Leo Aram-Downs
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...
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Leo Aram-Downs
- Dec 30, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 37 min
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, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 16 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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 20, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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...
Leo Aram-Downs
- Feb 23, 2019
- 2 min
The first roadblock.
I’ve formed a small habit of going to the beach and speaking into my audio recorder, and these rambles will form some of these blogs,...
Leo Aram-Downs
- Feb 12, 2019
- 6 min
Ballad of Oara: Project Breakdown
It’s time for a new project. It’s also time for a totally new direction by the look of it. Ballad of Oara was one of these things that...
Leo Aram-Downs
- Feb 7, 2019
- 3 min
I'm Not Ready
This title has been sitting in my spreadsheet of things I want to talk about, and I’ve always put it off because I’ve not really known...
Leo Aram-Downs
- Feb 1, 2019
- 4 min
Fun, and games part 1: Salt.
I'm surprised I made it almost 10 posts in and not talk about video games, but consider that streak well and truly broken as of today....
Leo Aram-Downs
- Jan 24, 2019
- 2 min
The "Cynth"
This week's song, "Slow Fall" has a kind of fun production thing mixed super super low and I thought I'd just quickly break down. It was...
Leo Aram-Downs
- Jan 18, 2019
- 9 min
A Year in Time
I’ve been making notes and thinking about this blog post for most of the latter half of last year, so being able to sit down and write it...