Sensory Dispensary

“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”

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Sounds

Three rooms veer off from the main hall, each leading somewhere different. Deep listening sessions, weekly crate reports, and whatever song landed in my ear today. Grab a seat on the comfy couch. Bring your own black light.

The Needle Drop

Deep Track-by-Track Listening

I’m calling 2026 my Year of the Album, a return to the full album listening experience. Sometimes something I listened to calls out for a bit more attention than just being included in the Bin Dive. These are albums you haven’t heard but I think you probably should, albums you haven’t heard in years, and occasionally an album everyone’s heard but I have something to say about. I go through it track by track. Some songs get the full treatment, some only a sentence, some I’m just glad they exist.

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Coming soon. The first needle drop is being prepared.

Bin Diving

Weekly Album Roundups

Weekly album roundups posted every Monday. Brief comments and a rating for every full album I listened to the prior week. These could be old favorites, new finds, recommendations, or some random shit I found buried deep in my last.fm library that I have no recollection of.

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Coming soon. The crates are still sealed.

Random Song of the Day

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A Daily Dose of Whatever Hits Right

I call them random and sometimes they are, but mostly these are songs that popped into my head for some reason today. A conversation that reminded me of a lyric. A gem from an album I just listened to. Maybe an earworm, maybe a bad 70s radio staple I haven’t heard in 50 years. Could be a new find or an old favorite. Who knows what’ll show up.

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