(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 12: 2024, A Slightly Past Mid-Year Review

I’m about halfway through the next Flower Kings review, and also have a bunch of catchup work, both paying and not, that’s kept me from regular posting this week. So we’re going to keep things brief for this week’s playlist, which is going to highlight tracks from my favorite albums of the year so far. Think of it as a mid-year report, except it’s coming about a month and half too late. And to make up for the lack of commentary, and because there’s so much to love about music in 2024, we’re expanding one time from 1 hours to 2 hours.

Lots of different styles and genres within, so let’s cut the chit-chat and get to it.

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Introducing (Un)Focused Definition

For the past few years over at Nine Circles I cobble together a weekly playlist called – fittingly if slightly uninspired – The Nine Circles Playlist. We put together a list of mostly new metal tracks the staff have been listening to over the course of the past week and, since I get all the picks and build the playlist in YouTube, I get to inject a few of my picks up front. But it’s by nature of the site limiting: if this site has shown anything (beyond my inconsistency) it’s that my tastes run far beyond, and maybe is even more prominently removed from metal (don’t worry, I still love it). So since I’m making them anyway, why not do it here, but really focus on the music I love in all its many forms?

Welcome to (Un)Focused Definition, a new weekly playlist.

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