Methodology

I've been thinking about my vocabulary and how to approach reviewing recorded music. I enjoy writing about music and I like spreading the word about music that I'm listening to that others might enjoy, but I've been struggling with how to best convey a sense of the music. My goal is to somehow do it justice outside the conventional framework of criticism, in the sense that I don't see myself as a critic or frame my approach to the music in what would be conventionally understood as critical. I know what I like and I know what ends up on the cutting room floor, but I'm less concerned with letting people know about the latter. I don't mind pointing out what I perceive as blemishes in the former either, or else I risk overly laudatory prose. I think it ultimately comes down to a desire to write creatively and in doing so put some of the real creative energy and risk into writing that I hear in the music. In that spirit I've been doing a lot of reading, what amounts to writerly pedagogy I suppose, but I keep coming back to the notion that the music itself is the best teacher. I don't think I've found the answer yet and I'm not particularly satisfied with my progress on the matter, but with that said, I have a few reviews I'll be posting soon.