In an effort to give myself the opportunity to write about music more often, I'm "launching" a new "feature" on The Luxury Yacht Review. I never review new albums outright on here, for a variety of reasons that I won't get into, but I would like to discuss music, as it's of equal importance as books to me — and so, I will post editorials instead of reviews, focusing on pivotal albums in my collection, albums that are significant with regards to how I listen to music. The first of these two overlapping features, Seasonal Albums, is meant to discuss albums that highlight how I listen to music. Certain albums, regardless of when I discovered them, create extremely vivid soundscapes for me, transporting me to a time or place or often conjuring a whole season. Many albums with this power have greatly affected my mindset and preferences for music, and their evocative power makes them far more than just "entertainment" to me.
These seasonal albums will, for obvious reasons, often overlap with my second, also loosely structured feature — a sort of unranked Top 50 Albums of All Time deal, generalized here as Pivotal Albums. Instead of actually making such a list and stressing about its order, by posting editorials at random, I can feature albums that likely would place without having to pit them against one another. These albums will provide a window into my constantly-shifting musical tastes, as they are the albums which have determined that taste and then weathered my peculiar, inscrutable whims. They may yet fall or rise in my favor with time, but these are the albums which will continue to influence me until I turn into a crotchety old man who only listens to Led Zeppelin while sitting on his porch drinking beer.
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