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Liner Notes (April 5th, 2025)

Posted by Jason Tate
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It’s a relatively short one this week. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.

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A Few Things

  • This week marked the ninth anniversary of Chorus.fm. I wanted to extend my thanks to those that subscribe and read this newsletter as well as everyone that continues to visit the website on a regular basis.
  • I had the first couple of days off work this week and then returned on Wednesday to an overflowing inbox. The rest of the week was playing catchup and I didn’t have a whole lot of time to listen to music on Friday. So, I’ve been trying to get caught up on new releases this weekend.

In Case You Missed It

Music Thoughts

  • The weather was strange this week, it was starting to warm up a little, and then got rainy again, then some more sun, then rainy. It led to it being a pretty heavy The Gaslight Anthem and Brian Fallon music week. Basically perfect for any weather, right? Blue jeans and white t-shirts forever.
  • I’ve had the time to check out two new things this week so far: I thought the new Wet album Two Lives was a solid indie-pop listen. I loved the debut, and found some good stuff in the last two, but neither really stuck with me long term. This one feels like it has a good chance. I also gave the that Knox album a couple spins and I understand there’s a level of cheesiness to it, but enjoyed the pop of it all. It’s catchy, has some clear pop-punk influences on it, but it’s totally saccharine fun. I can see this sitting in rotation over the summer.
  • I have heard good things about that new Momma album, so that’s next on my list to check out.

The Stats: Over the past week, I listened to 26 different artists, 34 different albums, and 349 different tracks (370 scrobbles). Here is my Top 9 from last week, and you can follow me on Apple Music and/or Last.fm.

Entertainment Thoughts

  • We started the second season of Severance. It’s as good as advertised so far. Loved the first season and it doesn’t look like they’ve missed a step.

Random and Personal Stuff

  • The stock market chaos and uncertainty was difficult to stomach all week. This is now the second massive collapse I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. (The first being 2008.) I don’t really have words to describe any of it. We’re all being pulled along by the whims of a madman. A very good portion of my life has now been Republicans causing economic crashes and Democrats coming in and it taking years to clean it up. Then it repeats. It’s indescribably depressing. Each Saturday I sit down and do a weekly review of finances, just to make sure we’re looking good on budget for the month, categorize transactions in Copilot (still my favorite budget/finance app), and get an overview of the landscape. This morning was just brutal and depressing. I know the math. I know the high probability of a rebound over the long term. I know the reasons that by the time I retire this will hopefully be a blip. But watching the drop and seeing the loss and going to work feeling like it’s for “free,” can only be described as: soul crushing.
  • March was pretty fun though.

Ten Songs

Here are ten songs that I listened to and loved this week. Some may be new, some may be old, but they all found their way into my life during the past seven days.

  1. Knox – All American Tragedy
  2. Wet – Rosy
  3. Grayscale – Kept Me Alive
  4. Origami Angel – Underneath My Skin
  5. MxPx – Let it Happen
  6. Brian Fallon – Honey Magnolia
  7. HAIM – Everybody’s trying to figure me out
  8. Lights – White Paper Palm Trees
  9. Trousdale – Secondhand Smoke
  10. Millencolin – Kemp

This playlist is available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Community Watch

The trending and popular threads in our community this week include:

The most liked post in our forums last week was this one by aiyana91 in the “Accountability in Music” thread.

Previous editions of Liner Notes can be found here.

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