Welcome

Just a brief introduction and a summary of how these reviews are going to work to get things started here. My name is Joshua Michael Crocker or as I am known by my writing  handle J.M.Crocker. I am currently and English major at the University of New Hampshire in hopes of becoming a teacher. My three main hobbies are reading, writing and music. I am happy that this blog will be able to combine those last two rather nicely. I've started this blog for fun mostly, but also as a way of getting my writing out into the world as I would love to be able to write for a living , yet am content to do it as a hobby for now. My reviews will be set up rather simply. As I have never been the biggest fan of point based review systems I will not be employing one in my reviews. As far as reviewing styles are concerned I have always been a fan of the style of video game reviewer Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw. At the end of his reviews he never gives the game he has reviewed a numbered score, but rather he just says whether or not he personally recommends the game. This is the system that I hope to employ with my music reviews. I do not intend to rank the albums I review in a numerical system, but instead I will merely inform the reader of whether or not I personally recommend listening to the album. So the reviews will consist mainly of me discussing both the pros and cons of the album and then declaring whether I would personally recommend that the reader give the album a shot. I will for the most part be discussing and reviewing recently released albums, but from time to time I will go back and discuss an old favorite of mine or if I start to get readers I may also review an album that I get requests to review. That is about it really. The schedule at first may be a little random as I will just be getting started and currently many other things are going on in my life. Many of the albums that I will be reviewing soon may not be albums that have just come out. They will be fairly new albums that I wanted to review when they first came out just never had the time to get this whole thing started. And that is about it. I hope that I can get some readers and get some feedback on my review style and the usefulness of my reviews.I look forward to hearing from anyone who wants to comment and look for my first review to be posted within the next few days