Tag: M. Ward

• Record of the Year, 2023

  2023 was the year where I felt like we didn’t live in a post-pandemic society, but a post-apocalyptic one. It’s just an apocalypse more like The Leftovers than Station Eleven or The Last of Us. The bad part of this mild apocalypse is that it didn’t really fix anything, it just made everything slightly worse.…

  Travis Packer

  January 7, 2024

  Music

  100 Gecs, A Savage, album-review, billy woods, Bleachers, Blondshell, Bully, Daffo, Dan Croll, Hotline TNT, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Indigo De Souza, JAWNY, Joanna Sternberg, Kenny Segal, Kurt Vile, Lana Del Rey, M. Ward, Mitski, MJ Lenderman, Music, Olivia Rodrigo, pop, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Slaughter Beach Dog, Sufjan Stevens, Superviolet, Wednesday

• Weekly Reflections #17

  In which we melt into anarchy. Reading: Finished The Dispossessed yesterday. I don’t know. It was totally fine. One of those polemics cleverly disguised as a novel. There were moments, but only moments, of real characters and plot, and a lot of characters serving as mouthpieces for what felt like a college seminar’s philosophical debate.…

  Travis Packer

  July 9, 2023

  Books, Reflections

  M. Ward, Reflections, The Dispossessed, Welcome to Wrexham