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May 28
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 ref...

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 concl...

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 ha...

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 def...

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 w...

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 19, 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 absolu...

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 th...

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 ju...

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 22, 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, lik...

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 ne...

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 wh...

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. It...

Leo Aram-Downs

Jan 23, 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 17, 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...

Leo Aram-Downs

Jan 11, 2019
16 min

Top 10 Albums of 2018

While it’s still acceptable to look back at the previous year, this and the next post will be somewhat more retrospective than I normally...

Leo Aram-Downs

Jan 3, 2019
5 min

Celeste: Project Breakdown

So the idea behind these kind of blog posts is to explain projects when their first songs come out. Given this is the first week of Celes...

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