{ "schemaVersion": "v1", "slug": "why-you-should-listen-to-albums", "title": "Why You Should Listen to Albums", "kind": "solo", "listenUrl": "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/Why-You-Should-Listen-to-Albums-e2scgi0", "contentStartSec": 73.57, "publishedAt": "2026-10-14", "source": { "provider": "whisper", "model": "faster-whisper:base", "normalizedSchema": "v1", "transcribedAt": "2026-06-09T11:21:32.751Z" }, "paragraphs": [ { "startSec": 73.57, "endSec": 116.5239, "text": "What's good? Everybody, Scoobert Doobert here. Welcome back to love music more or at the end of the episodeI hope you love music a little bit more and in order to do thatI want to talk about one of my favorite subjects." }, { "startSec": 116.5239, "endSec": 141.78, "text": "I've talked about it a few timesBut I keep coming back to it because I think there are different ways of thinking about itAnd that is tension and releaseLike even with rhetoricpoliticsnewspodcasts All of it is trying to pull your attention andThen satisfy it with the releaseMusic itself" }, { "startSec": 142.98, "endSec": 172.42, "text": "Reflects this but maybe life itself does too. You know that you can think about the transition ofbirthconception birthLife death all of these those those changing of the seasonsThe the changing of the leaves and then finally they fallYou know that there's an element of that that makes it so satisfying soLife like so meaningful where when you make music even a pop song" }, { "startSec": 173.46, "endSec": 201.3, "text": "Like I've heard it. I've heard it described as a few different waysclimax and aesthetic ah-ha a the point of the song the you know the crescendoBut you can think about it a different way as inThat moment that the first leaf falls marking the turn of winterYou know like that's might be a little dramatic, but I think that trees are a cool way to think about it because the trees are green greengreen" }, { "startSec": 201.3, "endSec": 226.075682382134, "text": "And then all of a sudden the leaves start to change not all at onceBut it's a harboringer for something to come it creates a visual tension and it's beautiful because of that orEven in spring when you have a cherry blossomThere's a reason why that's such aimportant part of Japanese culture andEstetics is that the cherry blossom is fleeting. It is ephemeral, but because it is fleeting." }, { "startSec": 226.075682382134, "endSec": 235.46, "text": "It is beautiful It is an explosion of pinkBefore it falls in a flurry with the first wind of summer" }, { "startSec": 237.84, "endSec": 256.88, "text": "Why am I saying all of this? It's very impactful for creativity and art because a lot of times we think about this veryMyopically very like zoomed in very music theory type, you know thinking ororIn terms of tradition like whatever tradition you came up in or in terms of common chord progressions and" }, { "startSec": 258.56, "endSec": 263.96, "text": "Within those chord progression, there's a loop. There's a push. There's a thing that creates" }, { "startSec": 264.84, "endSec": 282.76, "text": "Dissonance and then it resolves and then it goes back and it cycles up again and it resolvesBut that's the tiny version the five to one for the music theory nerdsThe tritone to the to the root. But those those things those that's too small I" }, { "startSec": 284.28, "endSec": 313.52, "text": "Want to invite musicians and also music fans to zoom out a little bit and to think about the reason why we make albumsBecause albums allow us a larger palette by which to paint tension and releaseYou canHere's a good example one one of the things I'm working on for this next record that I'm doing is I have one of my mostVerbose wordy songs a bunch of lyrics followed by a song that is mostly instrumentalbecause" }, { "startSec": 313.52, "endSec": 324.8936811594203, "text": "I could jam that in one song. I can have a big old long instrumental bridgeOr I can respect the listener and say hey listen to the recordIt's intentional." }, { "startSec": 324.8936811594203, "endSec": 357.4, "text": "It's designed in the same way thatComposers wrote symphonies for a reasonThey wanted to take you on a journey because they couldn't fit all of those ideasinto one boxIn that level of respect Of the craft of the audience of the artist all around allows for a greater rise and a greater fallWhen you try to jam all that into two minutesWhich there should beIn the same way that like think of a TV show an episodic TV show" }, { "startSec": 358.4, "endSec": 367.4, "text": "That single individual episode should take you on a satisfying journeyBut the entire season should take you on a journey that blows your frickin mind" }, { "startSec": 368.48, "endSec": 376.29541463414637, "text": "That's