year, I was invited to take on the daunting challenge of listening to a new album daily (or at least 365 albums throughout 2025). IF…

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January 22, 2025

“Carnival”, Vultures 1, and 2024’s Fascist Rap

It’s no secret that Kanye West is a raving neo-fascist. I’m not here to explain the comments he made in 2023 regarding black people, Jewish people, and other comments praising…

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January 8, 2025

The SoCC Writers’ Album of the Year 2024

2024 brought us one of the best years in music in recent memory, providing an insurmountable amount of high quality music. In fact, according to MusicRadar, more music was being…

Album Reviews, Albums of the Year

January 3, 2025

Notes on My Top 15 Albums of 2024

Charm by Clairo: Creative instrumental tidbits MAKE this album. Rich attention to detail. Thank you. More here.  2. Night Palace by Mount Eerie: Phil Elverum at his most RAW and…

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November 16, 2024

“NO TITLE AS OF FEBRUARY 13 2024 28,340 DEAD”

Magnificent. Harrowing. Important. There is so much to be said about this album yet it should be left to speak for itself. There were 28,340 dead as of February 13th…

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April 12, 2024

Tubular Bells and Becoming My Mother

Image courtesy of Spotify At first, I thought it strange.  Last spring I stumbled through the Denver Botanical Gardens alone during block break. I tuned out the hoards of families…

Album Reviews, Music

April 11, 2024

Let Them Eat Cake: A Soundtrack and Film Analysis of Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette (2006), directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst, boasts a spunky, youthful soundtrack of indie rock, pop-rock, and post-punk hits. The soundtrack feels like a character itself:…

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February 25, 2024

Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors II by Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors

so I was on youtube and I found this glowing, alchemical gem of premium lo-fi atmospheric black metal, straight out of the arcane unfathomabilities of madison, wisconsin. really takes me…

Album Reviews, Music

January 2, 2024

SoCC Writers’ Albums of 2023

From the rise of AI sound, trending musical theater to pop singer pipeline (as highlighted by Cat Zhang of Pitchfork), the comeback of shoegaze, and the Pavement and Sufjan Stevens…

Album Reviews, Albums of the Year