Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we’re talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.
Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question ‘Spin It or Bin It’ … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.
To retain the tension, I won’t share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.
Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.
Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
We are officially 62 months old. Welcome to the latest episode of This Is Not Happening, an album of the month podcast.
In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month Guy brings back an artist that we first featured in early 2022, Joy Crookes. Joy is tackling the tricky 2nd album syndrome with her latest release ‘Juniper’.
In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month, we stick with theme of ‘Joy’ and ask each other to brings tracks that bring us joy and happiness.
—–Part 1 | Joy Crookes | Juniper —–
In January 2022 we reviewed Joy’s debut Skin. The consensus was that we loved it and it became a very important and deeply album for some of us. In terms of expectations, the bar was raised when Joy released the single ‘Pass the Salt’ in January of this year.
So what did we get with this sophomore release? Well, a lot is the simple answer! Perhaps not a big leap stylistically but a massive long-jump forwards in terms of song writing and performance. Will that be enough for the pod … have a listen and tell us what you think.
Watch a great reaction video from Jakar right … HERE
Read a great interview with Joy in Glamour magazine … HERE
Listen to a deeply personal and revealing interview … HERE
—–Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | ‘Joy’ —–
Songs that bring us ‘Joy and Happiness’ sounds like a simple theme to find music for … well, not for one of us who revels in the dark and miserable side of music. The selections are predictably brilliant!
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
Welcome to Episode 61 of This Is Not Happening, a monthly music podcast.
In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month it’s Joey’s choice and he’s picked Essex Honey, the latest release from Blood Orange, UK born and raised, New York based creative force.
In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month the theme is ‘Colours’
—–Part 1 | Blood Orange | Essex Honey —–
Devonté Hynes, AKA Blood Orange, is a Grammy-nominated English singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, and director based in New York City. Devonté is a talented human being, playing multiple instruments, he is a consummate songwriter and an incredible producer.
His latest album, Essex Honey is quite something. We all agree that this is very intelligent, impressive album created by a unique artist. But that doesn’t mean that we all like it. We get stuck right into that in this episode. Have a listen and let us know what you think.
This is ‘This Is Not Happening’ and it’s time for ‘Album of the Month’. The album is Essex Honey by Blood Orange and the Month is Oct. 2025. Some months we have obvious choices for AOTM, some months we have few options and some months it’s impossible to choose an album as there is an embarrassment of riches to pick from. This month we struggled with the latter but settled on Essex Honey. I am VERY glad we did but others are less so!
Devonté Hynes, AKA Blood Orange, is a Grammy-nominated English singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, and director based in New York City. I forgot all about the fact that he was in Test Icicles and was previously known as Lightspeed Champion before transitioning into Blood Orange. Devonté is a talented human being, playing multiple instruments to a standard where he plays for other artists; I think he is a consummate songwriter and an incredible producer. He also directs film work, composes scores and soundtracks… the list probably goes on.
But let’s focus on Blood Orange. This is the 5th album from Blood Orange released over an extended period since 2011. The albums that I am most familiar with are Cupid Deluxe from 2013 and Negro Swan from 2018. Both of these were consdidered for AOTM’s back in the TINH blog days. I think my decision to not pick them was that they would be considered to ‘noodley R&B’ by some on the blog? And I think this will be the deciding factor in the reaction to Essex Honey … but it’s also 14 years later, music has changed, the world has changed and we’ve all changed too.
So what does this album ‘sound like’? By this I mean, can we easily describe its sound, genre and similarity to other music so we can help build a picture of this for people?
The quick answer to this is … no. But I will have a go. I think the first thing people will hear is ‘R&B’ but I think that is massively reductive and will actually put some people off who might really enjoy this. I think this is fundamentally a pop album, it is a pop album about grief, loss, time and home … so it’s not disco-bangers-pop. This is key. The abum was written after the loss of his mother and the exploration of this in his mind. How it made him think about time, home and loss. It’s contemplative, calm, reflective, artful and soulful, experimental-pop. It’s an album of melodic fragments collected and presented across 14 songs and nearly 47 minutes. Yes, it uses some of the melodic and stylistic tropes of R&B … but no more than it uses the structure and approaches of classical music.
Here are some hot-takes on what I can hear on this album (interestingly, only one of these is an ‘R&B’ artists);
Big Sufjan energy – ‘Carrie and Lowell’ (another album about loss which Dev listened to a lot after he lost his mother) but also ‘The Ascension’ and ‘Javelin’.
There are also big jazz vibes that occur in the transitions and the odd fragment that reminds of Andre 3000 in experimental but also The Love Below modes.
