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Album recommendation: "Best buds," by the band Mom Jeans. Alt-rock. Warning: It's not that good. The singer has a really whiney voice, it swears a lot, the drumming is pretty excessive for my tastes, and the guitar work sounds pretty homogeneous across songs. BUT. I'm obsessed with it!!! I've listened to this album everyday at work or while homeworking for the last several weeks! Oh man. There is so much emotion packed into this album it's addicting. I'm a pretty lucky guy and don't have a lot of problems I deal with on a day to day basis, but this music makes me want to have problems just so I can whine about them at the top of my lungs. Most of the songs are breakup songs (I think?) and talk about smoking and beards. I have nothing to do with any of those things but I'm here listening to the songs just like "FREAK YEAH MAN!!" The album features some cool stuff like cool time signature changes interspersed throughout, a...

Book recommendation: The Stormlight Archive (series), by Brandon Sanderson. Sci-fi/fantasy. Warning: these books are extremely long (each book is well over 1000 pages), and deals with loooads of characters and complicated plots. BUT. These are my favorite books I've ever read.  I just finished the 3rd book, Oathbringer. What I loved about it is that each main character deals with huge mental health problems, which makes the story super real. A king suffers from horrifying PTSD, a soldier deals with depression, another person deals with schizophrenia, a another with drug addiction, someone else has extreme self-loathing... you get the idea. The author doesn't come right out and say "okay and now it's time for the chapter about depression," but very subtly exposes details about their issues little by little until you figure it out. If you like the show Lost, you're the kinda person who would dig these stories because seemingly unrelated detai...