Mount Kimbie: The Sunset Violent
Listening Link
Genre/Description: dreampop indie rock? I don't know what, was expecting something dubsteppy James Blake-y and this was honestly better than I thought it would be
Date Listened: 2024-11-11 09:02:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: at work little blue bluetooth speaker on my desk - no one else was in the office
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: at work little blue bluetooth speaker on my desk - no one else was in the office
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Genre: dreampop indie rock? I don’t know what, was expecting something dubsteppy James Blake-y and this was honestly better than I thought it would be
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Anna Butterss: Mighty Vertebrate
Listening Link
Genre/Description: jazz
Date Listened: 2024-11-11 08:02:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: at work little blue bluetooth speaker on my desk - no one else was in the office
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: at work little blue bluetooth speaker on my desk - no one else was in the office
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Neat.
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Florist: Florist
A 2022 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: nature noise folk rock
Date Listened: 2024-11-09 16:17:26 -0700 MST
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Queued this up after Night Palace because Night Palace made me think of it and it’s lowkey one of my favorite albums ever.
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Mount Eerie: Night Palace
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: nature noise folk rock
Date Listened: 2024-11-09 15:09:26 -0700 MST
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock
I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.
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Mount Eerie: Night Palace
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: nature noise folk rock
Date Listened: 2024-11-09 15:09:26 -0700 MST
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Context/Location: putting away laundry, cleaning my room, and internet puttering
Format/Platform: Laptop / Apple Music
Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock
I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.
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Fousheé: Pointy Heights
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-09-13 15:45:14 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Possibly could be listening to this one obsessively, remains to be seen. Loved the unusual, diverse productions on some of these tracks, retro but fresh sounding: some seemingly lovers rock type stuff, some 80s electro Afropop-type stuff, etc. Feels almost like listening to some nuggets comp or some DJ on community radio with impeccable taste for old international grooves. Don’t know the story yet on if this is her own production work or if she collaborated with someone on this, but I guess I’ll look into it.
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Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-09-13 07:30:00 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Listened to this twice and I zoned out for the last few tracks both times. I don’t think I’m going to be replaying this as obsessively as I did PAINLESS.1 But maybe, if for no other reason than to figure out what I actually think about this album or if I can come to like it as much as her old stuff. Or if I add it to a playlist of her whole discography and start shuffling…
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The Strokes: Is This It
A 2001 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: trust fund rock and roll
Date Listened: 2024-09-12 17:12:51 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving, driving, driving
Format/Platform: CD playing in my car stereo
Context/Location: driving, driving, driving
Format/Platform: CD playing in my car stereo
For murky reasons I don’t understand, “Last Nite” has been in my head for days and nights now. The other morning, with the song in my head yet again, before walking out the door I scanned my shelves and pulled this actual decades-old-CD in its jewel case and took it to my car and slid it into my car’s actual CD player, and I’ve been listening to it on loop whenever I am driving ever since.
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Peel Dream Magazine: Rose Main Reading Room
Listening Link
Genre/Description: Sufjan Stevens and Stereolab vibes
Date Listened: 2024-09-09 14:43:09 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: working. driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working. driving
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
This wasn’t quite what I was hoping for after the first track I heard, but it is nice.
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Hania Rani: Ghosts
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-09-09 09:25:49 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: working
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Very nice. One from last year I never spent much time with, but a track came up on shuffle and I immediately wanted to hear the whole album.
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EKKSTACY: EKKSTACY
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-09-09 07:14:55 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving, working
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving, working
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
At first, it made me miss Craft Spells. (Whatever happened to Craft Spells btw?) Then I wanted to be listening to BLACKSTARKIDS, or the new Toro album, or I’m not sure what else.
But by the halfway point I had finally accepted this for what it was and not what I expected or wanted it to be, and I realized it was pretty nice.
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Toro y Moi: Hole Erth
Listening Link
Genre/Description: emo pop cloud rap?
Date Listened: 2024-09-07 15:43:44 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Toro y Moi’s music is just endlessly listenable to me, almost no matter what does, though it often takes me a minute to come around to whatever his latest flavor is. This album is no exception.
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Jpegmafia: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hip hop
Date Listened: 2024-09-07 15:23:25 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving along
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving along
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
I hear you went down down down down down down down down I hear you went down
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Tanukichan: GIZMO
Listening Link
Genre/Description: fuzz
Date Listened: 2024-08-13 19:04:09 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving and evening sunset thunderstorm
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving and evening sunset thunderstorm
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
I had to scroll back through my added albums to last year to find this again because I couldn’t remember this artist or album name. I only remembered the crunchy fuzzy 90s-altrock/shoegazish vibe and that Toro y Moi produced it and that it came out last year and that it had a dog and barfy slimy green and magenta letters on the cover.