There are tracks that almost feel pure dream-pop guitar band a la early Deerhunter.
I’d add Andorra-mode Caribou in this thought too.
The tell-tale melodic style of Tuung pop up every now and then.
The use of guitar (and how and where it is important) reminds of Blonde by Frank Ocean
The album is predominantly instrumented by guitar, piano, synths and a wealth of woodwind, brass and strings. Guitars are very important to this album. But for me the most important instrument is the human voice, Dev’s and his fellow contributors. There are so many vocal sounds and energies that wash over you at moments and pull you in at others.
Pretty much ever ‘track’ has a transition into the next ‘track’. These transitions are often fragments of other melodies, abstract sound experiments with acoustic instruments or a bit of everything. These transitions will be make or break or break for some in my opinion. Do these transitions create an angular energy in an otherwise very calm, lower-energy album or do they represent an interruption in the flow of energy from one amazing pop melody to the next.
As with any album, there are layers to the listening experience with this album. It is beautiful music to accompany you through life – working, cooking etc. But there is way more to this than it being beautiful background music. The next layer down is to listen in headphones on a calm walk, I found this to be a hypnotic and pseudo-therapeutic experience, thank you Dev. Sitting down and listening with lyrics reveals another layer and is massively rewarding.
There are moments of pure lyrical beauty that are always accompanied by pure melodic beauty. With some artists, it feels like they think of a clever lyric and shoe horn it into the melody or the other way round – on this album it feels like this cmbinned beauty just flows out of Mr. Orange. A perfect example of this is on ‘Somewhere in Between’ where the lyric ‘Light was just for hope and it keeps flickering, and I just want to see again’ is paired perfectly with the songs melodic hook.
For me, there is a classical, symphonic approach to the strucure of this album. It feels like an overture, with repeated phrases, themes and motifs appearing throughout. These motifs reference themselves across and throughout the album. This coupled with Devonte’s skill as a writer of melody, lyrics, his experimental approach to instrumentation and accompaniment makes this at the very least, a very clever, fascinating album created by a very clever, fascinating artist.
If you like it or not might be a different matter. I love it.
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
TINH happening is officially 60 episodes old. Happy 60th to us.
We’re missing a team member again this month. David is back and in the hot seat, Guy is off making beautiful memories with his family.
In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month it’s Davide’s choice and he’s picked Moisturizer, the sophomore release from Wet Leg, British Post-Punk, Post-Pop band that were previously catapulted to fame by their break out single Chaise Longue. Tune in to find out what we all thought.
In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month the theme is ‘English With An Accent’.
—–Part 1 | Wet Leg | Moisturizer —–
Wet Leg, AKA ‘that Chaise Longue band’ started their career with a bang. Their first single Chaise Longue became a global hit and created a massive amount of attention. Could they ever break the curse of being a novelty, one hit wonder band …? Well, yes is the simple answer. Their first album proved that (partially) but this second album smashes that idea out the park. Listen to the episode for more detail but there’s a lot of positivity about this one.
Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think. Here are some links that we mention on the pod or think could be useful to explore;
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
Welcome to Episode 59 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast. We’re missing a team-member this month as Davide is on an Anglo-French diplomatic mission.
In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’. We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?
In Part 1, Nolan is in the seat. He brings Little Sim’z new album, Lotus. This was a reluctant choice when he made it. He thought it was an interesting album but he was far from loving it. Has that changed in a month?
In Part 2, we celebrate New Music. What are our favourite new tracks from the last couple of months?
—–Part 1 | Little Simz | ‘Lotus’ —–
This is the 2nd Little Simz album we’re reviewed as our little Album of the Month collective. Last time round was here debut album Grey Area which would all pretty much loved. I think our experience of her work since then has varied significantly. This album has been launched in a quite dramatic and controversial environment following the collapse of Simz’ relationship with former collaborator Inflo. What does Simz sound like without Inflo? Let’s find out.
Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think. Here are some links that we mention on the pod or think could be useful to explore;
The theme this month is New Music. Simple. What new tunes are we loving? There’s LOADS of amazing music out but we also need to pick something that we think the rest of us will vote ‘spin it’ to.
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
This month’s podcast could be re-titled ‘How to Disagree Nicely. Welcome to Episode 58 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast.
In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’. We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?
In Part 1, Guy is in the seat. He brings Lucy Dacus’ new album, Forever is a Feeling for us to consider and discuss.
In Part 2, we celebrate the summer, it was hear, it has already gone. Nolan’s specialist subject, the Summer Night track is our theme for Spin It or Bin It.
