just flow

 Around 2015, I discovered this album on the Digging Stopped blogger's Best Albums of 2014.  It's been a while since I thought I should write something about this album, and now I'm finally getting around to it.  In order to write something, I need to listen to it but it's hard album to listen to once from start to finish, so it's been much later than I expected. It's an hour long, and it takes a lot of energy to listen to it from start to finish. Some people compared writing to mountain climbing in the sense that it's an energy-consuming activity, and I think it's the same with listening to music. Listening to music may seem like someone is just doing nothing and relaxing, but there are some songs that take a lot of energy to listen to. Yesterday I listened to it while sitting on the steps of Times Square, and today I listened to it while lying in bed. I tried closing my eyes and focusing on the music, but it was hard to concentrate, so I kept fiddling ...

  I'm not good at critiquing because it takes energy and scares me (so I'm afraid I'll say this about how good you are).  But criticism must be sincere. People who don't listen can't criticize. You can only criticize if you listen. How can you criticize an album with 25-minute tracks without "listening to it all"? After all, criticism is a form of love.   I'm verbally harsh (I can't stand clichés), but I gave it 3 stars.  I listened to this album not badly...especially this track, PHAGE, which is made with spoken word technique. It's also interesting that there was a genre called spoken word in 2002.  It's so good to bring the symbiotic relationship between bacteriophages and hosts and gene cloning into music. And that material (gene cloning of bacteriophages) itself is not a common material by any means..."All pain is caused by desire" I wonder if it's cliché because of this one sentence (I don't even know when it came ou...