(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 53: Out The Other Side

I feel like this week has been nothing but playlists. Two last Saturday, one on my birthday, and I just wrapped the 391st playlist for Nine Circles. So I’m going easy this week, the better to focus on the heaping pile of new music that came in and do a little organizing so I can better find all the music in said heaping pile. New week will be the return of regularly scheduled programming – I’m considering alternating between some of the albums on the 52 Reasons Why playlist that haven’t already been covered and some of the said heaping new music pile.

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 35: The One With My First Great Album(s) of 2025

Used to be January was a bit of a dumping ground for music; smaller bands and releases living in the shadow of everyone’s year end lists and folks checking out all the stuff they may have missed. So I wasn’t expecting much, thinking I would just nestle down with some cozy 70s prog and 80s metal, hibernating until the “good stuff” starting poking out. Welp, that’s already started to happen, so we’re going to keep this trend of what’s been coming in the house and I’ve been listening to for the last week, and we’re kicking it off with an album I’ve fallen hard for, a surefire bet for my own end of year list. Or albums, I should say, because wouldn’t you know it? Yesterday Ty Segall had to go and release his third album in one 12-month cycle…

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