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Toro y Moi: MAHAL
A 2022 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: psychedelic funk/soul
Date Listened: 2024-08-12 19:45:40 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving to work and such
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving to work and such
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
My father-in-law is in the Philippines on a work trip and there were pictures shared and discussion of the awesomeness of jeepneys and tricycles in the family chat, so that of course over anything else gave me a flimsy excuse to think of this album and listen to it again, as it doesn’t take very much to make me think of this album and want to listen to it again. And I surprisingly couldn’t resist also randomly sharing1 in the family chat a modicum of my enthusiasm for the album and Chaz' associated jeepney restoration project.
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Braid: Frame & Canvas
Listening Link
Genre/Description: midwest emo
Date Listened: 2024-06-02 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: in my head when I wake up in the morning, driving around, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: in my head when I wake up in the morning, driving around, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.
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Cloud Nothings: Final Summer
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: emoish indie rock
Date Listened: 2024-04-26 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or working, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving mostly, or working, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
This really syncs with my recent 90s midwest emo indie rock deep dive. In fact, I listened to this a couple of times, then listened to the first two Sunny Day Real Estate albums, started listening to Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, but wanted to come back to this again over all of that. [2024-04-27]
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Sunny Day Real Estate / Foo Fighters: Diary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape
Listening Link
Genre/Description: emo 90s altrock Seattle
Date Listened: 2024-04-24 00:00:00 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving, doing dishes, etc.
Format/Platform: phone / Apple Music
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Taylor Swift: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: confessional/dramatic singer-songwriter
Date Listened: 2024-04-21 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.
[ more ]
Beyoncé: COWBOY CARTER
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: genres are a funny little concept aren't they
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:27:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.
[ more ]
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: the most Vampire Weekendish ever
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:26:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.
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Saya Gray: QWERTY II
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: classic rock?
Date Listened: 2024-03-28 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
This her progrockiest yet?
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Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: lots of flute fretless bass synths and cool overdubbed singing - 'art pop'
Date Listened: 2024-03-25 11:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
I’ve been a fan of Julia Holter for a long time1. She occasionally creates moments that irritate me, but I kind of love her all the more for them.
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Braid / Polyvinyl Records: Braid 1998 Van Mixtape
Listening Link
Genre/Description: midwest emo 1990s alternative indie
Date Listened: 2024-03-16 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
After listening to Nothing Feels Good a couple of times, I was ready to do a deep dive back into midwest emo. Frame and Canvas is my other favorite album from this era, but I’d seen this playlist a while ago and thought I should branch out. It’s pretty great, and has some nice surprises
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The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I don't know Billy Ocean and I don't know the ocean floor
Date Listened: 2024-03-15 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.
For some reason my annual springtime Jay Som listen made me think of this album and 90s midwest emo in general, and I’m so glad I dug it out and listened to it. Somehow in the late 90s a track from this album got airplay on X-96 one evening in between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Loser” or whatever they were usually playing and still I think play 25 years later, and I happened to hear it. It stuck with me; I remembered the band name and that I liked it through two years of Mormon mission, but didn’t find or hear the album until college, when I was in the Graywhale by the University of Utah and found a section I’d never paid attention to with the strange-to-me label of “indie”, and there in that section was this album, with it’s ironic retro colorfulness and white CD case backing. This album was my conscious entry point to the world of “indie rock”, emo, Pitchfork, etc.
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Jay Som: Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles
Listening Link
Genre/Description: dream pop indie rock bedroom recordings but then studio
Date Listened: 2024-03-13 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl
Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.
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Jay Som: Anak Ko
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: limited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
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Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I am a target market
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
[ more ]
Helado Negro: Full Discography
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location:
Format/Platform:
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
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Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
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Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Context/Location: driving, doing dishes, etc.
Format/Platform: phone / Apple Music
[ more ]
Taylor Swift: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: confessional/dramatic singer-songwriter
Date Listened: 2024-04-21 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.
[ more ]
Beyoncé: COWBOY CARTER
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: genres are a funny little concept aren't they
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:27:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.
[ more ]
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: the most Vampire Weekendish ever
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:26:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: QWERTY II
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: classic rock?
Date Listened: 2024-03-28 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
This her progrockiest yet?
[ more ]
Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: lots of flute fretless bass synths and cool overdubbed singing - 'art pop'
Date Listened: 2024-03-25 11:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
I’ve been a fan of Julia Holter for a long time1. She occasionally creates moments that irritate me, but I kind of love her all the more for them.
