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January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Final Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]Archive
December 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
My RNZ Album Reviews for 2017
For the last couple of years I’ve been turning up once a month or so and reviewing a couple of albums on RNZ’s Afternoon Show with Jesse Mulligan. A couple of times there’s been a fill-in host, but mostly it’s been me with Jesse. He’s nice to talk with about music – he seems to […]Archive
October 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Third Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]Archive
July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Second Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m focussing […]Archive
May 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s First Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]Archive
February 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Death of the Album (has been greatly exaggerated): I Listen To and Review Albums. Still.
It’s in my interests to not believe it – I still like to write about albums. I still want to react to the album as a whole. There are plenty of other music-blogs/sites that plug singles but it’s never been something that’s interested me. I like to consume albums. I receive albums to review – […]Archive
December 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – November
Strange month, November. That election didn’t help things – and we lost Leonard Cohen! And more besides (Leon Russell, Sharon Jones…) I didn’t write a lot of album reviews. I did share a lot of other things though – new essays and blog-posts, think-pieces, album reviews of classic old albums…a bit of theatre reviewing too. […]Archive
November 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – October
A busy month, October. Lots of posts. I got into a bit of theatre-reviewing, there were some conversation and blog-post type things – not just the straight reviews. We debuted a new special guest with Retro Record Reviews and still lots of record reviews too – including plenty of albums by big names in the […]Archive
October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Album Review is Dead? Long Live Album Reviews!
There’s always the urge to tell a critic they’re irrelevant – and yet if you’re answering back, if you’ve stooped to battling with the critic you’re really only playing (into) their game; helping to prove their (continued) relevancy. This social media age suggests that everyone is a critic – we can now publish directly to […]Archive
October 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – September
Back in Wellington for the whole month after a couple of months of being in a few different places and on holiday and so on. Very much a head-down/bum-up sort of a month but most of the energy went to the podcast. That said I still found time to get in a few reviews, book […]Archive
September 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman