# crescendoaudio.net > AI-optimized mirror of crescendoaudio.net containing 25 pages totalling 38,959 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://crescendoaudio.net/. Last updated: 2026-06-16T04:59:21.061Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [HI-FI JOURNEY](/content/site-root.html): Start your HI-FI JOURNEY Learn More, (71 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [album-review/2022/12/29/50-albums-of-2022-that-are-better-than-beyonce/index.html](/content/album-review/2022/12/29/50-albums-of-2022-that-are-better-than-beyonce/index.html) (1 words) - [album-review/2024/12/28/2024/index.html](/content/album-review/2024/12/28/2024/index.html) (1 words) - [album-review/2023/12/14/ten-years-later-the-study-of-culture-through-the-eurythmic-of-a-record-needle.html](/content/album-review/2023/12/14/ten-years-later-the-study-of-culture-through-the-eurythmic-of-a-record-needle.html) (1 words) - [album-review/2025/12/11/2025/index.html](/content/album-review/2025/12/11/2025/index.html) (1 words) - [10CC- How Dare You](/content/album-review/2020/11/24/shooting-from-the-hip/index.html): I share my listening space with my juniper bonsai and often my wife and dogfriend Curry. Tonight we sit and listened to the new Tunng album, throwback to the first album review I ever posted. I ponder the merits and discoveries of music in 2020. Tunng album “Tunng Presents... Death Club” despite pu, (706 words) - [Exploring Music During Quarantine](/content/album-review/2020/9/22/2020-not-the-future-wed-all-hope/index.html): We seem to be stuck in a dystopian science fiction film. Sports, movies, tv shows, dining and so many other forms of entertainment are unavailable for the time being, but records are still spinning, tubes are still glowing, and services are still streaming. Most of us with stereos at home are now fo, (789 words) - [Rap and Hip-Hop: An Inclusive Exploration](/content/album-review/2022/9/21/rap-a-rant-a-love-letter/index.html): A great deal of the older generation has zero tolerance for rap or hip-hop; it's an understandable stance given rap's inception truly began in 1977. By the time the Sugarhill Gang hit the radio, most(not all) baby boomers had already given up on experimenting with new genres of music, not to mention, (1,878 words) - [Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY! — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2019/8/16/jamila-woods-legacy-legacy/index.html): At this point in the summer last year I was stuck on the 5 Kanye Wyoming albums, released a week by week in June. Not a single other track in modern music was doing it for me, so I would listen non stop to the playlist I made for myself entitled “Kanye Summer Jams” Each week that passed and each new, (1,069 words) - [Overloaded — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2021/8/6/overloaded/index.html): So I’m losing my mind over the amount of life-changing new releases this year. Instead of consistent, short, and timely music reviews, you get an explosion of obsessive ranting based on the tipping point between depression and periodic creative flow.  Lump - Animal, (547 words) - [2021, I'm Still Spinning — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2021/3/10/2021-im-still-spinning/index.html): It is still early in the year, so please forgive my randomness, the fruit of this year's music have yet to ripen. Vindicated and betrayed by music awards for nearly 2 decades now, I care very little but still pay attention. So I eagerly await my disappointment with the Grammys.  Award shows, (667 words) - [Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer](/content/album-review/2019/1/18/janelle-mone-dirty-computer/index.html): As 2019 stokes it’s music release embers, I would like to reflect on my favorite Album of 2018. A Powerful voice in modern pop with a rich background in the hip-hop community. 33 year old Janelle dreamed of being a singer and performer from a young age, and has sighted Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz a, (733 words) - [March 27, 2019](/content/album-review/2019/3/27/james-blake-assume-form/index.html): 365 new albums every year, however tedious, bears truly original artists and albums that demand intimate listening and provide goosebumps and tears in return, James Blake is perhaps the most wonderful example of this. As modern music is a basic amalgam of all that came before it, I find the hardest , (718 words) - [Orville Peck – Pony — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2019/5/24/orville-peck-pony/index.html): As the earth warms with the coming spring, the desire for summer grows along with my excitement for spring and summer releases. One of my favorite music finds is and has always been debut album releases. A debut album has the opportunity to capture a time, moment, or whisper of fresh air that may pu, (666 words) - [Obongjayar - Some Nights I Dream Of Doors](/content/album-review/2022/8/31/a-triplet/index.html): A fantastic wave of alternative neo-soul that began its arc in the 2010s has reached a mesmerizing and unique crest and has begun crashing into the rocks of abstract creativity. What started with acts like Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, or Leon Bridges has slowly evolved into more experimental acts , (395 words) - [P Power — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2022/9/12/p-power/index.html): Each Friday, I dig my way through new releases, using a myriad of websites and muses to guide me. Week to week, a few releases tickle my fancy or completely blow my mind. Most of the time, there is one stand-out AOTW(Album Of The Week), and most other releases of that day are mediocre to good, occas, (403 words) - [Lump - 2018 — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2019/1/15/lump-2018/index.html): Before delving into the feeling of the album Let’s go through a bit of background as to what makes this project so special. Mike Lindsay, a co-founding member, composer and producer of the acid folk band Tunng. As well as a mercury prize winner for his work on the 2009 rap album Speech Therapy by , (391 words) - [Two-hundred-and-twenty-two days into this music year, I don’t know how many more slices of metaphorical cake I can eat.](/content/album-review/2021/8/12/overloaded-part-2/index.html): Two-hundred-and-twenty-two days into this music year, I don’t know how many more slices of metaphorical cake I can eat.  The Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night, (279 words) - [Spellling - The Turning Wheel:](/content/album-review/2021/10/4/spellling/index.html): Spellling - The Turning Wheel: I've been pondering how to write about this album for a while now; I feel unworthy. It feels like something I shouldn't even be sharing, something so beautiful that it's perhaps best-kept secret. I hope my writing can do this magnificent piece of art justice. Oakland, (318 words) - [Overloaded Part 3 — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2021/9/11/overloaded-part-3/index.html): Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita, (246 words) - [Black Flower - Magma — Crescendo](/content/album-review/2022/2/18/black-flower-magma/index.html): Black Flower - Magma (2022) The five-piece Belgium natives return for their fifth album with a brain-melting eight-track masterpiece that runs 45 minutes long. To put this album in the jazz, world music, or psych genre boxes would be a disservice to anyone reading this, So I seek only to liken it , (156 words) - [Isaac’s Album Reviews](/content/album-review/2019/1/15/meetisaac/index.html): My name is Isaac, and I listen to 365 new albums every year, while each album gets a full listen, only a handful of albums truly grab my attention. This is a self imposed journey that goes beyond genre and attempts to care, appreciate and catalog whats happening in modern music…., My name is Isaac, and I listen to 365 new albums every year, while each album gets a full listen, only a handful of albums truly grab my attention. This is a self imposed journey that goes beyond genre and attempts to care, appreciate and catalog whats happening in modern music…. 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