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ottotune Live Reacts: Album 1

A long awaited return from a seminal NYC artist

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Jan 16, 2026
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Me, reacting.

Welcome to ottotune Live Reacts! (OLR for short.)

This is the debut post of a new column that has been around in different permutations for the past few years: what started as a way to flirt with my now fiancé is now a flagship music column. What a world!

Wait… what is this again?

Oh, you mean to tell me you didn’t pore over my last update post???

Every Friday, I’m going to post up at Variety coffee, after my 7AM boxing class, and listen to an album that releases that same Friday!

I will type out my gut reactions to each song as I listen and post them here! They will be much more candid, funny, acerbic, and raw than my usual posts. I won’t edit the reactions at all… once the album is over, pens down, writing stops.

I like to think of them as text conversations you can have with me as you listen to the album as well. Or a live Tweet of the album (RIP Twitter.)

Due to the high volume of releases, these could be records that go on to be highlights of my year or simply one and dones that I will never listen to again. I can’t promise they will always be good albums, but I can promise you that it will always be a new release and there are going to be fifty of ‘em. It will be a fantastic way for you (and me) to listen to some new music we may not have heard otherwise.

Disclaimer: there will be some mystique to these- I can’t tell you everything! That said, the albums won’t be listed until after the paywall but if this column sounds fun to you… please consider subscribing or upgrading your subscription!

And without further ado…

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