Interdimensional Vortex

State of the Vortex: 2023 wrap-up

by Snyde on Wed, Jan 3, 2024

On and on it spins.

As we step confidently toward the Vortex’s upcoming 6th anniversary, the roiling seas of music discourse have never been more frigid. Even the safe waters of the Vortex are awash in digression and disillusion. The Aussies are locked in a state of perpetual mental human centipede, the Ameros continue to foist their collective mental illness upon the world across yet another platform, and the Euros barely muster a peep on their most active days.

State of the Vortex: 2022 wrap-up

by Snyde on Tue, Jan 10, 2023

On and on it spins.

2021 was pretty horrendous, musically. So bad in fact, that most of my music listening that year shifted away from the new releases and onto discovering past glories. That proved to be a much more rewarding experience than trawling through endless bandcamp pages searching for gold and going weeks and weeks without finding any. In 2022, I took yet another step further into my new role as a tourist, only listening to current albums that I truly had an interest in or had been brought up from the mire of the vortex.

SotV wrap-up 2022