HeyJaredHoward Salmon
A Substack devoted to deep listening — long-form reflections on the albums, artists, and forgotten corners of music that still shape how we hear.
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Highasakite - Silent Treatment (2014) (opens the original)
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My latest video essay explores the world of the silent treatment through this 2014 album by the Norwegian band Highasakite. Silent Treatment is a record that explores these quiet wars fought behind closed doors, where the weapon is not what is said but what is withheld. Subscribe nowWritten entirely by Ingrid Helene Håvik, it maps, track by track, the power struggle, and the emotional ways a signal fails to cross from one person to another: a question sent t
Supermassive Black Hole (opens the original)
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I’ve never been one for social media; I guess I’ve never really felt comfortable sharing more than truly necessary. Nevertheless, I’ve usually had a presence. Today, together with Substack, the finest of all social platforms (please don’t screw it up), I’m also present on LinkedIn (full of AI slop), BlueSky (not opened it in at least three months), Mastodon (not sure which instance I’m on), and Instagram, where I actually have more followers but almost no real engagement beyond honey traps and g
Genesis — The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) (opens the original)
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Genesis’s 6th studio album, and the last one to feature Peter Gabriel. Many critics state this is their greatest work in any of their incarnations. I myself, feel that the crown goes to Selling England by the Pound.In case you didn’t know by now, I love a good concept album, and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is considered to be one of the best, if not the best concept album of all time. I’ve written about many of them on Substack, including, The Wall, Quadropheni
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (2012) (opens the original)
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By almost popular demand, and in celebration of my first year on Substack, here’s my first video album review. I hope you enjoy it!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="400" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPLY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good
Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath (1970) (opens the original)
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The opening of Black Sabbath’s debut album does not arrive. It descends — just three notes. A tritone, the interval that my music teacher affectionately called “the devil in music.” Later I would learn its proper name — diabolus in musica — the space between tones that refuses to resolve into anything comfortable. Here Tony Iommi plays them, each note decaying fully before the next arrives. Geezer Butler’s bass doubles the line an octave below. Ozzy Osbourne has not yet sung a word. <a class="im
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