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Weekly Recap (July 14th - 20th, 2025)

On Monday  and Tuesday   I listened to 2/3 of The Sugar Hill Records Story playlist (originally released as a box of 5 CDs) for my current chapter in Can't Stop Won't Stop.  The sound is getting quite monotone, but at least I'll have a great picture of what old school hiphop sounds like... On Wednesday   I walked to the library and listened to The Stygian Rose by Crypt Sermon . It was alright, old school prog metal. As with all old prog bands, I wish they'd experiment more. Prog is one of the oldest subgenres in metal and there's only a certain amount of melodies people can write for the electric guitar. Later, in the evening, I finally listened to GNX by Kendrick Lamar . I've been putting it off, because the album was praised so highly it felt intimidating, like I "have to" get it or I'm a failure as a hiphop newbie. Which is silly. If I don't get it now, I can simply come back to it in a decade or two and understand it better then. But I can...

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