Albums

  1. 2025.12.03 W – Julee Cruise, Floating into the Night (1989): David Lynch produced. Twin Peak vibes.
  2. 2025.12.02 T – Cindy Lee, Model Express (2018): Listened to on crappy laptop speakers. Felt right.
  3. 2025.11.30 Su – Brian Dunne, Clams Casino (Sep 2025)
  4. 2025.11.30 Su – The Replacements, Let It Be (1984)
  5. 2025.11.29 S – Wata Igarashi, My Supernova (Nov 2025)
  6. 2025.11.29 S – What of Our Nature, Haley Heynderickx / Max García Conover (Nov 2025)
  7. 2025.11.29 S – Oneohtrix Point Never, Tranquilizer (Nov 2025)
  8. 2025.11.29 S – The Boo Radleys, Giant Steps (1993)
  9. 2025.11.24 M – Smerz, Big city life EDITS (Nov 2025)
  10. 2025.11.24 M – Westerman, A Jackal’s Wedding (Nov 2025)
  11. 2025.11.23 Su – Saba, C0FFEE! (Nov 2025) – holy crap this was smooth.
  12. 2025.11.23 Su – Cheikh Lô, Maame (2025) – best part about job is more exposure to music.
  13. 2025.11.23 Su – FKA twigs, EUSEXUA Afterglow / EUSEXUA (Nov 2025)
  14. 2025.11.22 S – 1010Benja, 3X10 EP (Nov 2025) – the best: “‘YAM’ stands for ‘YOUR ASS, MINE,’ and wouldn’t you know it? Life’s got you; the gods and planets ensnare the weak and vulnerable. You, you are a snare; your love is a prison. The truth hurts—its violence is rich and sweet. When an American leaves their familiar land to travel to tropical places, one bite of a good ‘YAM’ is worth 1,000 Quarter Pounders.”
  15. 2025.11.20 R – Whitney, Small Talk (Nov 2025) – did not hate this as much as blog that shall not be named hated it.
  16. 2025.11.20 R – Ruby Gill: Some Kind Of Control (Mar 2025) – ow ow.
  17. 2025.11.19 W – Chairlift, Moth (2016)
  18. 2025.11..17 M – Chairlift, Does You Inspire You (2008)
  19. 2025.11.16 Su – Smerz, Big city life (May 2025)
  20. 2025.11.16 Su – James Ferraro, Last American Hero (2008)
  21. 2025.11.16 Su – Colter Wall: Memories and Empties
  22. 2025.11.09 Su – Patti Smith, Horses (1975)
  23. 2025.11.09 Su – Rosalia, Lux (Nov 2025)
  24. 2025.11.08 S – John Fahey, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965)
  25. 2025.11.08 S – Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, Punjabi Disco (Oct 2025)
  26. 2025.11.08 S – S.G. Goodman, Planting by the Signs (Jun 2025)
  27. 2025.11.08 S – Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow (Oct 2025) – wild. restorative folk clubbing.
  28. 2025.11.04 T- Caroline, Caroline 2 (May 2025)
  29. 2025.11.04 T- Carly Rae Jepsen, E•mo•tion (10th Anniversary Edition) (Oct 2025)
  30. 2025.11.04 T- Hayden Pedigo, I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away (Jun 2025) – incredible. Reminded me of William Tyler though I’m sure they are both reminding me of something I haven’t heard yet.
  31. 2025.11.03 M – Annahstasia, Tether (Oct 2025)
  32. 2025.11.02 Su – Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl
  33. 2025.11.02 Su – Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
  34. 2025.11.01 S – Jack DeJohnette and Keith Jarrett, Ruta and Daitya (1973)
  35. 2025.11.01 S – Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (1970)
  36. 2025.11.01 S – Tame Impala, Deadbeat (Oct 2025)
  37. 2025.10.31 F – The Kasambwe Brothers, The Kasambwe Brothers (Oct 2025)
  38. 2025.10.30 R – Sudan Archives, The BPM (Oct 2025)
  39. 2025.10.30 R – João Gilberto and Stan Getz, Getz/Gilberto (1964)
  40. 2025.10.30 R – feeo, Goodness (Oct 2025)
  41. 2025.10.26 Su – Rochelle Jordan, Through The Wall (Oct 2025)
  42. 2025.10.24 R – Adrianne Lenker, Live at Revolution Hall (Apr 2025)
  43. 2025.10.23 W – King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
  44. 2025.10.12 Su – Avery Tucker, Paw (Oct 2025)
  45. 2025.10.12 Su – Jay Som, Belong (Oct 2025)
  46. 2025.10.11 S – Flock of Dimes, The Life You Save (Oct 2025)
  47. 2025.10.11 S – Princess Nokia, GIRLS (Oct 2025)
  48. 2025.10.02 R – Rainbow Kitten Surprise, bones (Sep 2025)
  49. 2025.10.02 R – Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (sep 2025)
  50. 2025.09.30 T – Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory (Sep 2025)
  51. 2025.09.30 T – Destroyer, Dan’s Boogie (Apr 2025)
  52. 2025.09.30 T – Geese, Getting Killed (Sep 2025)
  53. 2025.09.21 Su – Toro y Moi, Hole Erth (2024)
  54. 2025.09.20 S – Toro y Moi, Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged (Sep 2025)
  55. 2025.09.09 T – Haim, I Quit (Jun 2025)
  56. 2025.09.08 M – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (1967)
  57. 2025.09.08 M – Elliott Smith, Either/Or (1997)
  58. 2025.09.08 M – Heatmiser, Mic City Sons (1996)
  59. 2025.09.08 M – Tune-Yards, Whokill (2011)
  60. 2025.09.06 S – AraabMuzik, Electronic Dream 2 (2025)
  61. 2025.08.31 – Dueling Banjos, soundtrack album by Eric Weissberg, Marshall Brickman, and Steve Mandell (1973)
  62. 2025.08.23 – Masayoshi Takanaka, On Guitar (1978)
  63. 2025.08.20 – Real Estate, Daniel (2025)
  64. 2025.08.15 – Dijon, Baby (2025)
  65. 2025.08.15 – Cass McCombs, Interior Oak Live (2025)
  66. 2025.08.14 – Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You (2025)
  67. 2025.08.14 – Alex G, Headlights (2025)
  68. 2025.08.06 – Kurt Vile, Classic Love, (ep)
  69. 2025.08.05 T – Little Simz, Lotus (Jun 2025) – felt fresh and referential.
  70. 2025.08.05 T – Evelyn “Champagne” King: Get Loose (1982) — stopped listening to music for a bit. Wow…
  71. 2025.07.25 F – Rainbow Kitten Surprise: Seven + Mary (2013)
  72. 2025.07.12 – Justin Bieber, Swag (2025)
  73. 2025.04.16 – Mk.gee: Pronounced McGee
  74. 2025.04.15 – Fats Navarro: Nostalgia (1946)
  75. 2025.04.12 – Mulatu Astatke: Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974
  76. 2025.03.29 – Death Grips, Money Store
  77. 2025.03.18 – Clube Da Esquina: Milton Nascimento, Lo Morges
  78. 2025.03.18 – Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
  79. 2025.03.12 – Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island
  80. 2025.03.10 – Salutations & Greetings
  81. 2025.03.09 – John Coltrane Quartet: Africa Brass
  82. 2025.03.08 – Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures (Mar 2025)
  83. 2025.03.08 – Panda Bear:” Sinister Grift
  84. 2025.03.07 – Hyukoh and Sunset Rollercoaster: Hyukoh
  85. 2025.03.05 – GROG: Frog
  86. 2025.03.05 -Squid: Cowards (Feb 2025)
  87. 2025.03.05 – Richard Dawson: End of the Middle (Feb 2025)
  88. 2025.02.17 M – MIKE: Showbiz! (Jan 2025)
  89. 2025.02.17 M – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Feb 2025)
  90. 2025.02.17 M – Hugh Mundell: Africa Must Be Free by 1983 (1978)
  91. 2025.02.17 M – FKA twigs: EUSEXUA (Jan 2025)
  92. 2025.02.16 Su – Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Jun 2004)
  93. 2025.02.15 S – Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (Jan 2025)
  94. 2025.02.15 S – Fatboy Slim: You’ve Come a Long Way Baby (1998)
  95. 2025.02.15 S – Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra (1972)
  96. 2025.02.14 F – Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Feb 2025)
  97. 2025.02.14 F – venturing: Ghostholding (Feb 2025)
  98. 2025.02.14 F – Joni Mitchell, Blue (1971)
  99. 2025.02.04 T – Cece Coakley: Soft Again (Jan 2025)
  100. 2025.01.30 R – Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose (2018) — loved this. Avant vampire weekend?
