Over-reliance on Genre

The pros and cons of loving one genre above the rest

The cover for Beach House’s record Depression Cherry, which is important later on. Via Sub Pop Records!

For a long time, I listened to almost exclusively rock music. Not particularly good rock music either — just the albums that my dad used to play in his car that then become nostalgic to me as the time since last seeming him grew from days to weeks and to years (now approaching a decade!) which was mostly stuff like AC/DC and Metallica. I…