I had written the review of Dýrðin a week before I actually posted it, but I had never found an appropriate time to publish it. That’s actually one of the great things about blogging: it shows that the whole idea of writing one definite mini-essay of 300-words about a record, which probably worked best for printed magazines in the pre-internet era, is just not the way I think about music. And I’m quite sure, it’s no one’s way.

But once, I too thought this was the only way to write about music. So when one day I was incredibly bored with my own life and at the same time felt very lonely about having no one to talk about all those fine indiepop records with, I started this online magazine. It was based on five reviews a week, one interview a month, ‘news items’ to connect them and, quite importantly, way too much free time. I’m glad you’re probably not able to read those first things I wrote, as the pretentious yet meaningless writing would probably shock you. Still, starting the thing was one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.

That day was exactly five years ago today. Things have changed a lot since, but both my life and the website have gotten so much better and I think they both contributed to the improvement to the other. I wanted to mention that.