Great tips. For me editing my own writing is always a challenge. Album reviews etc. are supposed to be quite short, which is tricky for me because I like to go into a fair bit of detail and talk about the artists' background/influences and so on.
Also, I am interested in World Music and writing about this genre presents its own set of difficulties. Often the sounds are unfamiliar, or only partially influenced by Western music traditions that we all recognise. So you have to be quite inventive with your comparisons sometimes and you are kind of making up the descriptive vocabulary as you go. At the same time you are aware you need to describe the music in a way that is down to earth.
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