what I think the artist should try to do with the album is to think not like I'm writingIndividual songs." }, { "startSec": 376.29541463414637, "endSec": 401.73, "text": "It's I'm getting to do the things that I'm not able to do within the medium of a single pop song andThe same thing applies to like a live set a set listThere's a reason why artists change keys and change grooves and have the pausesAnd like in between the songs where they tell a story about a song It's not between every single one of them where they introduce the band all of the things are very strategic" }, { "startSec": 402.05, "endSec": 420.55282352941174, "text": "Because they're trying to tell that storyAnd you're working within the medium itself to do thatBut I don't know if everybody intentionally looks at it that wayAnd I think that that's a detriment even from the fans perspective to be like hey, like I really respect that youYou'd put it in this order." }, { "startSec": 420.55282352941174, "endSec": 432.9290594957983, "text": "So I'm gonna listen to it not in shuffle Not to say that you can't make your own like I think that's a cool thing to like make your own playlist andMake your own cut of the album where you go actuallyI think this one sounds cooler after that song." }, { "startSec": 432.9290594957983, "endSec": 454.33, "text": "That's cool to have that intentionalityBut just to like leave it up to the random quote-unquote random Because my shovels always exactly the same the whole lame is that anyway digress, butTo leave that up to that that's kind of lame like either listen to the artist cut or your cutBut something in between that's not as satisfying and then also I want to talk about from the artist's perspective" }, { "startSec": 454.69, "endSec": 482.25, "text": "Different ways that you can find tension and release. So we just talked about the one where I was saying likeverbose not verboseBunch of words instrumentalYou can do different things with like rhymessoOne of the things I like about modern music is that we've broken free from the rhymeThere are plenty of examples of songs that don't have any rhymes orHave large swaths of the song with no rhyme" }, { "startSec": 482.89, "endSec": 503.93, "text": "They'll have repetition but they'll be using repetition in lieu of rhymeThat is niceIt's even nicer if you do no rhymes and then you pay it off with the perfect rhymeLike the not as like a perfect rhyme like a a a a a b b a couple it or whateverThat in terms of just like it's the right moment" }, { "startSec": 504.61, "endSec": 531.77, "text": "You want to highlight that thing you want to leave the listener hanging and then finallyYou knowhit him with theHit him with the haymaker IThink that those types of tension and release go beyond dissonance and consonants go beyond like fiveto oneEven like" }, { "startSec": 531.77, "endSec": 537.49, "text": "Songs that don't have chord changes or it just stays on one chord the entire time" }, { "startSec": 538.77, "endSec": 544.65, "text": "If you've been staying on one chord for an entire song that next song is going to sound wild" }, { "startSec": 545.37, "endSec": 555.73, "text": "Or if you stay on one song at one chord at the entire song until like the bridge and then the bridge you go offYou start playing a bunch of chords. Oh my god. It'll be like the listener rediscovered harmony" }, { "startSec": 556.73, "endSec": 586.42, "text": "In the same way that you can like just you can hang somewhere and you can feel it and wait a bit longerAnd then finally give him the point you know what I meanIt's that it's that feeling of your stomach on the roller coaster right before it's about to dropYou have to pay it off with the dropBut maybe hang there a little whileMaybe analyze different ways that you can go about that where" }, { "startSec": 587.06, "endSec": 591.7, "text": "If you're playing the same key and then you change to a very drastically different key or" }, { "startSec": 592.78, "endSec": 616.7740583554377, "text": "One of my favorites my absolute favorites the dissonance between simplicity and complexityAnd and I mean that holistically whatever kind of complexityLike I think there's a beauty betweenVery electronic as in there's no air being pushed. There's noComplex you knowWave forms or whatever going on." }, { "startSec": 616.7740583554377, "endSec": 641.66, "text": "It's all synthesized and so it it feels emptyIntentionally feels very electronic But then you cut in a moment of field recording like something that you went outInto nature and you just had your microphone and you grab some sounds of birds or wind or waterfall or whateverYou snap that in for a heartbeatOh my god the feeling that gives because it is the two is it's the