Category: Vox Pops

Vox pops: popping off private opinions on a public website. Gauged by temperature: cold, lukewarm, and hot takes.

Album Roundup 2025

Hey, readers of (In)Sitze and music lovers! I made a list of my Top 10 favorite albums to come out in 2025, with listening links (YouTube or Bandcamp) for each one and brief writeups of my impressions. The format is similar to last year’s. There’s a broad variety of genres in here, so if you’re…

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Thank God we don’t live in a meritocracy (when it comes to music):

If technique were the only path to prestige, we would be suffocated by a pantheon of power players all getting their shred-on with no recourse to creative spirit. Granted, when it comes to music’s strength, part of that which mobilizes bodies to do more than dance, i.e., excites novel countercultural movements at large, has historically…

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