A God-awful Small Affair

  So... I still exist. Truth be told: I've gotten so rusty with writing and formatting anything in a blog capacity that - coupled with the fact I'm now using a Chromebook instead of Windows - everything feels completely alien and impossible to use to me. On a personal level, 2025 has been... really difficult. Various health issues with my mum, all of my cats have now passed away, and a growing unease with my own health has all snowballed into a bit of a tough time. I'm persisting and doing everything I can, and one of the many things I've cut out of my life to allow time to unwind where possible was, unfortunately, writing! I've written many times about my insecurities with writing and comparing myself to established music sites and their journalism and whilst a big chunk of that was dissatisfaction with what reporting has become, a lot of it is also just personal uncertainty and a lack of conviction. Some days I will assert that a particular album is gorgeous, into...