The Recent Year of Listening
Picking up from where I left off on last year's music blog. Spotify calculated that I listened to 101,903 minutes of music over the past year. I continued my trend from 2024 and before of pushing into more aggressive metal music while simultaneously spending a lot of time with alternative and pop-style artists that got me into music years ago. My top artists, in order, were The 1975, Deftones, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Sleep Token, and Spiritbox. Here's how the year played out. January consisted of a lot of long, quiet days studying. As usual, during these days I listened to a lot of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scores while studying. I got into their Vietnam War score for Ken Burn's documentary. The tracks "Less Likely" and "The Forever Rain" have a desolate feel to them that is great for thinking. I also stumbled into Jason Hill's two scores for the TV show Mindhunter. Quite eerie and dark, but nice for work. Near February I got into Spiri...