  101. 2025.01.22 W – Bad Bunny: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Jan 2025)
  102. 2025.01.21 T – Geese: 4D Country EP (2023)
  103. 2025.01.19 Su – Angel Olsen: Cosmic Waves Volume 1 (Jan 2024)
  104. 2025.01.19 Su – Paul Dietrich’s Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth — nice Sunday listening.
  105. Geese: 3D Country (Jun 2023)
  106. U2: Pop (1997)
  107. 2025.01.12 Su – This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Jun 2024) — Another awesome album. Other side of spectrum from E Cain Perverts.
  108. 2025.01.12 Su – Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal (Dec 2024) — I mean every song blew my mind. Perfect album for me.
  109. 2025.01.12 Su – Ethel Cain: Perverts (Jan 2025) — a bit creepily epic. Not my go to flavor of tea but glad I listened to a friend’s rec to check out.
  110. 2025.01.07 T – Daryl Johns: Daryl Johns (Jan 2025) — This album gained momentum as it went along and won me over by the end. Didn’t land out of the gate for me.
  111. 2025.01.06 M – SZA: SOS Deluxe: Lana (Jan 2025) — SZA is good at music!
  112. 2025.01.05 Su – Friko: Where we’ve been, Where we go from here (Feb 2024) — Reminds me so much of… cannot remember and will drive me crazy.
  113. 2025.01.04 S – Floating Points: Cascade (Sep 2024) — Banged at points. Washed over me at others. Surprised how much I liked it.
  114. 2025.01.02 R – Anna Ferrer: Parenòstic (Dec 2024) — gave a listen because of recent Majorca trip. She is Menorcan.
  115. 2025.01.01 W – Nicolás Jaar: Piedras 1 & 2 (Nov 2024) — not for me in all places but groovy and at times shakingly groovy (Viento).
  116. 2025.01.01 W – Pa Salieu: Afrikan Alien (Nov 2024) — Warm vibes to kick off a cold new year’s day in Chicago.

2024

  1. 2024.12.31 T – Jeff Parker: The Way Out of Easy (Nov 2024) — Well holy hell. Not bad to end the year on.
  2. 2024.12.28 S – Prince: The Black Album (1994) — “Days before its intended November 1987 release, Prince contacted Warner Bros. chairman Mo Ostin and requested the album’s withdrawal. Prince attributed his decision to a “spiritual epiphany” that convinced him the record represented the “anger” and “licentiousness” that the singer had to leave behind. He later blamed the album on an entity named Spooky Electric, described as a demonic, low-voiced alter-ego induced by Camille. The withdrawal decision is rumored to have been influenced by Prince’s having a bad experience on MDMA. The record company had to destroy about 500,000 copies of the album which were already on loading docks, ready for shipment to stores. However, a small number of those copies escaped destruction, which made the album available on the bootleg market following its cancellation. Prince would later reference the withdrawal in the music video for the lead single from Lovesexy, “Alphabet St.”, where a message quickly scrolls down the screen that reads: “Don’t buy The Black Album, I’m sorry.””
  3. 2024.12.27 F – The Microphones: Mount Eerie (2003)
  4. 2024.12.23 M – Various Artists: Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996
  5. 2024.12.22 Su – Robert Palmer: Clues (1980) – Not Addicted to Love but addicted to some of the riffs.
  6. 2024.12.22 Su – Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (Jun 2020) – Presidential historian.
  7. 2024.12.22 Su – Louis Armstrong: Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule
  8. 2024.12.18 W – The National: Rome (Dec 2024) — Well this rocks loudly.
  9. 2024.12.18 W – Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 | Karl Richter — For other interviews, I have listened again to that record recently. That was completely different, and it is not acceptable at all for my ears. Karl Richter must have been a really wonderful musician. Also, he played the harpsichord by himself and conducted, for example, St. Matthew’s Passion without seeing any scores. That’s a really amazing thing. Anyway, that’s his way of music making, completely modern. Not only modern, but the machine-like notes by notes [mimics sound] and so on. That is really not acceptable anymore, but at that time, that made, probably, a lot of excitement for the audience, and this is very nice, I think.
  10. 2024.12.16 M – Djrum: Meaning’s Edge EP (Dec 2024) — Did not think this would work for me and it absolutely worked.
  11. 2024.12.14 S – James Brown: James Brown’s Funky Christmas (1995) — A compilation so nice you will have to play it twice. (selections from seasonal albums cut by Brown in 1966, 1968, and 1970)
  12. 2024.12.12 R – Father John Misty: Mahashmashana (Nov 2024) — Someone text me a few weeks ago, “I feel like you like Father John Misty” as it that is comparable to “I feel like you putting lemonade in coffee.” I thought this rocked!
  13. 2024.12.05 R – The Waterboys: A Pagan Place (1984) — The War On Drugs cover.
  14. 2024.12.01 Su – George Harrison: Living in the Material World (1973) – When in London listen to anniversary addition GH album, they say.
  15. 2024.11.30 S – Merely/Malibu: Essential Mixtape (Nov 2024) — saw the word pop associated with this. Would not call it pop!
  16. 2024.11.25 T – Tyler, The Creator: Chromakopia (Oct 2024) — DON’T STOP.
  17. 2024.11.25 M – Paul Baribeau: Paul Baribeau (2005) — Do I want 90 minutes of this? No. 25 minutes? Yes, please!
  18. 2024.11.25 M – Bon Iver, Sable (Oct 2024) — I think I will always take 12 minutes of extended Bon Iver play? It is funny to answer the question, What kind of music do you like with, Bon Iver
  19. 2024.11.25 M – Kendrick Lamar, GNX (Oct 2024) — Eh, grew on me.
  20. 2024.11.25 M – Denzel Curry: KING OF THE MISCHIEVOUS SOUTH (Oct 2024) — I’m glad 2024 introduced me to DC.
  21. 2024.11.24 Su – Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 – Sato | Netherlands Bach Society — Bach be nimble, Bach be quick, me wish I understood this music and that it would click (nice background listening though).
  22. 2024.11.24 Su – Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (1975) — wow, what a good band! “After all, Wish You Were Here is what it says on postcards from somewhere beautiful. But it also means you’re alone.“
  23. 2024.11.21 R – The Cure: Disintegration (1989) — Rocks.
  24. 2024.11.20 W – The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Nov 2024) Rocks.
  25. 2024.11.20 W – Arctic Monkeys: Humbug (Aug 2009)
  26. 2024.11.19 T – The Microphones: The Glow, Pt. 2 (2001) — loved the opening driving through rainy norther lower p Michigan. Sort of kept waiting for second half to end…
  27. 2024.11.16 S – Super Disco Pirata – De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965​-​1980 (Analog Africa No​.​39)
  28. 2024.11.16 S – Bill Evans Trio: Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961) — still works listening to on a Saturday. “Sunday at the Village Vanguard was drawn from material recorded on June 25, 1961, at the Village Vanguard in New York City. The trio played five sets—two in the afternoon and three in the evening—each one comprising four or five numbers and lasting about half an hour. This was the last performance by the Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott LaFaro, who was killed in a car accident eleven days after the recording.“
  29. 2024.11.13 W – Lisha G / Trini Viv: Groovy Steppin Sh*t (Nov 2024) — pushed through cus only 20 some minutes but sheeeesh. “prismatic bangers” according to pfork. Prismatic, yes!
