Album Month Update

Okay... I need to take a day for myself today, thus I will not be racing to the library before closes to get stuff posted (if I had a laptop or computer at home this would not be any part of the issue, but I digress). It will all get caught up, don't you worry. 🙂

I'm doing Album Month... my blog for myself and sharing in case anyone wants to come along for the ride. I'm not a 'content machine' nor do I get paid for this, I'm just posting and doing because I want to and need to for myself. Today, I need to be at home and take care of my other needs. I'll be back tomorrow. ✨

Take time for your self-care, folks, and be kind to yourself. Don't buy into the lie that productivity is what gives you worth. You are worthy just as you are. Be good to yourself. 

Much love and light to you all. ✨✨💖✨✨

~*~

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24: Slowdive - Slowdive

 

Slowdive - Slowdive

2017 - Dead Oceans

Welcome to Album Month - August 2022's Day 24 feature! It shall be of shoegaze legends Slowdive and their fantastic  2017 selt-titled comeback album. Get on your Doc Martens on and let's gaze, shall we?

23: Talk Talk - It's My Life

 

 

Talk Talk - It’s My Life

1984 - EMI\EMI America

Welcome to Day 23 of Album Month - August 2022! Today I'm doing a very long overdue exploration of the band Talk Talk and their album, It's My Life. Come on with me. I have tea and chocolates.

22: Rush - Clockwork Angels

Rush - Clockwork Angels

2012 - Roadrunner

And the final week of Album Month has begun! To kick it off, I have the final new album by Rush, 2012's fantastic Clockwork Angels. I'm 10 years late to this party, and, boy, am I kicking myself for it. 😏 Let's explore it through my feels, shall we?

17: Kristeen Young - The Beauty Shop

 

Kristeen Young - The Beauty Shop

2022 – test tube baby

Welcome to Day 17 of Album Month - August 2022, folks! It's the middle of the week and we need something to wake up those who might be drifting off a little. Thus, today's feature is the talented, creative, and unique Kristeen Young and her latest album, The Beauty Shop.

Update

I posted updates on social media on Monday but forgot to post here, my blog. 🤦🏻‍♀️ With family in town and a lot going on, this week's Album Month posts are delayed. 

16: Tool - Ænima

 

TOOL - Ænima

1996 – Zoo/Volcano

And Day 16 of Album Month - August 2022 is now encoded into the interwebs. Therein I explore the second album, Ænema, by the band Tool. 

15: BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY

 

BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY

2019 – Babymetal/BMD Fox/Toy’s Factory/Amuse

Album Month - August 2022 Day 15 has materialized, and the feature shall be the incredibly fun and awesome BABYMETAL and their 2019 release, METAL GALAXY.

Day 14: Bonus Content!

Truth be told, I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do for today's bonus content, hence it being so late it's already tomorrow in other places. 😏

I think that I would like to continue celebrating my chosen Iconic Women (as they are truly Iconic to me), but, this time, I'd like to share my favorite songs from each of them. Since I am once again posting from the minimal Blogger phone app, the formatting isn't at all what I prefer, but oh well...

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 🎶

~*~

Day 13: Iconic Women Week Recap

And Iconic Women Week has come to a close. Album Month - August 2022 shall keep going, but this week was tremendous with not only talent but incredible inspiration for me. (Definitely check out the previous days' posts.) These women are all part of what I had wanted to be should I ever be in a space to make music my life. (I honestly still want that, but that's another post for another day.) Wherever I may be at with their music at any given time, these earthly goddesses are always here inside my musical being, plucking at strings in whichever way suits them, and I wouldn't want it any other way. They are iconic to be, and I hope maybe, if they are not already, they may become iconic to you.

~*~

12: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

12: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

1978/2018 – EMI/Harvest/Sonopresse/Portrait

We have reached the end of Iconic Women Week here in Album Month - August 2022, and, although there is no competition here at all (they are ALL incredible goddesses in their own right), I feel I have saved perhaps the most deeply influential one for last: The incomparable Kate Bush. We close out the week with her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside.

 

11: PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

 

11: PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

2016 – Island/Vagrant

Today's foray into Iconic Women Week features the artist that I call my '5th Element' artist: the authentic and extraordinary PJ Harvey. I will be talking about her nearly controversial 2016 album, The Hope Six Demolition Project.

10: Bjork - Utopia

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09: Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean

 

09: Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean 

2021 – Decca

 

Welcome to Day 02 of Iconic Women Week here in Album Month - August 2022! (Day 09 overall.) Today we are featuring one of my earthly Goddesses, Tori Amos, and her most recent album, Ocean to Ocean. Come swim with me. Tori will keep us afloat. ;-)

Day 08: Neko Case - Hell-On

 

  

08: Neko Case - Hell-On  

2018 – Anti-

Week 2 of Album Month - August 2022, also to be known as Iconic

Women Week, which is a celebration of my favorite female musical

artists. So.. Welcome to Day 08 and a peek into my brain about

Neko Case’s 2018 album, Hell-On and my connection with her music.

07: Bonus Content!

Welcome to Album Month-Day 07: Bonus Content!

 

Today we shall see what a couple of my other favorite

tracks of the week were, and they are good ones!

06: Album & Song of the Week

 

 And the Album and Song of the Week honors go to...

 

05: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

05: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

2016 – XL

Day 05 of Album Month is here!, which means we’ve reached the

last album of the week! Why not end the first week with one of the

UK’s all time best bands ever, Radiohead?

Today I’m taking a dip into A Moon Shaped Pool.

04: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

04: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

2013 – The Null Corporation/Columbia/Polydor

 

Welcome to Day 04 of Album Month - August 2022! This time

we’re taking a trip to 2013--which was 9 years ago already--and exploring

 Hesitation Marks by Nine Inch Nails. You’d think that I would have heard it by

now, but here we are. To quote my favorite track on the album, “I only have

myself to blame.” Life happens and time gets away from us, I suppose.

But there’s no time like the present, so here I am, finally diving into

 this Reznorian offering and seeing if I click with it. Won't you join me? 

03: U2 - Songs of Experience

 03: U2 - Songs of Experience

2017 - Interscope/Island/Universal Canada

On to Day 03 of Album Month 2022: U2’s 2017 offering, Songs of Experience, the companion to their 2014 album, Songs of Innocence. I have to say… I really like the album cover.

02: Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point

 2022 – Concord

For Day 02 of Album Month 2022, we shall talk about one of the big comeback stories of the year, Tears For Fears, and the very personal album that came from their reunion, The Tipping Point.

 

01: Ghost - IMPERA

2022 – Loma Vista

 

 

 

And here we kick off Album Month 2022 with an album I have listened to

A LOT since its release earlier this year. Typically I try to listen to albums I

don’t fully know (or know at all) when I do an album month, but I love this one

so much I could not not feature it. So why not start with it?

It's Here! Album Month - August 2022

It's Album Month - August 2022!

Yes! It's back!

 

It's been quite a while, and now I feel it is time to resurrect this

awesome feature. And I shall have a much better time at it now, too

(I hope). Read below the page break to learn more.