Hello, and welcome to Private Leisure. Though this blog shares part of it's name with the independent label I run with my friends, Private Leisure Industries which you can check out here, the blog at least for now, will have little to no direct association with the label except for the fact that I'm behind them both. I just decided to start this blog because I enjoy writing about music.
As of now, I have no real ambition to do anything with this blog except to write about ten records each month. All it really means for a record to make the list is that I've listened to it and enjoyed it more than a couple of times in the last month. Though the records will be ordered from one to ten in each new post, the rankings are somewhat arbitrary. I chose to use the "Top 10" format because I really enjoy making lists and also in order to create a specific point for myself at which I can be done writing for the month, as attempting to write about every record I listened to in a month would be too daunting. Once a record appears on one list, it won't reappear on another even if I jammed it more than any other record on the list that month, otherwise, this shit could get repetitive real quick.
My tastes tend to lean toward the obtuse, the obscure, and often the incompetent as I'm much more interested in the feeling that's put in to and which comes out of music than I am in any traditional concept of 'talent' or what is good.
Generally I'm quite uninterested in any type of intentionally revivalist or retro music as well as most music that is made specifically to appeal to the broadest audience possible. My feeling is that if you're serious about making art of any sort, then you should be trying to move creatively beyond what's been done in the past. In short, I usually tend to regard artists who are only interested in creating within rigid, predefined parameters of genre or style as bland and uncreative.
If you think that makes me an 'elitist' or a 'music snob', that's fine; I'd much rather be thought of as an elitist, or a hipster, or a music snob, or whatever, because of the fact that I've thought about something enough to be able to confidently state my opinion on it than to be trapped in the confused and ambivalent mindset I have witnessed in individuals who really don't seem to know what they like or why they like it.
Really, I'm just a person that loves music and enjoys writing about it; if I tend to come off sometimes as an asshole with way too many opinions, it's only because I actually care about what I'm talking about.
That's it for now. Thanks, and enjoy the show.