—–Part 1 | Lucy Dacus | ‘Forever is a Feeling’ —–
We have varying levels of experience and history with Lucy Dacus but Guy has fallen for this album in a big way. It’s Lucy’s 4th solo album and sits alongside her work as part of Boygenius. The album is a really easy listen, it can sit with you on repeat for a significant chunk of time. The question that we explore is, can penetrate beyond a nice listen … opinions vary but at least one of us has this in their album of the year list at this point in the year.
Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think. Here are some links that we mention on the pod or think could be useful to explore;
The theme this month is ‘Summer Nights’. Which tracks give us big summer night vibes. Ever since I’ve known Nolan he has always immediately given songs a season, I’ve never known anyone think as ‘seasonally’ about music. So no pressure but we play Spin It or Bin it with his specialist subject!
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
This month we struggle with very conscious bias when we discuss how much we love Perfume Genius’ new album Glory. Welcome to Episode 57 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast.
In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’. We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?
In Part 1, Joey is in the seat and basically bangs on about how much he loves Perfume Genius.
In Part 2, we celebrate contemporary queer music and play Spin It or Bin It with the theme. Joey’s track is unfairly and poorly treated … as is David’s but two other bangers make up for it.
—–Part 1 | Perfume Genius | ‘Glory’ —–
I love Perfume Genius. Always have … barring something horrific happening, I always will. I love him so much that I get nervous when a new album comes out. And this one is a belter. But is it for the fan-people or is there enough to attract and entertain newcomers?
Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think.
—–Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | ‘Contemporary Queer’ —–
Music has always been massive to the Gay and Queer community and has always been an interesting area of crossover. Has it changed? What ever, we’re here to celebrate.
We’ve all had an album and/or artist that we’ve wanted to discuss on the pod. Often, as written many-a-time, the record release gods simply don’t play ball. With me and Perfume Genius, this is not the case. I’ve actually carefully avoided bringing any of Michael Hadreas’ albums to the pod. He’s mine. I don’t feel the need or the desire to share him. Of course I am joking, except that I’m not. Get your grubby little fingers of my guy.
My relationship with Perfume Genius goes back to late 2010. I had just had my first child, I had a lot of spare time. Pitchfork featured the single ‘Mr. Peterson’ (from PG’s debut album ‘Learning’) on their top tracks of the year playlist. I fell in love immediately. It was odd. It was deeply personal. It probably spoke of child protection offences. It made me cry. I felt it deeply and believed in it and of the Perfume Genius construct.
Then in 2012, PG released ‘Put Your Back N 2 It’. A 12 track, sub-33-min sophomore release. It was brutally beautiful, honest and for me, perfect. I listened to it an unhealthy amount and I still do. However, this is the album that ruined PG for me. There is no way that any album he makes will do to me what this album did. I kind of only ever want to talk about that album on the pod … but that ship has clearly sailed.
PG has since released at least 5 more studio albums including this one, Glory. The 2 albums that followed ‘Put Your Back N 2 It’, ‘Too Bright’ and ‘No Shape’ are incredible. The two that followed ‘Set My Heart …’ and ‘Ugly Season’ are both amazing albums in their own right. But none were ‘Put You Back N 2 It’ and none will be. Basically, what I am saying is, I get properly nervous when a new PG albums is inbound.
Exploring ‘Glory’
On March 28th, Glory was released, 11 tracks (thank you), 41 mins (thank you). The release, as is now common, was preceded by 3 singles, all of which were special. ‘It’s a Mirror’ is full bombastic Hadreas pop and felt similar to lead singles off Too Bright, No Shape and ‘Set My Heart …’, ‘No Front Teeth’ felt different and odd and angular, Clean Heart was, Michael in full on ‘Crooner’ mode which we’ve heard on previous work and has become something of a trademark. What was less special, is that it became clear that these were the 1st 3 tracks on the album. I don’t like this, I have a problem with this. It makes your experience with the album odd on first listen and it perhaps warns of an odd track sequencing?
Despite the album opening with the 3 singles, sequenced in order of release, the album feels like it’s perfectly put together … if you spend enough time with it and learn to understand the flow. We’ve reviewed another album that was similar recently but I can’t recall which one.
The first ‘new’ track is track 4, ‘Me & Angel’ which is Perfume Genius in full on, traditional, piano driven big ballad mode. This will feel super familiar to PG fans and is reminiscent of some of the tracks that I adore on ‘Put Your Back N It’. The ‘angel’ motif is not new in PG songs either, one of the many little ‘easter eggs’ for those in the know. PG has this habit of writing songs that feel like fucked up hymns, with irreverent angles and beauty available for those willing to give themselves into it.