  30. 2024.11.12 T – Mount Eerie: Night Palace (Nov 2024) — For me, and I assume the entire listening public, Mt. Eerie is a thing I’ve heard of but never listened to. Like more than I thought during a very early morning listen.
  31. 2024.11.07 R – Yemi: Rave (2019) — Most underrated rapper working? Yes, I love Yemi. Neostockholm.
  32. 2024.11.07 R – Yemi: Heartmusic (2021)
  33. 2024.11.04 M – James Brown: Hey America (1970) — was too late when I realized this was a Christmas album.
  34. 2024.11.04 M – Gipsy Kings: Mosaïque (1989) —
  35. 2024.11.02 S – Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat (Oct 2024)
  36. 2024.10.27 Su – 2nd Grade: Scheduled Explosions (Oct 2024) – some dazzle.
  37. 2024.10.27 Su – Silver Jews: The Natural Bridge (1996)
  38. 2024.10.26 S – Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (Sep 2024) – beep boop bliss.
  39. 2024.10.26 S – Clairo: Charm (Jul 2024) – Slept on this one!
  40. 2024.10.20 Su – Being Dead: Eels (Sep 2024) – Worked for me, a lot.
  41. 2024.10.20 Su – Porridge Radio: Clouds in The Sky They Will Always Be There for Me (Oct 2024) – hook line and sinker opener.
  42. 2024.10.14 M – Charli XCX: Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat (Oct 2024) — Julian Casablancas!
  43. 2024.10.11 F – Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (May 2013) —
  44. 2024.10.10 R – Carpool: I Think Everyone’s a Cop (Sep 2018)
  45. 2024.10.07 M – Jamie xx: In Waves (Sep 2024) – Can’t believe that youtube guy didn’t like this album!
  46. 2024.10.02 W – Dorothy Carter: Troubadour (1976)
  47. 2024.09.30 M – Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor (Sep 2024)
  48. 2024.09.29 Su – Rostam: Half​-​Light Remixes: EP1
  49. 2024.09.28 S – William Walton: Viola Concerto (Nigel Kennedy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn)
  50. 2024.09.27 F – Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (Karajan)
  51. 2024.09.26 R – HAIM: Music In Music Pt. III (Jun 2020)
  52. 2024.09.26 R – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Karajan)
  53. 2024.09.22 Su – Rostam: Half-Light (The Instrumentals) (Sep 2024)
  54. 2024.09.21 S – MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks (Sep 2024)
  55. 2024.09.15 Su – Horse Jumper of Love: Disaster Trick (Aug 2024)
  56. 2024.09.07 S – Fred Again: Ten Days (Sep 2024)
  57. 2024.08.30 F – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
  58. 2024.08.24 S – Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Sep 2023) – no sure how I missed this last year. Super great pop ballad anthem banger.
  59. 2024.08.22 R – Balla Et Ses Balladins: Sous la direction de Onivogui Balla (1967)
  60. 2024.08.21 W – Balla Et Ses Balladins: Objectif Perfection (1980) – Call it when you see it! Paula is v good song. J Cole sample.
  61. 2024.08.20 T – Jacqueline Taïeb, Jacqueline Taïeb (1967) – Bravo!
  62. 2024.08.20 T – Fool’s Gold: Fool’s Gold (2009) – Dug this up after hearing this song on ye ol shuffle and being convinced it was a sample but I was wrong. But I loved this single so much in the early 2010’s. Was not aware of gist of band’s project.
  63. 2024.08.19 M – Spoon: Gimme Fiction (2005) – Spoon leads to fun $SPOT suggestions.
  64. 2024.08.19 M – Spoon: They Want My Soul (2014)
  65. 2024.08.19 M – Hotline TNT: Somersault (Remix) (2024) – Love this band!
  66. 2024.08.18 Su – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 (2024) — Yes. YES.
  67. 2024.08.18 Su – Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola, compilation
  68. 2024.08.08 R – Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up (2017)
  69. 2024.08.08 R – Andy Shauf, The Party (2016)
  70. 2024.08.06 T – Joni Mitchell, Hejira (1976): Not my observation but Bill Callahan has so much of her vibe.
  71. 2024.08.05 M – Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (1959) — “The title is a corruption of an imaginary Latin declension. It is common for Latin students to memorize Latin adjectives by first saying the masculine nominative (usually ending in “-us”), then the feminine nominative (“-a”), and finally the neuter nominative singular (“-um”)—implying a transformation of his name, Mingus, Minga, Mingum.“
  72. 2024.07.31 W – Bill Callahan: Resuscitate! Captures a show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall from Monday, March 6, 2023: “This is a live album that was taken from the tour for YTILAER. Songs tend to mutate after they’ve been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. Like whatever happened to Bruce Banner in the lab—I knew these songs were about to get superpowers. As far as I was concerned, this change needed to be documented. The best thing about documenting something is that it gives the creator permission to move on should they wish to move on. I usually prefer to move on. These songs were recorded in Chicago, America’s heart. And at one of the best clubs in the country—I try to only work with venues that are not entangled with Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Thalia Hall, baby. Stay free.“
  73. 2024.07.20 S – Mac Demarco, Salad Days (2012/2024): Man, love this album. Feel like I tell this story all the time but remember being outside Mbale, Uganda with a group of EDM people heading up into mountains to a resort as sun set and I got shotgun with van driver who gave me aux. Through this on and he looked over at me and said, “this is goooooood music.”
  74. 2024.07.18 R – Brian Eno and John Cale, Wrong Way Up (1990): Spinning Away. Omg.
  75. 2024.07.18 R – Richard Holmes, Soul Message (1965)
  76. 2024.07.18 R – Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery: Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (1966): Recommendation of David B. “Both musicians are prominent in the Hard Bop genre, one of my favorite jazz periods. And the Hammond B3 is one of my favorite two instruments. I was shopping in the new record store (two doors from R&W) last month with my nephew and I found the album which he knew so I bought it.”
  77. 2024.07.09 T – Fleet Foxes: Live On Boston Harbor (2024) – such a legendary band.
  78. 2024.07.02 T – Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
  79. 2024.07.01 M – Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (1959)
  80. 2024.06.27 F – Orlando Consort: The Rose, The Lily & The Whortleberry: Medieval Gardens (2005) — weirdly listenable. I do not have the context to even be able to make an observation about it though. I google what a whortleberry is and was helpfully told it is a bilberry.
  81. 2024.06.25 W – MJ Lenderman: Boat Songs (Apr 2022)
  82. 2024.06.25 W – MJ Lenderman: Ghost of Your Guitar Solo (Mar 2021) – I should not have ignored mentioned of MJL. AlexG-core.
  83. 2024.06.25 W – Verraco: Breathe​.​.​. Godspeed EP (Jun 2024) — weird but listenable electronic music.
  84. 2024.06.25 W – Zsela: Big For You (Jun 2024) — very sweet fresh sounding pop.
  85. 2024.06.23 Su – Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans (Mar 2004) — think there was a re-issue so listened. He’s been doing the big indie rock pop folk big 11 o’clock number for 20 years! (video; video)
  86. 2024.06.23 Su – King Krule: EP, SHHHHHH! (Jun 2024) — Got some Mac vibes. 11 kruly minutes of krule.
  87. 2024.06.20 R – Paul McCartney / Wings: One Hand Clapping (1974/2004) — “One Hand Clapping is a live studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released on 14 June 2024, nearly fifty years after it was recorded.” Cool!
  88. 2024.06.15 S – CSO Juraj Valčuha: 1) Weber, Overture to Oberon; 2) Puts, Meyer, Heggie, Higdon, Montgomery, The Elements (Joshua Bell); 3) Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1 (intro video)
  89. 2024.06.09 Su – Charli XCX: Brat (Jun 2024) — Is reflective Charli why I love Charli? Maybe not but still loved the album.