tension between" }, { "startSec": 641.66, "endSec": 660.1229722921914, "text": "Electronica and the natural world coming at once or in the same way that you can do this with like reverbsSo there's plate reverbs where you have these giant metal plates andYou put the sound in between those two plates. They reverberate you put a microphone inside of there and you have to grab it outWe have virtual versions of that." }, { "startSec": 660.1229722921914, "endSec": 670.9, "text": "That sound almost exactly the sameVery cool artificial reverb That's one end of a spectrum and you have very natural reverbs like you actually in the room standing far away from the microphone" }, { "startSec": 671.7, "endSec": 698.58, "text": "Flipping in between those two is really satisfying and I'm not saying necessarily like putting them both at the same timeI'm like saying turning the page and letting the listener feel what it feels like to go from a virtual imaginedmodernSpace that could not have been conceived of a hundred years ago that was never heard by the human speciesTo something that feels visceral and raw and authentic" }, { "startSec": 699.58, "endSec": 710.77, "text": "Each makes the other stronger and you don't have to do it all in one songThat's why I believe in the album what I think you should believe in the album, too" }, { "startSec": 711.75, "endSec": 728.79, "text": "Is that that's the palette in which the artist is able to do that and the producer can reach for that bagI think that there's like a really unfortunate thing going on with our single cultureParticularly with producers. I am a producer, right? Like I I get paid to produce other people's music" }, { "startSec": 729.51, "endSec": 749.0624045801527, "text": "In collaboration with them, but a lot of what ends up happening is it's not like hey Scoob likeI want to do a whole EP or I want to do a whole album. It's like you'll hit me a singleWe'll see where it goesThat's fine. That's fun." }, { "startSec": 749.0624045801527, "endSec": 769.481956529914, "text": "It's a good challengeBut can you Imagine with that what that feels like for my end of like it feels like I'm fighting with one armI am an album person. I'm a volume personI like making music in context. It's like let's make a thingReal thing." }, { "startSec": 769.481956529914, "endSec": 786.28, "text": "Let's not just try it out becauseIt's missing the pointMusic is not just a two-minute long art formThe whole reason why music is impactful is that it takes up time It lives it breathes it dies" }, { "startSec": 787.16, "endSec": 807.84, "text": "The intro and the outro I've said this a bunch on this podcast. I haven't said it for a whileThat's the birth and the death of the song and you want to give it a satisfying birth and a satisfying death so that people want to come back and relive itOr at least you do like whatever it is like if people don't resonate with itThat's fine, but like you I want to listen to my own music and be like oh, yes" }, { "startSec": 808.36, "endSec": 833.5505, "text": "Not just that it reminds me of what it was like to make it thenBut that it reminds me of what I was trying to breathe life into the purpose of what I was doing even if it's a silly songIt's not like saying you have to bring like heaviness into everything. It's just saying like you are you're creatingYou're not just making content." }, { "startSec": 833.5505, "endSec": 846.35, "text": "You areLiving your life's purposeLet the people that make the music Do it with the depth that they can bringSo hire me for a full of" }, { "startSec": 847.35, "endSec": 854.07, "text": "Or at least like I think the artist if you if the artist at least has a vision for what they're going for" }, { "startSec": 854.99, "endSec": 875.26, "text": "They can communicate that producer you can be one of the puzzle pieces. That's fine. That's really cool actually. It's not just fineIt's like it's that that's one of the things I think is ismostEngaging and maybe the thing that will keep me coming back to music for the rest of my life" }, { "startSec": 876.1, "endSec": 889.5, "text": "Is I making a single song is just not that fun making a record is the thrill of my lifeBecause of the tension and the release because of the constantbackground of your brain humming" }, { "startSec": 890.38, "endSec": 911.4586240786241, "text": "And being like what does this want to be where does it want to go? When is it done?And also like I've been seeing this a lot online where people say records are done when you abandon them and I couldn't disagree with that moreRecords are done when you know they're doneAnd you need to like engage and believe in yourself andDevelop your taste and it might not be that good." }, { "startSec": 