You should really write a post on "music appreciation" with some examples of tension, dissonance, and resolution.

Music posts have been an ongoing thing for ages here, I'm sure I've at least touched on this subject but it's definitely worth considering more directly so - even though music posts are consistently the least interacted with blogs I write. Reflects my life really lol. Anything I'm passionate about, nobody gives a rats arse about.

I love music but fail so strongly to articulate why and how

Tension-release is a big part if not the majority factor I'd bet. People never understood how I'd listen to Cradle of Filth every day growing up (hence my tinnitus I suppose). But it was the moments of operatic singing, the orchestral interludes and the poetic lyrics that were squeezed between all the screaming and banging that made the whole journey worth it.

_{and they were poetic:}

_{We've woven hearts a thorn arbour
Left tear streaked reason upon the shore
And bereft of compass, star or more
Set out for this World's end
Few at the prow, most slave below
Painting coal a perfect gold
But for all it's worth, the engines slow
Dead in the brine again}

Tension & release