Curator · The Formalist
Leo Ferreira
@beatsbyleo · 40 logs · 7 followers · 5 following
Formalist · experimental · thin setting · intimate
Demo account. Albums, front to back, no shuffle. Films when there is nothing new out.
Archetype
The Formalist
Rates on craft and structure. With a streak of The Sincere.
4% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
They fall for how a thing is made. A cut, a sentence, a mix, a level layout: when the execution is exact they will follow it anywhere, plot or no plot.
Where it goes wrong: You can mistake polish for meaning, and miss the rough thing that is actually alive.
More about the Formalist
- Avoids
- Sloppiness, even in service of a big heart. A moving story told without care leaves you cold, and you feel slightly guilty about that.
- How they rate
- Your stars track craft more than feeling. You are one of the few who will give five to something you did not enjoy.
- Good company
- You get on with Prestige Hunters and Archivists, who share your respect for the made thing, and you argue happily with Empaths.
- Against the crowd
- You part ways with the crowd on crowd-pleasers that are built carelessly, and you rescue chilly, precise work the audience found cold.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More experimental than almost every curator. formal experimentationclassical in formformally daring 62%
- More thin setting than most curators. world-buildingsparerichly built 55%
- More intimate than most curators. scaleintimateepic 59%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver23 of 25
- Time traveller · Silver8 of 10
- On a streak · Silver35 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 50
- Conversationalist8 of 10
- Serialist6 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first.
Taste fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, read against every other curator.
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Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
Ratings by medium
The dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The taste map
Every curator with a profile, placed on the two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Leo Ferreira is ringed.
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Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbours are worth a look.
Leo Ferreira against the crowd
Every rated title with an audience score.
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Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How the character of what Leo Ferreira loved has moved, year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
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One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favourites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Formalist91%
In the community
- Kinder than 57% of curators
- Has rated more than 35% of curators
- More experimental than 96% of curators
- 4% of curators are Formalists
Among 631 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Emotional intensity barely moves their ratings.
Genres
- hip hop4.5★ · 3
- conscious hip hop4.5★ · 3
- art rock4.2★ · 3
- Indie4.1★ · 5
- Family3.3★ · 3
- Science Fiction3.6★ · 6
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 41 rated titles.
This month they were revisiting favourites and trying a medium you rarely log. From 15 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Hounds of Love1985
★★★★beatsbyleo
Side one is hits, side two is a drowning woman's dream suite, and somehow it is one album. Nobody else has made this record.
Mostly about the story.
♥ 2 · 9/19/2026
Hades2020
★★★★½beatsbyleo
Best soundtrack in games since Nier. The game is also good.
Mostly about the craft.
♥ 4 · 1 comment · 9/18/2026
Kid A2000
★★★★½beatsbyleo
It sounds like the year 2000 was afraid of itself. Everything in Its Right Place is the best opener of the decade and the album never spends the goodwill cheaply.
Mostly about the craft.
♥ 2 · 9/17/2026
★★★★★beatsbyleo
A short film you can rap along to. The sequencing is the story; skip nothing.
Mostly about the craft, the story, comfort.
9/5/2026
★★★★beatsbyleo
A jazz record, a funk record, a poem read at a funeral and a party. Nothing since has been this ambitious and landed. Alright is the anthem; u is the reason it needs one.
Mostly about the craft.
♥ 1 · 1 comment · 8/12/2026
Lemonade2016
★★★★beatsbyleo
A concept album that actually delivers a concept. Freedom is a hymn. Sandcastles is the one that gets me.
Mostly about the story.
♥ 8 · 4 comments · 7/26/2026
Blonde2016
★★★★★beatsbyleo
An album that sounds like a bedroom at 3am. Half the songs do not have drums and you do not notice. Nights is two songs and both are better than most albums.
Mostly about the craft, comfort.
♥ 1 · 6/27/2026
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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