  90. 2024.06.08 S – Television: The Blow-Up live album – Strange live album Tweedy pushed in his book World Within A Song. Would not say any of it immediately approached me on easy terms but lots of the longer songs did grow on my and put me in a good funk vortex.
  91. 2024.06.06 R – Cyndi Lauper: She’s So Unusual (Oct 1983) — Listened to this cus Pfork flagged as a classic album review. Learned from my mom she is on tour this summer. The PR media machine gears turn turn turn! Still an absolute classic.
  92. 2024.06.05 W – Trent Reznor: Challengers (Apr 2024) — Fun and good work music but love how Reznor loves to work in Benjamin Britten type choirs into his soundtracks.
  93. 2024.06.05 W – Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 — “The Italian”; mentioned in some show noes as Tchaikovsky being a fan of or something.
  94. 2024.06.04 T – Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot (Feb 2024) — “A tight 25 min from Marquette Michigan”. Does this have anything to do with Anatomy of a Murder? No. Does Marquette Michigan remind me of AoaM? Yes.
  95. 2024.06.03 M – Dehd: Water (May 2029) — IT ALL ROCKS.
  96. 2024.06.02 Su – Keith Jarrett: Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973) — Steve Reich-y jazz? Way over my skis but loved it. Reminded me of this all-time favorite grunting master class.
  97. 2024.06.01 S – Bach: Art of the Fugue [The Canadian Brass] — all about that bass/Bach/brass. A quick youtube shows me these guys are a Tiny Desk level known entity (link to video).
  98. 2024.06.01 S – Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (May 2024)
  99. 2024.06.01 S – Modest Mouse: Building Nothing Out of Something (1999) – This compilation album… stands together.
  100. 2024.05.31 F – CSO: Manfred Honeck conducts 1) Montgomery Procession [World Premiere, CSO Commission] w/ Cynthia Yeh and Bruckner, Symphony No. 7. “I often listen to his Ninth Symphony,” I chimed in. Another pretty meaningless statement. “Yes, that’s truly lovely music,” the monkey said.
  101. 2024.05.31 F – Vince Staples: Dark Times (May 2024)
  102. 2024.05.30 R – Wings: Back to the Egg (May 1979)
  103. 2024.05.29 W – Guster: Ganging Up on the Sun (Jun 2006)
  104. 2024.05.28 T – Built to Spill: Keep It Like a Secret (Feb 1999) — I don’t “get” B2S but man oh man does this whole album work for me! Like a messy pop lego masterpiece put together in a well worn play room.
  105. 2024.05.27 M – Guster: Ooh La La (May 2024) — Me need mo guster pls. Full disclosure that Guster only got on my radar from this Ratboys’ session.
  106. 2024.05.24 S – Young Jesus: Welcome to Conceptual Beach (Aug 2020) — Can’t believe I thought this singer was a one hit wonder from this: (un)knowing
  107. 2024.05.24 S – Young Jesus: The Fool (May 2024) – AAAAAHHHH. Sooo good. TWO BROTHERS: True love is a little bit like this album.
  108. 2024.05.23 R – Mk.gee: Two Star & the Dream Police (Feb 2024) – Listened to this cus I saved a single awhile ago that got shuffled in front of me and saw someone else call out the band in good way. Thought it was total rip off of Djion then realized they are actually just boys (music video of them being boys).
  109. 2024.05.23 R – Sigur Rós: Ágætis byrjun (Jun 1999) — forgot how super sweet this sound is.
  110. 2024.05.23 R – The Mystics: Presenting The Mystics (1959) — Presenting my review of The Mystics’ Presenting The Mystics: Pretty frickin good/mystical.
  111. 2024.05.22 W – Tidiane Thiam: Africa Yontii (May 2024) – Ugh, that first song made me feel like someone was putting a plunger to my chest in the best was possible. “I don’t engage in politics but I can still make a choice!” Pulaar music should be more popular populaar hehe. “in general all my titles are in Pulaar. My mother’s side of the family is Pulaar so I grew up always speaking it around the house. To add something that might interest you – have you ever wondered why I don’t sing? What I would be singing I prefer to play with my guitar And as I was saying earlier – We don’t hear music we feel it! And my music goes straight to the heart, soul and spirit (a MOVING music).“
  112. 2024.05.22 W – Crumb: Amama (May 2024) — A little worried this sounds like an insult but it hit me like best holding/elevator music with a dream adventure waiting on the other side.
  113. 2024.05.21 T – Judy Garland, Judy At Carnegie Hall (1962). Judy Garland remains a cinematic, musical, and historical blindspot for me (except for trolly song; I love trolley song and trolley song loves me). “It was recorded on the night of Sunday April 23, 1961.” Can’t really imagine many better ways to spend a Sunday evening than going nuts for Judy with thousands of other Judy heads. You can just feel the madness in the hall. Sort of funny cus it is not 100% different (just 98%) different than the Sunday evening Freddie Gibbs 10 year anniversary performance of Piñata which was not where I planned to be 24 hours earlier.
  114. 2024.05.20 M – Denzel Curry: Melt My Eyez See Your Future (The Extended Edition) (Mar 2022) — love when a friend shows you an album they love so much and insist you listen to the correct version so pass along detail UI instructions to find the right version in $SPOT. Walkin makes me want to melty bounce all around the neighborhood on a warm day.
  115. 2024.05.18 S – Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (May 2024)
  116. 2024.05.18 S – Béla Fleck and Chick Corea: Remembrance (May 2024) — I happened to catch end of Terry Zwigoff’s 1985 Louie Bluie on Criterion 24/7 about Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong he sort of reminded me of these guys.
  117. 2024.05.17 F – A. G. Cook: Britpop (May 2024) — You gon’ jump if Alexander Guy made it!
  118. 2024.05.16 R – Strawinsky: Pulcinella-Suite ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ François Leleux (youtube)
  119. 2024.05.16 R – Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Piñata (Mar 2014) — “They was just kids playing in the dope. They was just playin’ in the dope. It was little four-year-old kids hitting dope in piñatas. I don’t know. It was a crazy ass dream. So, I just called that shit Cocaine Piñata.” plus the MJ Gary, IN story. What do you call a group of zebras? A dazzle!
  120. 2024.05.15 W – MOZART, Violin Concerto No.2 – Julia Fischer
  121. 2024.05.15 W – Jimmy Eat World, Bleed American (Jul 2001) — If I pass at a young age carry me out of the church with this playing. Lots of pop.
  122. 2024.05.14 T – Dehd, Poetry (May 2024) — Def one of the bands in the last few years where their new music gets me excited. Hope this love can take me higher (Hold my head, hurt me harder)!!
  123. 2024.05.13 M – Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice (May 2024)
  124. 2024.05.12 Su – Kacy Hill: Bug (May 2024) — Not sure how this happened but Kacy Hill all of a sudden became on of my favorite musicians. Fun album.
  125. 2024.05.09 R – Beirut Beats: Beirut Beats 01 (May 2024) — “The result synthesises the emotional experience of living the Lebanese capital, where the traditional Middle Eastern and North African rhythms are stylized to address the cutting-edge demands of contemporary and future Club Culture.” The demands are too high too high for me! Sort of reminded me of Oceans Twelve Laser Dance.
  126. 2024.05.09 R – Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement (May 2024) — Dream party dinner party adventure party. (official visual)
  127. 2024.05.08 W – Derek Gripper: One Night on Earth: Music From the Strings of Mali (2012) — from work searchable conversation system. Sometimes work delivers the goods. No Toumani Diabaté (Don’t think he’s trying to be Toumani Diabaté).
