2025 - The Year In Review - Music purchases
I'm torn between a feeling of "why am I doing this?" and "but I really do want to keep this blog alive in some form or other." So I suppose I'll go ahead and post the log of what I bought music-wise last year, though it may well prove to be my last post of the year. Maybe not. Who can say? The big obsessions I'll point to were Holy Motors, Cigarettes After Sex, and Miranda Sex Garden, and yes, I noticed a certain amount of sex on the brain, at least name-wise. Fact is, I've been listening to a good bit of stuff in a shoegaze/dreampop direction, noisy or ethereal or both, and all of those acts scratched that itch to one degree or another, with albums by all three acts getting a lot of replay, especially Holy Motors' Slow Sundown (2018) , MSG's Suspiria (1993), and CAS's eponymous debut (2016). None of these records are particularly new, though they were new to me, and Miranda Sex Garden is one of those acts that was defunct for a bit of a ...