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What your taste in music actually says about you
Does your taste in music reveal your personality or mental health? What the systematic reviews and mood studies actually found, and what they did not.
Music reviews, with the reasons attached
A review that says a record is "warm" has described your reaction, not the record. This site tries to describe the record.
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