  128. 2024.05.07 T – Oisin Leech: Cold Sea (Mar 2024) — $SPOT algo delivered a rare sonic jewel for me in suggesting this song (One Hill Further – Sadness does run like a fever. People forget that!)) which led to me listening to this album. Fan! Reminded me of Nick Drake. Reminded my sister of Coldplay.
  129. 2024.05.07 T – Grandaddy: Blu Wav (Feb 2024) — sort of winged it listening to this and loved it. What more can you ask of It. This song inspired an album. Brutal! You’re going to be fine and I’m going to hell, fo sho. Off to the cabin in my mind!
  130. Blaade
  131. Justice
  132. Hovvdy: Hovvdy [Arts & Crafts]
  133. Future
  134. Future
  135. Taylor
  136. 2024.04.22 M – Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Apr 2024) — sometimes an album cover and titles catches your eye so you listen to it than you see Laraaji featured on it and you have tickets to see him in five days so you feel like you are in good hands even though this is very little big, loud, shiny horn to be found amongst these spirit songs. (Break link in case of emergency need for blsh [big loud shiny horn]).
  137. 2024.04.21 Su – Cloud Nothings: Final Summer (Apr 2024) — Does this album do anything new or intersting? I think so but also some bands get a permanent place in your heart cus of albums that came out in high school.
  138. 2024.04.18 R – Prokofjew: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Aziz Shokhakimov
  139. 2024.04.18 R – CSO: Conductor Tugan Sokhiev — 1) Panufnik – Heroic Overture; Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Yulianna Avdeeva); 3) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams) — CSO be fun by yourself. CSO be more fun with cousins in from out of town. We chuckled at piano for Chopin being raised from the depths of hell where bad note players are also sent. Chopin felt boring to me but then you remember…
  140. 2024.04.17 W -Anoushka Shankar – Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn EP (Apr 2024) – Not that it matters but… only 24 minutes! Liked this a lot more than I thought I might. Whatever the melody was here reminded me of a more restrained delicate this.
  141. 2024.04.17 W – أحمد [Ahmed]: Wood Blues – Liked the album cover so went to look for album. Saw on $SPOT there was only one song so figured album hadn’t been released yet. Then realized it was a 58 minute song. Lots of what ever parts but when it really beeped and booped it truly bopped. Last ten minutes felt electric. (Here is 4 minute original these guys played for an hour.)
  142. 2024.04.17 – Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (2024) Full Album HQ – Ugh erm uhm… two hours of jams and ditties. Can’t say it all drew me in but enough did that I wished I had found it on $SPOT so I could have saved some of them.
  143. 2024.04.17 – Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me (Apr 2024) – I always mix up MR with Jenny Lewis.
  144. 2024.04.16 T – Yo-Yo Ma: Songs from the Arc of Life (2015) — worth it alone for this song.
  145. 2024.04.14 Su – Lavender Country: Lavender Country (1973) – Rick rolling gay country!
  146. 2024.04.11 R – Sibelius: 7. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Paavo Järvi
  147. 2024.04.11 R – Sibelius: Symphony 7 ( Full) – Karajan
  148. 2024.04.11 R – Sibelius, Symphonie Nr 7 C Dur op 105 Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker
  149. 2024.04.10 W – Khruangbin: A LA SALA (Apr 2024) – I am glad I have gotten over my “they are so derivative of so much other better music” phase with this band. Another groover! Anti-zapped medicine. Khruangbin is a does it for most (all?) vibes band.
  150. 2024.04.09 T – Wilco: Summerteeth (Mar 1999)
  151. 2024.04.09 T – A. Savage: Loft Sessions EP (Apr 2024) – While on tour with his live band in support of his recent release Several Songs About Fire, A. Savage was invited to spend a day recording at Wilco’s Loft Studio in Chicago. The result is the Loft Sessions, three covers of country legend Johnny Paycheck, Kevin Ayers and Lavender Country – as well as a reworking of an A. Savage original, “Wild Horses”.
  152. 2024.04.08 M – Grace Cummings: Ramona (Apr 2024)
  153. 2024.04.08 M – Bnny: Everything (Sep 2021)
  154. 2024.04.08 M – John Adams – Naïve and Sentimental Music (1999)
  155. 2024.04.07 Su – Bnny: One Million Love Songs (Apr 2024)
  156. 2024.04.07 Su – Sauli Zinovjev: Batteria (2016) / Munchen Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä – youtube
  157. 2024.04.07 Su – Phosphorescent: Revelator (Apr 2024)
  158. 2024.04.07 Su – Phosphorescent: Muchacho (Mar 2013)
  159. 2024.04.07 Su – Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (Jul 1984)
  160. 2024.04.06 S – Mount Kimbie: The Sunset Violent (Apr 2024)
  161. 2024.04.05 F – Destroyer Live at Massey Hall | July 10, 2014
  162. 2024.04.05 F – Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Apr 2024)
  163. 2024.04.04 R – # CSO: Klaus Mäkelä & Sol Gabetta – 1) Zinovjev, Batteria [United States Premiere]; 2) Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 1; 3) Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10
  164. 2024.04.04 R – # Lyric Opera: Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. Francesca Zambello’s production. Music Director Enrique Mazzola.
  165. 2024.04.03 W – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 – Glenn Gould, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernstein (1961/2015)
  166. 2024.04.03 W – Orchestra Baobab: Pirate’s Choice (1982)
  167. 2024.04.03 W – Peter Gregson, Quartets: One – Four (2022) — Review about Yonder Blue from 2019: This mix of man and the natural world is present not just in the stage design, but also in the music and dancing. Composer Peter Gregson’s score “Quartets: Two” is an absolute star of “Yonder Blue,” written for strings and synthesizer and released in 2017. Played by the Chicago Philharmonic, Maestro Scott Speck conducted a fraction of the orchestra’s violin, viola and cello sections over what I assume is a recorded track of vintage synthesizers. The piece, in four sections, shares minimalistic qualities with more familiar composers like Philip Glass, but Gregson dares to resolve it, landing on major chords often, and providing a sweeping, cinematic, and satisfying landscape for McNicol’s rangy choreography.
  168. 2024.04.02 T – CSO: CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen leads Third Brandenburg Concerto, Violin Concerto in E Major, Orchestral Suite No. 1, with Principal Oboe William Welter in Concerto for Oboe and Violin (excerpt)
  169. 2024.04.02 T – CSO: CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen leads Third Brandenburg Concerto, Violin Concerto in E Major, Orchestral Suite No. 1, with Principal Oboe William Welter in Concerto for Oboe and Violin (excerpt)
  170. 2024.04.02 T – Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Mar 2024)
  171. 2024.03.31 Su – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 – Gustav Mahler (Composer), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra) (1984)
  172. 2024.03.31 Su – Tyla: Tyla (Mar 2024)
  173. 2024.03.30 S – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 / Glenn Gould, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bernstein (1960/2015) – youtube
  174. 2024.03.30 S – Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971) — As Flying Lotus—her grandnephew and frequent, outspoken champion—noted in a 2021 interview, Coltrane “was the matriarch of the family, but she was also the Godfather. She took care of everybody, but you couldn’t mess with Auntie.”
