The Recent Year of Listening
Picking up from where I left off on last year's music blog. Spotify clocked me at 122,250 minutes of music in 2024 with my top artists being Sleep Token, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, and The Cure. Here's how the year went, and some reflections. I spent most of January digging into Sleep Token's This Place Will Become Your Tomb . Every song on the record is great and matched the dark January days. This was also my introduction to the current metal scene and how Sleep Token has been disrupting it with their exploding popularity and blending of seemingly dissonant genres. I also got into No Doubt's hit record Tragic Kingdom. It has to be impossible to not love No Doubt with their electric performances and Stefani's vocals. The next few months were filled with my two favorite Cure records, Wish and Disintegration . I had never listened to Wish all the way through and instantly regretted that it took me so long to do so. Robert Smith is truly an outstanding songwriter, e...