[ more ]
Braid / Polyvinyl Records: Braid 1998 Van Mixtape
Listening Link
Genre/Description: midwest emo 1990s alternative indie
Date Listened: 2024-03-16 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
After listening to Nothing Feels Good a couple of times, I was ready to do a deep dive back into midwest emo. Frame and Canvas is my other favorite album from this era, but I’d seen this playlist a while ago and thought I should branch out. It’s pretty great, and has some nice surprises
[ more ]
The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I don't know Billy Ocean and I don't know the ocean floor
Date Listened: 2024-03-15 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.
For some reason my annual springtime Jay Som listen made me think of this album and 90s midwest emo in general, and I’m so glad I dug it out and listened to it. Somehow in the late 90s a track from this album got airplay on X-96 one evening in between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Loser” or whatever they were usually playing and still I think play 25 years later, and I happened to hear it. It stuck with me; I remembered the band name and that I liked it through two years of Mormon mission, but didn’t find or hear the album until college, when I was in the Graywhale by the University of Utah and found a section I’d never paid attention to with the strange-to-me label of “indie”, and there in that section was this album, with it’s ironic retro colorfulness and white CD case backing. This album was my conscious entry point to the world of “indie rock”, emo, Pitchfork, etc.
[ more ]
Jay Som: Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles
Listening Link
Genre/Description: dream pop indie rock bedroom recordings but then studio
Date Listened: 2024-03-13 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl
Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.
[ more ]
Jay Som: Anak Ko
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: limited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
[ more ]
Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I am a target market
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
[ more ]
Helado Negro: Full Discography
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location:
Format/Platform:
[ more ]
Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
[ more ]
Taylor Swift: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: confessional/dramatic singer-songwriter
Date Listened: 2024-04-21 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving mostly, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.
[ more ]
Beyoncé: COWBOY CARTER
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: genres are a funny little concept aren't they
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:27:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.
[ more ]
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: the most Vampire Weekendish ever
Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:26:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: QWERTY II
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: classic rock?
Date Listened: 2024-03-28 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
This her progrockiest yet?
[ more ]
Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: lots of flute fretless bass synths and cool overdubbed singing - 'art pop'
Date Listened: 2024-03-25 11:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
I’ve been a fan of Julia Holter for a long time1. She occasionally creates moments that irritate me, but I kind of love her all the more for them.
[ more ]
Braid / Polyvinyl Records: Braid 1998 Van Mixtape
Listening Link
Genre/Description: midwest emo 1990s alternative indie
Date Listened: 2024-03-16 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
After listening to Nothing Feels Good a couple of times, I was ready to do a deep dive back into midwest emo. Frame and Canvas is my other favorite album from this era, but I’d seen this playlist a while ago and thought I should branch out. It’s pretty great, and has some nice surprises
[ more ]
The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I don't know Billy Ocean and I don't know the ocean floor
Date Listened: 2024-03-15 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.
For some reason my annual springtime Jay Som listen made me think of this album and 90s midwest emo in general, and I’m so glad I dug it out and listened to it. Somehow in the late 90s a track from this album got airplay on X-96 one evening in between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Loser” or whatever they were usually playing and still I think play 25 years later, and I happened to hear it. It stuck with me; I remembered the band name and that I liked it through two years of Mormon mission, but didn’t find or hear the album until college, when I was in the Graywhale by the University of Utah and found a section I’d never paid attention to with the strange-to-me label of “indie”, and there in that section was this album, with it’s ironic retro colorfulness and white CD case backing. This album was my conscious entry point to the world of “indie rock”, emo, Pitchfork, etc.
[ more ]
Jay Som: Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles
Listening Link
Genre/Description: dream pop indie rock bedroom recordings but then studio
Date Listened: 2024-03-13 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl
Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.
[ more ]
Jay Som: Anak Ko
Listening Link
Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: limited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
[ more ]
Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
Listening Link
Genre/Description: I am a target market
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
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Helado Negro: Full Discography
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Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
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Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
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Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
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Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: limited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
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Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
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Genre/Description: I am a target market
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
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Helado Negro: Full Discography
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Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
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Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
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Genre/Description: I am a target market
Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
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Helado Negro: Full Discography
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Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
[ more ]
Helado Negro: Full Discography
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Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Helado Negro: Full Discography
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Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush
A 2020 Favorite
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Genre/Description:
Date Listened: 2024-02-04 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Helado Negro: PHASOR
A 2024 Favorite
Listening Link
Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic
Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.
[ more ]
Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)
Listening Link
Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock
Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.
[ more ]
Tame Impala: The Slow Rush