Next up is “Left for Tomorrow’ that is an atmospheric track with haunting, wafer-thin, wispy vocals that seems to mesh with the organs and synths that provide the space filling sounds that drive the track. It’s a beautiful thing. There is a real, live, band like feel to this track, a perfectly synced jam session feel to the recording. It’s beautifully produced and instrumented and provides an amazing end to Side A.
The start to ‘Side B’ is the track that opened this album up for me ‘Full On’. This is one of the two tracks that almost feel like they could belong on ‘Put Your Back N 2 It’. There’s a raw, stripped back energy to the track that I can’t put my finger on. It’s actually quite complex with woodwind and lucious harp plucks but there is something about how his voice is recorded that brings back memories of his 2nd album. I am here all day for US High School imagery and the line ‘I saw every quarterback crying, laid up on the grass, nodding like a violet’ is a line that you could write a whole film around when it’s set in the atmosphere of this track.
Capezio is an odd, wonky, druggy, David Lynch movie soundtrack song. It re-introdces us to ‘Jason’, a character that has their own PG track named after them (on ‘Set My Heart …’). I feel very at home with PG when he is in this ethereal mood. I don’t think he writes and records tracks like this without first releasing more experimental and challenging albums like ‘Ugly Season’.
Dion, returns to piano driven balladry but with a large dose of the ethereal, again, similar to tracks like ‘All Waters’ on ‘Put Your Back’ (which is synth driven not piano but still). The soundscape that accompanies the piano threatens to take over, the discordance almost boils over but never does, it resolves perfectly.
… and it resolves and returns you to my favourite track ‘In a Row’. Yes, you’re right, its a song about being kidnapped and driven around in the boot of a car. Michael talks about the song being about seeking thrilling experiences, making poor choices. The atmosphere that he creates is both spine chilling but at the same time is utterly euphoric. Given the subject matter and his history of drug abuse, addiction and recovery, the final result is a master class in telling complex stories, in simple terms. The line ‘take me the long way round’ is a stroke of genius song writing. I love love love love love this track, the only thing I don’t like is that it only last three and a half minutes.
The album ends with two tracks that bring the energy down a little from the euphoria of ‘taking the long way round’ a thrilling if utterly dangerous experience. ‘Hanging Out’ returns us to the (even)dark(er) side of Perfume Genius. The track is both small and massive at the same time. This and the final track Glory might be a step into weirdness too far for some. They are both beautiful but in a much more brutal and visceral way to the tracks like Angel & Me.
I think Ugly Season was PG practicing and perfecting the journey into the weird, the wonky and the odd. The end of this album makes the whole thing feel like a soundtrack to a film that we’ve not seen but exists in Michael’s head.
Festive Greetings from This Is Not Happening and welcome to our year-end, 2025 wrap-up episode. As always we split the pod into Part 1 and Part 2.Part 1 features our Top 10 favourite albums of 2025. We use a proprietary algorithm to create our list our collective favourite albums, we're talking nascent data-science excellence! Every year it throws up some surprises as our tastes are so different (and in some ways so similar.Part 2 features a festive Spin It or Bin It. We each bring a candidate for track of the year and ask the age old question 'Spin It or Bin It' … will anyone really bin anyone elses Track of the Year? Probably.To retain the tension, I won't share any spoilers here … other than to share a 40 track playlist of some of our favourite 2025 tracks … here.Whatever you do at this time of year, who ever you do it with … have a good one.Please join us in January where we will go back to the usual format of Album of the Month + Spin It or Bin It.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
We dispense with the niceties this month and discuss an album where we have quite differing opinions. Welcome to Episode 56 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast.
In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’. We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?
In Part 1, David, resident ‘Pop Being’, has the pleasure of presenting an album from one of his genuine musical obsessions. ‘Saya’ the latest release by Saya Gray.
In Part 2, following the theme of ‘Saya’, break-up and heart-break, we play Spin It or Bin It with the simple theme of ‘Heart Break’ with no additional rules!
—–Part 1 | Saya Gray | ‘Saya’ —–
To say David is a Saya Gray fan is something of an understatement. He has been championing the strange sounds of Saya for nearly 3 years. Nobody’s really sure if this is her debut album or not but that’s not important. It is an album and an artist that has divided opinion on the pod. 2 of us love this album, 1 of us doesn’t, and 1 of us has had such a busy month at work that we have no idea what they think pre-recording.
Regardless of how we feel about this album individually, we all think it’s an album that deserves a listen. Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think.
Was music originally created to express heart-break? Probably not but it definitely feels like it when you start looking for your favourite tracks that embrace the subject. We’ve chosen a track each that may not be what you expect.
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