  175. 2024.03.30 S – 1010Benja: Two Houses EP (Nov 2018)
  176. 2024.03.30 S – Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.3, Gould, Karajan Berliner (1957) – youtube
  177. 2024.03.30 S – Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Mar 2024)
  178. 2024.03.29 F – Roxy Music, Avalon (May 1983)
  179. 2024.03.28 R – 1010Benja: Ten Total (Mar 2024)
  180. 2024.03.27 W – Mozart: Claudio Abbado & London Symphony Orchestra – Symphonies 40 & 41 “Jupiter” (1987)
  181. 2024.03.26 T – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Gould/Bernstein – Bernstein’s Speech included (Youtube)
  182. 2024.03.26 T – Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves (Mar 2024)
  183. 2024.03.26 T – Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Mar 2024)
  184. 2024.03.26 T – Chopin – 24 Etudes Op. 10 – Pollini (youtube)
  185. 2024.03.26 T – Supertramp: Breakfast in America
  186. 2024.03.24 Su – Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff: Magg Tekki (Nov 2023) – bandcamp
  187. 2024.03.24 Su – Ballaké Sissoko and Toumani Diabaté: New Ancient Strings (Jun 1999) – https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/toumani-diabate-and-ballake-sissoko-21-strings
  188. 2024.03.24 Su – Lady Gaga: Joanne (Oct 2016)
  189. 2024.03.24 Su – Nourished By Time: Catching Chickens EP (Mar 2024)
  190. 2024.03.23 S – Ches Smith and We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Jun 2021)
  191. 2024.03.23 S – Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (Mar 2024)
  192. 2024.03.22 F – The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (Mar 1993)
  193. 2024.03.21 R – CSO: Conductor, Susanna Mälkki: 1) Wagner, Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin; 2) Liebermann, Flute Concerto No. 2 [World Premiere, CSO Commission]; 3) Mahler, Symphony No. 4
  194. 2024.03.21 R – Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (Feb 2023)
  195. 2024.03.21 R – Justin Timberlake – Everything I Thought It Was (Mar 2024)
  196. 2024.03.18 M – Joe Henderson: Power to the People (1969)
  197. 2024.03.17 Su -Irreversible Entanglements: Protect Your Light (Sep 2023)
  198. 2024.03.16 S – Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin Suite – Gardner (youtube)
  199. 2024.03.16 S – Brahms Sinfonie Nr 1 c Moll op 68 Seiji Ozawa Saito kinen Orchestra Symphony No 1 in C minor (youtube)
  200. 2024.03.16 S – Symphonie fantastique Op.14 – H.Berlioz – Seiji Ozawa – Saito Kinen Orchestra (youtube)
  201. 2024.03.16 S – Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well (Mar 2024)
  202. 2024.03.15 F – Yung Lean & Bladee, Psykos (Mar 2024)
  203. 2024.03.15 F – Four Tet, Three (Mar 2024)
  204. 2024.03.15 F – Yard Act, Where’s My Utopia? (Mar 2024)
  205. 2024.03.15 F – CSO: Conductor, Jakub Hrůša: 1) R. Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra; 2) Martinů, Violin Concerto No. 1; 3) Bartók, Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin; Encore Josef Špaček, L’Aurore from Sonata No. 5, Op. 27 [Mar. 15 Encore]
  206. 2024.03.14 R – Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa)
  207. 2024.03.14 R – Bach’s Goldberg Variations [Glenn Gould, 1981 record] (BWV 988)
  208. 2024.03.14 R – Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile (MAR 2023)
  209. 2024.03.14 R – Compilation, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (1985, youtube)
  210. 2024.03.14 R – Paul Simon, Seven Psalms (2023)
  211. 2024.03.14 R – Christine and the Queens, Paranoia, Angels, True Love (Jun 2023)
  212. 2024.03.13 W – Boygenius, The Rest EP (Oct 2023) [2024.03.13 W repeat]
  213. 2024.03.12 T – CSO: Conductor, Jakub Hrůša: 1) R. Strauss – Death and Transfiguration; 2) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; 3) Lutosławski – Concerto for Orchestra (podcast)
  214. 2024.03.12 T – Yaeji, With a Hammer (Apr 2023)
  215. 2024.03.11 M – Lankum, False Lankum (Mar 2023) – Bonus Tiny Desk Concert
  216. 2024.03.11 M – J.S.Bach “The Goldberg Variations” [Glenn Gould ] (1955) – youtube
  217. 2024.03.10 Su – Kali Malone, All Life Long (Mar 2024)
  218. 2024.03.10 Su – Serpentwithfeet, Grip (Mar 2024)
  219. 2024.03.09 S – Kim Gordon, The Collective (Mar 2024)
  220. 2024.03.09 S – Wes Corbett, Cascade (Dec 2020)
  221. 2024.03.08 F – Bleachers, Bleachers (Mar 2024)
  222. 2024.03.07 R – Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites (Mar 2024)
  223. 2024.03.07 R – Hannah Frances, Keeper of the Shepherd (Mar 2024)
  224. 2024.03.06 W – Tinariwen, Amatssou (May 2023)
  225. 2024.03.05 T – Koltun/Abdoulaye+Ahmoudou, Purplish Records Batch #1 – Family (PR_001 & PR_002)
  226. 2024.03.05 T – Laraaji, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (1980) (Produced by Brian Eno who I learned also produced Viva La Vida)
  227. 2024.03.04 M – Schoolboy Q, Blue Lips (Mar 2024)
  228. 2024.03.04 M – Faye Webster, Underdressed at the Symphony (Mar 2024)
  229. 2024.03.02 S – Bola Sete, Concert at San Francisco State College (Oct 1971)
  230. 2024.03.02 S – Real Estate, Daniel (Feb 2024)
  231. 2024.03.02 S – Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven (Feb 2024)
  232. 2024.03.02 S – Compilation album, The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Jul 2023)
  233. 2024.02.28 W – Brittany Howard, What Now (Feb 2024)
  234. 2024.02.27 T – Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive (Feb 2024)
  235. 2024.02.26 M – Advance Base, Animal Companionship (Sep 2018)
  236. 2024.02.24 S – Dina Ögon, Orion (Feb 2024)
  237. 2024.02.23 F – Philip Glass, Philip Glass Solo
  238. 2024.02.22 R – Jessica Pratt, On Your Own Love Again (Jan 2015)
  239. 2024.02.21 W – J Mascis, What Do We Do Now (Feb 2024)
  240. 2024.02.20 T – High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina (1975 compilation): “one of the finest compilations of old-time field recordings available” and “should be of equal interest to academics, musicians, and the merely curious”.
  241. 2024.02.19 M – The Undertones, Hypnotised (1980)
  242. 2024.02.19 M – The Undertones, Positive Touch (1981)
  243. 2024.02.19 M – Martha McDonnell, Martha McDonnell EP (2022)
  244. 2024.02.16 F – Teebs, Collections 01 (Nov 2011)
  245. 2024.02.13 T – Sarah Jarosz, Blue Heron Suite (May 2021)
  246. 2024.02.12 M – Sarah Jarosz, Polaroid Lovers (Jan 2024)
  247. 2024.02.10 S – Legends Of Benin – Afro Funk, Cavacha, Agbadja, Afro​-​Beat (Analog Africa Nr. 5)
  248. 2024.02.10 S – Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969​-​1978 (Analog Africa Nr. 17)
  249. 2024.02.05 M – Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
  250. 2024.02.03 S – The Dukes of Stratosphear, Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (Aug 1987)
  251. 2024.01.29 M – Cocteau Twins, Head over Heels (Oct 1983)
  252. 2024.01.27 S – The Smile, Wall of Eyes (Jan 2024)
  253. 2024.01.26 F – Future Islands, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Jan 2024)
  254. 2024.01.15 M – The Green Arrows, 4​-​Track Recording Session (Analog Africa Nr. 1)
  255. 2024.01.14 Su – XTC, Drums and Wires (1979) – [This Is Pop Documentary]
  256. 2024.01.14 Su – Kali Uchis, Orquídeas (Jan 2024)
  257. 2024.01.04 R – The Rolling Stones, Between the Buttons (1967)

2023

  1. 2023.12.31 Su – Slow Pulp, Yard (Sep 2023)
  2. 2023.12.23 S – Ferre Grignard, Ring, Ring, I’ve Got To Sing (1966)
  3. 2023.12.22 F – Randy Newman, Little Criminals (Sep 1977)
  4. 2023.12.20 W – Angèle, Nonante-Cinq (Dec 2021)
  5. 2023.12.17 Su – Virginia Astley, The Singing Places (Oct 2023)
  6. 2023.12.13 W – Greg Mendez, Greg Mendez (May 2023)
  7. 2023.12.12 T – Nourished by Time, Erotic Probiotic 2 (Apr 2023)
  8. 2023.12.10 Su – Ary Lobo 1958​-​1966 (Limited Dance Edition No​.​19): https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/track/visite-o-terreiro
  9. 2023.12.10 Su – Wednesday, Rat Saw God (April 2023) – This album got so so much critical love… like it.
