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Leo Aram-Downs
Mar 21, 20246 min read
Jacob Collier vs. Rick Rubin
What do you owe the audience? Should they have a say in the thing you make? Should the audience as an entity be factored into the...
Leo Aram-Downs
Mar 19, 20245 min read
My 10 Favourite Albums of 2023
10. billy woods & Kenny Segel - Maps Favourite Songs - FaceTime, Agriculture, I'm super late to the Billy Woods party, but this album is...
Leo Aram-Downs
Mar 15, 20244 min read
A Year In Time 2023 - Dog Walking Edition
2023 was a good year. Even before I take the existential look in the time-tracking mirror (I'm writing this blog as I discover the...
Leo Aram-Downs
Feb 13, 202315 min read
Six Months of the Light Phone II
Young Man Yells at Cloud
Leo Aram-Downs
Jan 4, 20239 min read
Top 10 Albums of 2022
Yet another album list, you know what it is. As per usual, totally unordered apart from album of the year. Cool? Cool. Let's talk about...
Leo Aram-Downs
Dec 12, 20224 min read
A Year in Time - 2022
Local man shares overly-detailed breakdown of hours spent on things
Leo Aram-Downs
Jan 17, 20216 min read
Top 10 Albums of 2020
2020 was, most certainly, a year. Tons happened, all while, simultaneously, absolutely nothing happened at all for lots of us. It was...
Leo Aram-Downs
Dec 30, 20207 min read
A Year in Time: 2020 Edition
2020 was the year none of us expected, with a profound impact on how our time is spent. This is a breakdown of how my time was spent.
Leo Aram-Downs
May 28, 202037 min read
My 50 Favourite Albums of the 2010s
This was a blog post I meant to make during the Year of Everything, but I never really felt like I had the time to sit down and consider...
Leo Aram-Downs
Dec 30, 20197 min read
A Year in Time 2
The last song of the Year of Everything comes out tomorrow, and now is the time to do a bit of reflection. But my plans for an actual...
Leo Aram-Downs
Dec 26, 20195 min read
The Year of Everything: A Reflection
At time of writing, there is only one song left to put out. Honestly, I never really thought this far ahead to the project actually...
Leo Aram-Downs
Dec 7, 201916 min read
Top 10 Albums of 2019
Much to my weird mixture of sadness and relief, 2019 is coming to a close. It’s been exciting, eventful, and exhausting and I wouldn’t...
Leo Aram-Downs
Jul 11, 20194 min read
Quarterly Review 2
Given the decline in frequency of these blogs being written, it feels like mere minutes since I did the last quarterly review. That’s...
Leo Aram-Downs
Jul 4, 20194 min read
Tour Feelings
So I’ve just gotten home after the best part of 2 months’ worth of touring with a theatre production. We did a week in Sweden and then 5...
Leo Aram-Downs
Jun 1, 20195 min read
as is. - Song Breakdown
I’m pretty sure I just wrote and released my best song to date. I don’t even say this flippantly, I have a lot of criticisms when I look...
Leo Aram-Downs
Apr 19, 20195 min read
The Case Against Perfect Pitch
I feel like there's a lot I need to try and qualify before I just jump straight into a topic like this. First and foremost, I have...
Leo Aram-Downs
Apr 13, 20192 min read
The Noise.
Let’s talk about success. And more importantly, let’s talk about a phrase that’s been thrown around at more seminars and masterclasses...
Leo Aram-Downs
Apr 5, 20194 min read
Quarterly Review 1
I can’t believe this is already a quarter of the way through. So much planning and writing and work is already out in the world and it...
Leo Aram-Downs
Mar 8, 20195 min read
The Numbers.
It’s coming up to the first quarter of the way through this project, and I’m starting to think about the kind of things I want to include...
Leo Aram-Downs
Mar 4, 20192 min read
Normality
One big takeaway from this project so far has been a kind of discovery about how I value routines. A lot of the things I want to try and...
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