Letter from the Music Reviews Editor

Dear reader,

For whatever reason, I volunteered to do this letter from the editor for this issue, and like most things when you're a college student, I got behind on it. I didn’t really know what to write about and thought, “oh, I’ll just get to it later,” but now that I’m writing it without anything really profound or meaningful to say, I sort of wish I had planned ahead. Not that I would think of actually deep or anything if I had even done that. I am the reviews editor, so naturally, I like writing about and analyzing other people's work or looking at things and trying to convey my opinion on them, but that doesn't really work for something like a letter from the editor. 

This is kind of like when you're writing an essay, and you procrastinate on it till like 11:30 on a Thursday night, and you get the Canvas notification that says that you have until midnight to turn in a 7-page essay, and you have to pad out that word count. Except with The Wake, I’ve never had that really happen, or at least I’ve never dreaded having to come up with what I want to say. We let people have the freedom to write pretty much what they want when they come in and pitch something, and that’s one of my favorite things about working here. You’ll see that especially when we do our upcoming last issue of the year here coming up. It’ll be our Bizarro issue, and no spoilers here, but it’s gonna be insane. 

Finals are coming up so just keep in mind when reading this issue and especially the Bizarro that everything you read and see here in the Wake is just another thing our staff is putting on their plates on top of everything else. Therefore, I’m guilting you, the reader, into sharing this and all the other issues with your friends and family because you know what it’s like when you have like 2 billion things to do on top of one another, and you’re 3 coffees in on the day with lofi beats to relax and study to blaring through your headphones as you’ve got 50 tabs open on your laptop. So next time you read our lovely student-run magazine, just have that thought in mind, and I think you’ll appreciate it just that much more.

Peter Nomeland
Music Reviews Editor