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My 2024 Listening Log

I track my music listening pretty exhaustively using last.fm, and have about six full years of history there. This is a place for me to manually highlight particular listening projects or obsessions of the moment.

Not sure how retroactive I can be - weird, but I might go back roughly to the beginning of 2024 or even the end of 2023 to make sure I cover some key repeats or personally meaningful listens.

Braid 1998 Van Mixtape - Cover Nothing Feels Good - Cover Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles - Cover Anak Ko - Cover OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 - Cover Full Discography - Cover PHASOR - Cover ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER) - Cover

Braid / Polyvinyl Records: Braid 1998 Van Mixtape

Braid 1998 Van Mixtape - Cover

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Genre/Description: midwest emo and other mostly mid90s mostly indie stuff

Date Listened: 3/16/2024
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: 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 like an ATCQ track from that period, and the realization that Third Eye Blind actually kind of fits in with this music. I’ve now added a bunch of albums from this era to my library to listen to; a lot of them I had read about or seen in catalogs back in the day, but didn’t have the money to buy them, library didn’t have them, couldn’t find them on file sharing, had no friends into this kind of music, etc. Had no friends, basically, hence this kind of music?

The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good

Nothing Feels Good - Cover

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Genre/Description: I don't know Billy Ocean and I don't know the ocean floor

Date Listened: 3/15/2024
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.
Notes: 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.

Jay Som: Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles

Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles - Cover

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Genre/Description: dream pop indie rock bedroom recordings but then studio

Date Listened: 3/13/2024
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl
Notes: Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.

Jay Som: Anak Ko

Anak Ko - Cover

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Date Listened: 3/10/2024
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: imited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
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Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017

OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 - Cover

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Genre/Description: I am a target market

Date Listened: 3/10/2024
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
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Helado Negro: Full Discography

Full Discography - Cover

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Date Listened: 3/3/2024
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Helado Negro: PHASOR

PHASOR - Cover

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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic

Date Listened: 2/29/2024
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: 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.

Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)

ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER) - Cover

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Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock

Date Listened: 2/15/2024
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: 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.

Tame Impala: The Slow Rush

The Slow Rush - Cover

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Date Listened: 2/4/2024
Context/Location: home, living room, cooking and digital puttering
Format/Platform: Vinyl
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Fust: Genevieve

Genevieve - Cover

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Genre/Description: indie country?

Date Listened: 1/29/2024
Context/Location: working,driving, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
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Viking's Choice [curator]: Ramble [Mixtape/Playlist]

Ramble [Mixtape/Playlist] - Cover

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Genre/Description: Kinda a little of everything?

Date Listened: 1/27/2024
Context/Location: playing around with the coding of this very website, including setting up this log
Format/Platform: Computer streaming / Bandcampr
Notes: Has a bunch of tracks from future releases I’ll probably be waiting for now.

The Smile: Wall of Eyes

Wall of Eyes - Cover

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Genre/Description: Kinda psychadelic and proggy actually?

Date Listened: 1/26/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: Listened to this twice today.

The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention

A Light for Attracting Attention - Cover

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Genre/Description: Stripped down radiohead but not as Sons of Kemit-y as I'd hoped.

Date Listened: 1/26/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes:

Weirdly didn’t give this much attention when it came out. Now I’m listening, though.

Also created a simple playlist for their studio work on Apple Music: The Smile


Atlas Sound: Parallax

Parallax - Cover

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Genre/Description: Elvis-at-Sun-Studios vocal reverb - "Terra Incognita" always makes me think of Caetano Veloso.

Date Listened: 1/24/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: It has been awhile, not sure why I thought to listen to this one. The second side with “Terra Incognita” and “Flagstaff” is still my favorite, and what I think of when I think of this album.

j. wiegold: At Breydon Water

At Breydon Water - Cover

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Genre/Description: *Sung Tongs* but if Sufjan Stevens?

Date Listened: 1/23/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: I shouldn’t write things about music, I always feel like I am wrong, or being untruthful.

Nick Hakim: WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD - Cover

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Genre/Description: psych rnb singersongwriter

Date Listened: 1/23/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
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Nick Hakim: Cometa

Cometa - Cover

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Genre/Description: psych rnb singersongwriter

Date Listened: 1/22/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: Saw him mentioned in the blurb for Adrienne Lenker’s new album and tour, and that was the only excuse I needed to listen to this again.

Fust: Songs of the Rail

Songs of the Rail - Cover

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Genre/Description: country?

Date Listened: 1/21/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: First-ever listen to Fust; will be exploring this album and their other work some more.

Jadu Heart: Derealised

Derealised - Cover

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Genre/Description: mbv x Beach House x Deerhunter? Should be my favorite band.

Date Listened: 1/19/2024
Context/Location: working,driving,etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music
Notes: This is solid but generally makes me want to listen to other things more.

Saya Gray:

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Date Listened: 1/18/2024
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Saya Gray:

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Date Listened: 1/18/2024
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Saya Gray:

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Date Listened: 1/18/2024
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Justin Vernon: "Justin Vernon Archive"

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Date Listened: 1/17/2024
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