New Music is Dead; Long Live New Music
A few reflections (or complaints, more accurately), a record giveaway, and an interview to round out an excellent music year
Hello friends! This will be my last newsletter of 2024. Thanks for letting me take some time off. Keep scrolling for the last record giveaway of the year and a hefty interview I did with Patrick Hicks that will hopefully keep you entertained until 2025.
Happy holidays! xo, Gabbie
It’s that time again… the end of year doldrums when I decide I never want to listen to new music ever again.
On the absolutely gorgeously-rendered graph above, I’m squarely in the “new music sucks” stage of my annual journey, when all the end of year lists are published and I start resenting any label that would even consider putting a record out in December.
New music is terrible, obviously.1 Why would anybody listen to it on purpose? There’s just more and more of it all the time and all of it is “crank wave”? Isn’t there already a perfectly good word for pos…
