The Audiomnivore was inspired by a something I said without thinking.
I am a regular at the Roundhouse, as part of the Paul Hamlyn membership scheme, and I got talking to a staff member who has since left. Collin asked me what I listened to.
"I listen to everything!"
It's an easy thing to say, but it's difficult to mean. What I meant, and what I suspect most people mean, is that I don't see myself as linked to any particular genre or subculture. Or that there were some songs I liked which fell under drastically different genres to what I normally listened to. Or something.
The fact remained that most of my music fell under the rather broad heading of rock. In that one conversation, Collin introduced me to trip-hop and was instrumental in getting me more strongly into jazz. I cannot thank him enough.
After offering to write for artists, I was overwhelmed with responses, all of drastically different genres. How was I going to find a unifying theme between all of this? I didn't want to leave people out.
So now you have it. The Audiomnivore is designed to showcase music to help you broaden your horizons. Reviews take each song individually, out of the context of genre, as something maybe not everyone can enjoy (there's no accounting for taste!) but as something everyone can be open to. A sort of music taster menu, as it were.
Bon Appetit!
I am a regular at the Roundhouse, as part of the Paul Hamlyn membership scheme, and I got talking to a staff member who has since left. Collin asked me what I listened to.
"I listen to everything!"
It's an easy thing to say, but it's difficult to mean. What I meant, and what I suspect most people mean, is that I don't see myself as linked to any particular genre or subculture. Or that there were some songs I liked which fell under drastically different genres to what I normally listened to. Or something.
The fact remained that most of my music fell under the rather broad heading of rock. In that one conversation, Collin introduced me to trip-hop and was instrumental in getting me more strongly into jazz. I cannot thank him enough.
After offering to write for artists, I was overwhelmed with responses, all of drastically different genres. How was I going to find a unifying theme between all of this? I didn't want to leave people out.
So now you have it. The Audiomnivore is designed to showcase music to help you broaden your horizons. Reviews take each song individually, out of the context of genre, as something maybe not everyone can enjoy (there's no accounting for taste!) but as something everyone can be open to. A sort of music taster menu, as it were.
Bon Appetit!
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