Love Und RomanceA while ago (at least three months now), musician and fellow-penguin-fondler Nat JM asked me to do a review of her then-new single 
Manager. Pretty quickly, I decided I was rubbish at reviewing individual songs, or that any comments I'd make would be superficial if I didn't consider them in the context of the rest of her work. So, I took it upon myself to review her entire back catalogue, which is only about a dozen songs but, unfortunately for me, is increasing at a rate of two a month (which puts me to shame: I'm lucky if I manage to produce two crappy lumps of prose in a month).
It occurred to me yesterday that, since Nat's style of music is pretty unpolished, it makes little sense for a review of her music to consist of endlessly-polished prose. And so I decided to post my notes in their entirety, from which I had (eventually) intended to produce a “proper review” of some sort. There's a fair chance that, if I didn't do it this way, said proper review would become increasingly mythical.
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Manager. Pretty quickly, I decided I was rubbish at reviewing individual songs, or that any comments I'd make would be superficial if I didn't consider them in the context of the rest of her work. So, I took it upon myself to review her entire back catalogue, which is only about a dozen songs but, unfortunately for me, is increasing at a rate of two a month (which puts me to shame: I'm lucky if I manage to produce two crappy lumps of prose in a month).It occurred to me yesterday that, since Nat's style of music is pretty unpolished, it makes little sense for a review of her music to consist of endlessly-polished prose. And so I decided to post my notes in their entirety, from which I had (eventually) intended to produce a “proper review” of some sort. There's a fair chance that, if I didn't do it this way, said proper review would become increasingly mythical.
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