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Mathias
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Last Active 01-10-23 4:01 pm
Joined 12-07-18

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The to-be-expected self-aggrandizing list about reaching an arbitrary number of comments on this site. Woohoo! But actually grateful for Sputnik for deepening my love of music and allowing me to still hone my writing skills. Started a pretty rigorous Master in Social Work program just a few months ago and this site has given me music as self-care like never before. List is favorite albums I never would have found without the site.
1Emma Ruth Rundle
Some Heavy Ocean


An artist I had never heard of with an album that's now broken into my top 20 of the decade. It's also introduced me to what is now one of my favorite styles of music.
2Lorde
Melodrama


Of course I knew and was familiar with Lorde, but I had mistakenly written her off as vapid pop music. The praise from this site made me reconsider and gave me my pop album of the decade. More than that, it taught me broaden my horizons by showing me to be way less snotty about popular music.
3Tigers on Trains
Grandfather


Admittedly, I found this album years ago when I would lurk here during high school. But it was music like this that actually encouraged me to join the site. Brilliant and thoughtful folk that, again, broadened my musical scope.
4Touche Amore
Stage Four


Something I never expected to happen was a love for "heavier" music (heavy is relative, but trust me when I say this was heavy for me). While I've still yet to break the glass wall into any sort of metal, post-hardcore has become a staple in a way I never anticipated.
5Courtney Swain
Between Blood and Ocean


I've tried to challenge myself to listen to at least one completely and utterly under-the-radar album per week and review it if inspiration strikes. That habit introduced me to not only what is potentially my AOTY, but maybe one of my album's of the decade.
6Jason Isbell
Southeastern


Even though I talk a big country game on here now, country was never a genre I even considered trying until maybe two years ago, again because I lurked this site and found Isbell. Country may now be my favorite genre, or at least the one I talk about/vouch for the most,
7Elder Brother
Stay Inside


The album that convinced me to join the site. Loved it so much that I had to login and write a review for it. Still love it and it's the album that launched my rediscovery of love for music, so nostalgia will be attached for quite some time.
8The Menzingers
After the Party


Along with using music as self-care, I also now use live shows as basically my ultimate form of catharsis. I've seen upwards of fifteen the past five months, with The Menzingers being the most recent.
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