No. 40 - Hot takes going steady edition 🔥💭
Another February, another #MWE Twitter challenge completed
Twitter is a dumpster fire these days, but that didn’t stop me from taking part in this year’s #MWE Twitter challenge. I am part of the problem!
Anyway, for those who don’t celebrate, #MWE or Music Writer Exercise is a challenged laid down by music writer Gary Suarez: for every day in February, listen to one full album you’ve never heard before and write one tweet about it.
I took part in 2019, 20 and 22 and despite the shit storm surrounding the platform over the last six months - Suarez himself bowed out this year - continued my sort-of annualish tradition. Heard a bunch of cool stuff I plan on digging into a bit more in the months to come and made my fair share of typos in the process. Hot takes wait for no proofreader!
Check out my thoughts below. I aslo made a playlist for handy cross-referencing.
Ian Gormely is a freelance music journalist based in Toronto.
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