  10. 2023.12.09 S – Aberdeen, Held Together (Feb 2023)
  11. 2023.12.09 S – Tokyo Riddim 1976​-​1985: https://timecapsulespace.bandcamp.com/album/tokyo-riddim-1976-1985
  12. 2023.12.08 F – James Elkington, Me Neither (Dec 2023)
  13. 2023.12.03 Su – Johnzo West, Mystic Mountain (Jan 2023): John Mayer mix with William Tyler? https://johnzowest.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-mountain
  14. 2023.12.03 Su – Khruangbin & Men I Trust: Live at RBC Echo Beach (bandcamp)
  15. 2023.12.02 S – The Police, Ghost in the Machine (Oct 1981)
  16. 2023.12.02 S – A. G. Cook, Easyfun, and Thy Slaughter, Soft Rock (Dec 2023)
  17. 2023.11.30 R – Nation of Language, Introduction, Presence (May 2020)
  18. 2023.11.25 S – William Eggleston: 512 (Nov 2023)
  19. 2023.11.24 F – Beirut, Hadsel (Nov 2023)
  20. 2023.11.23 R – Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (50th Anniversary Edition, 1973)
  21. 2023.11.20 M – Kurt Vile, Back to Moon Beach EP (Sep 2023)
  22. 2023.11.20 M – Midori Takada, Through The Looking Glass (1983)
  23. 2023.11.20 M – Yemi, Heartmusic (2021)
  24. 2023.11.20 M – André 3000, New Blue Sun (Nov 2023) – Fun interview: https://www.gq.com/story/men-of-the-year-2023-andre-3000-profile
  25. 2023.11.16 R – Nation of Language, Strange Disciple (Sep 2023)
  26. 2023.11.14 T – Van Morrison, ..It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volume I Live (1974)
  27. 2023.11.13 M – Shackleton & Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu: In The Cell of Dreams (Sep 2023) – https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-cell-of-dreams
  28. 2023.11.10 F – Heaven knows, PinkPantheress (Nov 2023)
  29. 2023.11.09 R – Bach, Brandenburg Concertos: Six concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg, Trevor Pinnock (Conductor), European Brandenburg Ensemble (Orchestra) — youtube
  30. J.S. Bach (Composer), Trevor Pinnock (Conductor),
  31. 2023.11.09 R – Angel Du$t, BRAND NEW SOUL (Sep 2023)
  32. 2023.11.08 W – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The Silver Cord (Oct 2023)
  33. 2023.11.06 M – Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain (1965): Steve Reich on Composing “It’s Gonna Rain”
  34. 2023.11.06 M – Golden Smog, Down by the Old Mainstream (1995)
  35. 2023.11.05 Su – Hotline TNT, Cartwheel (Nov 2023): I Thought You’d Change
  36. 2023.11.05 Su – Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1981 – Gustav Holst’s The Planets (1916): Love this> https://petersplanets.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/karajan-1981/
  37. 2023.11.05 Su – Wilco, Cousin (Sep 2023)
  38. 2023.11.03 F – Titanic, Vidrio (Nov 2023)
  39. 2023.11.01 W – Rema, RAVAGE (Oct 2023)
  40. 2023.11.01 W – Death Cab for Cutie, You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997): This Charming Man (<not even a great cover but…)
  41. 2023.10.29 Su – Sofia Kourtesis, Madres (Oct 2023): ‘Cecilia’ (Official Audio)
  42. 2023.10.26 R – A. Savage, Several Songs About Fire (Oct 2023)
  43. 2023.10.25 W – Death Cab For Cutie, Transatlanticism (Oct 2003)
  44. 2023.10.24 T – The Hotelier Home, Like Noplace Is There (Feb 2014)
  45. 2023.10.23 M – Easter, DEMONSTRATION: https://easter.bandcamp.com/album/demonstration
  46. 2023.10.23 M – Foxing, The Albatross (Nov 2013): Foxing: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
  47. 2023.10.23 M – Macie Stewart, Mouth Full of Glass (Sep 2021)
  48. 2023.10.22 Su – Dan Bern, Dan Bern (1997); “This song deserves a million likes. I worked at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur in the early 1990s, and I was constantly asked by visitors if Henry had been married to Marilyn. A few years later, I heard Dan Bern sing this song at the library. In case you ever visit the place — and it’s well worth the trip — ask the library director, Magnus, to sing this song. He does a great version, too!“
  49. 2023.10.22 Su – Kate Bush, The Sensual World (Oct 1989)
  50. 2023.10.22 Su – Boygenius, The Rest EP (Oct 2023)
  51. 2023.10.22 Su – Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other (Oct 2023)
  52. 2023.10.19 R – Destroyer, Kaputt (2011)
  53. 2023.10.17 T – Bad Bunny, nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana (Oct 2023)
  54. 2023.10.16 M – Anoushka Shankar, Land of Gold (2016)
  55. 2023.10.10 T – Hannah Diamond, Perfect Picture (Oct 2023)
  56. 2023.10.08 Su – Sufjan Sevens, Javelin (Oct 2023):
  57. 2023.10.05 F – Lewsberg: Out And About (Sep 2023)
  58. 2023.10.05 R – Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (2021)
  59. 2023.10.05 R – Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, Ali & Toumani (2010)
  60. 2023.10.04 W – Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Sep 2023): Really enjoyed Star!
  61. 2023.10.02 M – Tyler Childers, Rustin’ in the Rain (Sep 2023)
  62. 2023.10.02 M – Oneohtrix Point Never, Again (Sep 2023): Notes from New Yorker profile.
  63. 2023.10.01 Su – Zach Bryan, “Boys of Faith” EP (Sep 2023)
  64. 2023.10.01 Su – Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan (Aug 2023)
  65. 2023.09.30 S – Wilco, Cousin (Sep 2023)
  66. 2023.09.30 S – Animal Collective, Isn’t It Now? (Sep 2023)
  67. 2023.09.29 F – Petey, USA (Sep 2023)
  68. 2023.09.28 R – Lewsberg, In Your Hands (Oct 2021): Loved this song.
  69. 2023.09.28 R – Feeble Little Horse, Girl With Fish (Jun 2023)
  70. 2023.09.27 W – David Byrne, The Knee Plays (2007)
  71. 2023.09.27 W – Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues (1983)
  72. 2023.09.27 W – Talking Heads, Remain in Light (1980)
  73. 2023.09.26 T – Ratboys, The Window (Aug 2023)
  74. 2023.09.25 M – Westerman, An Inbuilt Fault (Deluxe) (Sep 2023)
  75. 2023.09.18 M – Sigur Rós, Átta (Jun 2023)
  76. 2023.09.18 M – Water From Your Eyes, Everyone’s Crushed (May 2023)
  77. 2023.09.18 M – Solo & Indrė. Full Album (May 2015)
  78. 2023.09.16 S – Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974​-​1979 (Analog Africa Nr. 10)
  79. 2023.09.16 S – [album] Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!
