Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days > Status Update
Matthew Bizer
is 25% done
“I would have made the case to anyone within earshot that the love song was a sufficient form for an entire life's work; I think it's good to have strong convictions like this, and that it's also very good to practice the transgression of going against your aesthetic convictions and eventually overruling them entirely.”
The March chapter is 4 songs I know and love, and 27 songs I don’t know but will know now
— Apr 01, 2026 07:52PM
The March chapter is 4 songs I know and love, and 27 songs I don’t know but will know now
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Matthew Bizer
is 30% done
“All Hail West Texas is probably my most political album; its politics favor the people who don't have the means to escape the grinding gears of the system. Those are still my politics, which I was learning to articulate as things got, I think it's fair to say, worse.”
— May 04, 2026 08:40PM
Matthew Bizer
is 15% done
The February chapter is short, but this is starting to take a shape of documentation of the growth of a great songwriter over time. This month has 4 songs I already knew, two of which I’ve seen live, I think.
“An entire life can occur within the confines of a song, and be pretty vividly sketched by just a few details from a single morning within that life—or within two lives, maybe.”
— Mar 01, 2026 06:36PM
“An entire life can occur within the confines of a song, and be pretty vividly sketched by just a few details from a single morning within that life—or within two lives, maybe.”
Matthew Bizer
is 10% done
Month 1 of 12: mostly songs I don’t know; one I’ve witnessed live (Going To Alaska)
“Given the choice between giving away too much or not giving away enough, I will, in my personal life, always overdisclose, and, in my professional life, always hold something back. My professional self and my personal self are barely even on speaking terms, and who can blame them? They don't really understand each other.”
— Feb 01, 2026 09:40PM
“Given the choice between giving away too much or not giving away enough, I will, in my personal life, always overdisclose, and, in my professional life, always hold something back. My professional self and my personal self are barely even on speaking terms, and who can blame them? They don't really understand each other.”
