Purist

A first listen with you is quietly forensic. You notice when a record commits to its choices and when it hedges, and hedging is usually the end of the conversation. There is no ceremony to your no; the record simply stops being played. But the albums that pass become fixed points, the standard every later candidate gets measured against.

The strength is certainty: your yes means something because it is rare and reasoned. The cost is that records which need three listens to open sometimes never get their second. What earns your attention is not surprise but coherence, and the discoveries that stick tend to arrive with their argument already visible.