A year ago, Stereolab were a weird blank spot in my 90s musical knowledge (like, I have no idea how I hadn't gotten into them before). Now I'm dropping all sorts of money on pre-orders of all their stuff.
Writing a novel set in the nearish future, and one character is writing her PhD thesis analyzing music from the first couple of decades of the 2000s. Its title? "The Sharp Sound of Dull Math: Independent Music and the Rise of the Monogenre, 1999-2019)."
10-year-old daughter having a sleepover birthday party in the living room tonight = no turntable time for me today. I think I'll survive, but it's gonna be close.
I hate when an album arrives with a dish warp but it doesn't affect how it plays, so I spend way too long trying to decide whether it's worth contacting the label for a new one or not...