911.4586240786241, "endSec": 935.18, "text": "That doesn't really matter though If your taste is at the point where it's at and you say hey, this this is I'm happy with this feels good then it's donebutTo say that you just abandoned themThat like the the the disease of the perfectionistThat means that I think you're missing the point again like you're going too deep into is this EQ right like who cares" }, { "startSec": 935.18, "endSec": 952.1, "text": "Is that EQ right his right? Do you know how many saw how many songs and albums from musical history sound like crap or sound like crap on the wrong sound systemOr were made for a sound system like I've talked to some of my guests for like the enhanced buttonLike this is a real thing where" }, { "startSec": 953.14, "endSec": 975.42, "text": "The manor in which you are producing and listening may not be the way that people are listening 20 years from now with their brain in plant or whateverLike it's not about perfection in audio quality obviously want to have good audio qualityBut it's about like do you nail that tension and release do you nail the thing that you're going for number one is the journey the plot" }, { "startSec": 975.42, "endSec": 1002.82, "text": "You know like the reason for tuning into this story andDo you think about all of the different ways that you can do it like there's a tension and release in terms ofInstrumentation a trio versus an acoustic song versus an orchestraIt's like this stop making sense David Byrne thing ofYou have oneMusician come on at a time because why would you have the entire curtain open all at once?" }, { "startSec": 1002.82, "endSec": 1025.32, "text": "You want to give the audience the next thing and you want them to expect itAnd be thrilled by it in the same way that we're thrilled by those leaves changing or that Sakura in its fleetingMoment but capturing just a bit of that in all of the manifest ways that we can I can do that with audio effects" }, { "startSec": 1025.96, "endSec": 1033.24, "text": "Like how distorted how saturated all these things that's all tension and release every single choice is tension and release" }, { "startSec": 1034.52, "endSec": 1041.8661093247588, "text": "But if you if you look at it too narrow and you say oh, I like I want this in a sound coolIt's like nobody cares if it sounds cool." }, { "startSec": 1041.8661093247588, "endSec": 1067.64, "text": "They want to they care if it moves them or takes them somewhereI'm like I'm not coming from this being like I'm a millionaire big producer whatever like I may never be that's okay But this is what I believe in these these are like my values as an artist and this is the reason why I'm making right now because I don't need toThere's like I could do something else, but I'm compelled to because I believe in the value of" }, { "startSec": 1069.12, "endSec": 1079.32, "text": "Capturing the way that I hear music the way that I see itSo that I can give back to this thing that gave everything to me and then hopefully by you listening to this" }, { "startSec": 1080, "endSec": 1084.12, "text": "You can be a musician that maybe takes a little bit whatever your version of this" }, { "startSec": 1084.88, "endSec": 1092.68, "text": "Go take it and run with it and if you're a fan like give the artist a space to do it and let him take you on that ride and" }, { "startSec": 1094.36, "endSec": 1108.7944289693594, "text": "Let music come out of the background every once in a while. Let's find for it to be in the backgroundI do that too, but likelet itLet the artist do their thingThere's a lot of them will surprise you." }, { "startSec": 1108.7944289693594, "endSec": 1131.52, "text": "I appreciate you listening to thisThis has been something that's been on my mind and it is fun to share itIf you enjoyed this podcast, please tune in next week We've got guest pods every other week and then these so little little rantsEvery other otherIf you'd like to hear my music to see if I'm full of crap, which I might be" }, { "startSec": 1132.12, "endSec": 1142.88, "text": "Dents on your taste you can go to scoobertdoobert.pizza, which is a very legitimate and real website, scoobertdoobert.pizza and you can find all my likes just Google me or like spotify me" }, { "startSec": 1143.92, "endSec": 1167.84, "text": "Also feel free to tell your friends about the pod share this with some people if you think like hey this person needs toGet with my albumThis spot you'll hear the value of the tension and the release like crossing the dial maybe send it their way and yeahSubscribe five stars all the good stuff would really help me out and help out this pod and hopefully spread the good word of love and music moreThanks for listening" } ], "correctionsApplied": [] }