Recently Melbourne, Australia has been crowned the Record Store Capital of the World. I am one of the people fuelling the reputation of my city.

Economically, politically and socially the world has gotten so much worse. You'd think that'd create better music, but nah... 2025 was pretty shit too.

Hoping to move these into my collection list one day

I will always stand by my opinion that COVID destroyed music. Since then, everyone's poorer, sicker, less social and more pissed off at the state of the world. Here are the best (first-year) ...

Hectic year for me ➕ landing a new career and new partner, but also ❌ had to move twice and my cat died. What a fucking shitshow... I'm sure things will get better (ironic foreshadowing)

2022 was the best year this decade, with British/Irish Post-punk really exploding out the gate

Retroactively writing my top 10's for the last few years. 2023 was a pretty mid year in my opinion. Some bangers, but a lot of my favourite bands just skipped out on 2023

Spotify Wrapped roasted me with an embarrassingly low minutes-played 😢 Despite that, I found a lot of gems this year. Hopefully I will discover more in the future that I missed out on. May extend ...