Being that 2026 is the year of the album, I have been using a really great app for Mac called Albums by developer Adam Linder. His site seems to be mostly about the IOS app but it’s really great on Mac OS as well.
As the name suggests, it really focuses on the listening and cataloging of full albums and is full of great features to help you do just that. I pretty much use this as my primary front end app to Apple Music unless I need to remove things from my library or some other stuff that Apple just doesn’t support via their API.
It’s insanely customizable, imports your last.fm history and works as a scrobbler as well. Hard to think of anything it doesn’t do for the music fan like me who is tired of algorithms and is in the mood to just listen to Quadrophenia again…
Anyway, I was browsing through the app looking for something to play when I saw that Tim Easton had a new album out just at the end of February called fIREHORSE which I gave a listen to, enjoyed very much, and then realized it’s been a long time since I listened to one of my favorite albums of Tim’s, 2003’s Break Your Mother’s Heart. It is really astoundingly good and aside from being full of great songs, it has one of my favorite lyrics from the lead track “Poor, Poor LA”
A pack of dull monkeys could write circles around
That fourth grade, mumbly slang
Stream of consciousness, jive that you call a song
Is that going to be your story?
I always really liked this song though, the album closer called “True Ways”
Give this guy a listen, it’s worth your while to dig in to his catalog for sure.
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