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Author: Jason Caesar

#58 – Vampire Weekend

Hey, it’s Friday again! That means that it’s time for the Weekend, but more on that later. You know what it also means? New albums are released today (for the most part). And do you know why that is the case? The US Billboard charts are based on tracking the album sales from Friday to…
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#57 – Two Door Cinema Club

Ya thought I’d forgotten about you, ey? Well, like the Pet Shop Boys put it: You were always on my mind. So, here we go: Now, I don’t want to be a bummer here, but this whole Easter thing is a bit of a gloomy ordeal, right? Not the chocolate eggs and bunnies, but the…
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#56 – Brand New

Sure, we are all familiar with the ocean, but did you know that Emo comes in waves, as well? Now, I say Emo and you may well be thinking skinny-jeaned kids with eyeliner and hair drooped into their face – some might even still have old photos stored in public Facebook albums matching something akin…
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#55 – Clairo

It was the first half of 2019 when I first heard of the genre “bedroom pop”. It was connected to a track review for the single release track “Bags” in the lead-up to Clairo’s debut album, Immunity, which would appear later the same year. While the term mainly refers to young artists using the tools…
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#54 – Róisín Murphy

‘Time is relative (to your frame of reference)’, a wise Swiss man once posed. E = mc 2 and all that jazz. You might relate when reflecting on how long you have been at Snowflake, and then cross-referencing that against the absurdly short time that LinkedIn lists in contrast. It feels a bit like the…
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#53 – Dem Land Tirol die Treue

Today (which is a bit more than a week ago now, since I automated this message), I listened to Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band’s “Trout Mask Replica”, which captures what I imagine it would sound like if an entire band were to fall down stairs, but they continue playing. The album has been called…
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#52 – School of Seven Bells

Not that anyone asked, but: There are a number of ways that I find new music – Yes, I follow our internal #fun-music channel, then I tend to check what album reviews Pitchfork puts out each day and give a listen to those that pique my interest. Once in a while, I will have a…
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#51 – Brandon Flowers

Now, we can watch the live stream and tell ourselves that, really, Vegas is a capitalist hellscape not worth the 14-hour flight for three days of jetlag-muddied exhaustion… But a comparative look at the weather forecast or stumbling over friends’ Instagram posts might have the potential for leaving us a bit uneasy – FOMO, I…
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#50 – Paul McCartney & Wings

There are many great things about music. One of the things that I enjoy particularly is that there is just so much of it. The sheer volume, not only of new stuff coming out, but also from decades and decades of backlog, is hard to fathom. It means we all get a chance to constantly…
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#49 – h hunt

Music post-production can be somewhat of a blessing and a curse at the same time. The conversation can veer from debating whether a live recording or the studio version are better, to artists sounding great on the album but being terrible live (cough cough Fergie cough) or the other way around, artists that you might…
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