Album Rating: 5.0

There's nothing wrong with turning soft (serious self-justification alert here). I started listening to Elliott Smith only recently, and so glad I did!

Album Rating: 4.0

'Every year that goes past I’m loving the normie classics more and more now - coming out of the edgy phase :D'

that's just called getting old, haha

I went through edgy anti-radio snobbery, to Sputcore snobbery, to being 'edgy' by rejecting a lot of Sput classics because I can no longer edge in real life effectively enough (this is a joke, maybe) and simultaneously dumping on a lot of the entry level stuff I heralded as a young 'un

It's just morphed into something different I guess

Album Rating: 4.0

This is the one thing in life where I allow myself to indulge in a little bit of snobbery. Embracing it occasionally

Album Rating: 3.0

ah yeah, I'll always be a music snob, but I just indulge in some cheesy and/or basic music more than I have for a while



comforting I guess



the music I rejected as a kid is often the 'scariest' for me to approach now - which is more intimidating? Mongolian flute techno or INXS? for me I realised it had become the latter ...!



It feels like the 'final boss' of music for me. 'Shit, I'm starting to really really dig the Pet Shop Boys'.



Zak has even got me into the Levellers.

Album Rating: 4.0

Finally realising after like seven (7?) years that this doesn’t suck. 3 to 4 bump letsgo

Album Rating: 4.5

Never too late! Grew to love this one in those moments where Kid A and OKC were feeling too overplayed but I didn't want to listen to anything other than Radiohead.





"beerbelly-with-anxiety era"



I can't stop laughing at this and I don't know why.

Album Rating: 4.0

Phrase explains brexit.