Appreciate the thoughts! (and the lovely feedback) I copied the formatting of a few newsletters I read thinking it was at least one known and understood standard. Some people see colours, I see album / artist - always have. I'm not sure I could rewire my brain to change it now (that's on me, of course) . . if you start a pile-on style campign though, I may relent.
FWIW, I think if you just turned the bold text at the start of each paragraph to something more like a subheading, it would help a lot with the groupings!
Lol and Substack changed all my soft returns into paragraph breaks, and removed my double line breaks so everything's flattened to the same spacing. Bah.
that guy in your story is absolutely horrifying, may we win the battle against this new banality of evil
Wow – "a single curator telling us all what TV shows and films we should watch, and which music we should listen to." What a bleak perspective on art.
Brilliant story Andrew, what an a-hole that guy was!
I have two unsolicited comments on the newsletter format, two things which I find confusing when I read it:
First, having the player *below* the writeup somehow means that I'm always looking at the wrong one.
Second, having your own subheads as AlbumName - Artist adds to the confusion for me.
As an example, Bandcamp Daily has
Artist
AlbumName
Player
Text.......
https://daily.bandcamp.com/acid-test/the-acid-test-january-2024
Feel free to ignore of course! And I want to reiterate how much I love that you're doing this.
Nobody shoud ever ignore you, Peter!
Appreciate the thoughts! (and the lovely feedback) I copied the formatting of a few newsletters I read thinking it was at least one known and understood standard. Some people see colours, I see album / artist - always have. I'm not sure I could rewire my brain to change it now (that's on me, of course) . . if you start a pile-on style campign though, I may relent.
Haha I will never create a pile-on! Well... I hope not!
I must admit I haven't seen other newsletters doing this kind of thing precisely, but here's The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33955-best-new-punk-music-lost-legion-drunk-mums-ikhras
and a "kind-of" from Stereogum:
https://www.stereogum.com/2243925/best-albums-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/
FWIW, I think if you just turned the bold text at the start of each paragraph to something more like a subheading, it would help a lot with the groupings!
Lol and Substack changed all my soft returns into paragraph breaks, and removed my double line breaks so everything's flattened to the same spacing. Bah.