For me, spending a lot of time immersed in the process of writing music often means that I don’t listen as widely or as intentionally as I’d like. The balance between making and consuming music is a funny one, because although I spend more time in my everyday life swaddled in noise than not, some part of me worries that if I’m too singularly focused on what I’m listening to I might rip it off unintentionally. Like many people, I’m also often using music as a backdrop or mortar for the cracks in the days rather than something I’m fully...