I remember the day I heard the news. Not the news of Bowie’s death, but of someone else’s. I must have been 8 or something. It was a weekday morning. I was in my grandparents’ house, my dad would drop me (still waking up) there at 7 a.m and my mom would pick me up around 7 p.m. I always had to stay with them during the weekdays, since my parents worked so much. I had school in the afternoon. I had none of my cousins to play with me that day and there were no cartoons in any of ... read more
IGOR is my favorite album of all-time. It represents probably the exact moment when I not only became a Tyler fan, but really also a music fan. It did so many things that I had never heard before, it made me feel so many things I never felt before. Despite its overwhelming melancholy, it made me feel happy and safe in its embrace, something I find myself needing even today.