Category: Reviews
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Vital Disconnect: Why The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights Will Outlive Us All
I’m not a betting man, but I’m willing to wager my left hand that fewer than 1% of the people reading this have heard of Thomas D’Urfey. I hadn’t either until I googled him four minutes ago, and I still had to check the spelling twice before I typed it above. He was a songwriter…
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Crucify the Insincere: The Hormonal Joy of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
People look back at their adolescence as a time when they felt more trapped, more free, wilder, moodier, etc. Whatever emotions typified your transition from childhood into adulthood, most can agree that they just felt… more. Body chemicals and neurotransmitters were still boiling down into a more functional cocktail. The intensity of being alive was…