  80. 2023.09.15 F – Good Looking Friends, Wasted Now (Sep 2023)
  81. 2023.09.12 T – Olivia Rodrigo, GUTS (Sep 2023)
  82. 2023.09.11 M – Alabaster dePlume, Come With Fierce Grace (Sep 2023)
  83. 2023.09.10 Su – James Blake, Playing Robots into Heaven (Sep 2023)
  84. 2023.09.05 F T jaimie branch, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
  85. 2023.08.18 F W -Black Country, New Road – ‘Live at Bush Hall‘
  86. 2023.08.16 W – Killer Mike, Michael
  87. 2023.08.16 W – Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
  88. 2023.08.13 Su – Noname, Sundial (Aug 2023)
  89. 2023.07.24 M – Various artists, Barbie the Album (Jul 2023)
  90. 2023.07.20 R – Etran De L’Aïr, Live in Seattle [Bandcamp]
  91. 2023.07.15 S – Blake Mills, Jelly Road (2023)
  92. 2023.07.15 S – Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
  93. 2023.07.15 S – Kieran Hebden & William Tyler – Darkness, Darkness (Youtube)
  94. 2023.07.15 S – Person Pitch again, lol
  95. 2023.07.13 R – Panda Bear, Person Pitch (2007)
  96. 2023.06.15 R – Martin Luke Brown: damn, look at the view ! (2023) – poppy! Or poppie?
  97. 2023.05.27 S – Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation (2011)
  98. 2023.05.20 S – Paul Simon, Seven Psalms (2023)
  99. 2023.05.19 F – Kesha, Gag Order (2023)
  100. 2023.05.19 F – Horse Jumper of Love: Heartbreak Rules (2023)
  101. 2023.05.07 Su – Indigo De Souza: All of This Will End (2023)
  102. 2023.05.07 Su – The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein (2023)
  103. 2023.05.06 S – Fred Again.. & Brian Eno: Secret Life (2023)
  104. 2023.05.06 S – Westerman: An Inbuilt Fault (2023)
  105. 2023.05.06 S – Kara Jackson, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (2023)
  106. 2023.05.06 S – John Depew, John Depew (2021)
  107. 2023.05.05 F – Beach House, New Become EP (2023)
  108. 2023.04.26 W – The Byrds, The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968): Pitchfork reviewed, Marginal Revolution linked to, and I listened… Plus: The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” on The Ed Sullivan Show
  109. 2023.04.15 S – John Luther Adams, Become Ocean (2014): ‘Listening to it, we become ocean.’ [Bandcamp]
  110. 2023.04.08 S – Lana Del Rey, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  111. 2023.04.07 F – George Clanton, Slide (2018) – PC/vaporeware music that sort of sounds like from the 80s but completely makes sense that it is actually from the peak year of music, 2018.
  112. 2023.04.07 F – Hania Rani – Live from Studio S2
  113. 2023.04.07 F – Nora Brown, Long Time To Be Gone (2022): Loved this album. This performance gave me Inside Llewyn Davis vibes.
  114. 2023.03.31 F – Tyler, the Creator, Call Me If You Get Lost (2023)
  115. 2023.03.30 R – Cecile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song (2022)
  116. 2023.03.30 R – Parannoul, After the Night (2023, live)
  117. 2023.03.30 R – Animal Collective, Sung Tongs (2004)
  118. 2023.03.29 W – Black Country, New Road, Live at Bush Hall (2023): This for some reason got me more excited about this band than last album did.
  119. 2023.03.29 W – JPEGMAFIA/Danny Brown, Scaring the Hoes (2023): Good weird.
  120. 2023.03.28 T – White Light / Jo Bogaert – Whale: I Want You To Know Me (https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/whale)
  121. 2023.03.28 T – Tokyo Police Club, Elephant Shell (2008): Bandcamp announced re-press. Love this and band album. A guilty pleasure. Lead singer/bassist described sound as “wide-eyed post-punk with a tendency to get over excited.” Keyboardist insists that the album provides “that nostalgic feeling, the feeling of falling in love with girls and with music and with life.” “Built high with corridors of soaring sonic invention.”
  122. 2023.03.27 M – Evolution of Afro Surinamese Kawina with Tash LC: Not really an album but great youtube watch/listen.
  123. 2023.03.27 M – Kali Uchis, Red Moon in Venus (2023): Poppy backroundy but might have been because I listened to it in the background.
  124. 2023.03.27 M – Owiny Sigoma Band by Owiny Sigoma Band (2023): Loved “Wires“.
  125. 2023.03.23 W – Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V (2023)
  126. 2023.03.23 W – Yves Tumor, Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (2023)
  127. 2023.03.21 T – Fendika & K-Sanchis, GOJO (2023): Lush and Everlasting were highlights from this for me.
  128. 2023.03.20 M – Cloud Control, Dream Cave (2013): Reminded me of Cloud Nothings mixed with Grouplove.
  129. 2023.03.19 Su – 100 gecs: 10,000 gecs [2023]: Okay for the exercise bike.
  130. 2023.03.18 S – Teebs, Collections 01 (2011): Hard to not dig this. While You Dooooo (Extended)
  131. 20223.03.17 F – Souls of Mischief, Hiero Oldies: Volume One (2003): Cool album. Step To My Girl jumped out and realized it is sort of sampled in Vampire Weekend’s Step. Group talking about the song. Original original song by Grover Washington, Jr. is cool too.
  132. 2023.03.05 Su – The Good Samaritans, “No Food Without Taste If By Hunger” [1982]: We have now unearthed “No Food Without Taste If By Hunger” by “The Good Samaritans”, one of the most obscure Nigerian album ever recorded.
  133. 2023.03.02 R – MGMT, Little Dark Age [2018]: Just learned this exist and the whole album rocks? No idea how this slipped past my radar.
  134. 2023.02.18 S – Black Belt Eagle Scout, The Land, the Water, the Sky [2023]
  135. 2023.02.18 S – Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica [2011]
  136. 2023.02.17 F – 파란노을 (Parannoul), After the Magic [2023]: From miserablism to maximalism.
  137. 2023.02.16 R – Caroline Polachek, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You [2023] – Love it but a bit deflating after having these singles for months?
  138. 2023.02.05 Su – Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon [1973] – Listened to because of the connection to Muscle Shoals, AL and this mentioned in Miracle and Wonder. Also has American Tune on it: My favorite example is, do you remember the song, Come and Take Me to the Mardi Gras by him. They go to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which is the famous R&B recording studio to record that song. He brings Jeter with him. He ships up from New Orleans, a brass band, The Onward Marching Band from New Orleans. And the song itself is a calypso tune. So we have a. White Jewish guy from Queens, New York, teams up with a gospel preacher from Harlem with a New Orleans brass band to go to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to do a calypso song when he describes how all those pieces come together.
  139. 2023.02.04 S – King Tuff, Smalltown Stardust [2023] – music video
  140. 2023.02.02 W – Pino Palladino / Blake Mills: Notes With Attachments [2021]: Wow, loved this. Songs: Djurkel, Ekuté.
  141. 2023.01.29 Su – Etran de L’Aïr: Agadez [2022] – Wedding Band from Niger. “stars of the Aïr region.” A family band composed of brothers and cousins. This is music for dancing after all.
  142. 2023.01.25 W – Fela Kuti: Underground System (1992) – Fela often cited an “underground spiritual game” as a weapon with which to fight oppressive regimes and reactionary ideas. He used “underground system” to describe its evil opposite – the network of secret conclaves through which military and political elites conspired together to silence emergent leaders who threatened the status quo. Fela wrote the first draft of the rocket-fuelled title track as a tribute to Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. The two men knew and liked each other: Sankara admired Fela’s music as much as Fela admired Sankara’s espousal of African values and commitment to radical social change. There was evidence that the Nigerian regime had been involved in Sankara’s 1987 assassination: the underground system had been at work.
  143. 2023.01.20 F – sir Was, Letter EP [2020] – went into constant repeat mode on this one.
  144. 2023.01.18 W – Raffy Bushman: E Minor String Quintet + Rhythm [2021] – Also a cool 5 minute doc.
  145. 2023.01.18 W – Oumou Sangaré: Timbuktu [2021] – “West African Music Fused with Blues, Funk, and Rock” and THIS. “Sachez que l’enfant d’une bonne personne peut ne pas lui être semblable.“
  146. 2023.01.18 W – The Whole World Window: Volume 1 [2022] – French Film Music feels like French film music! “Französische Filmmusik”
  147. 2023.01.16 M – Jeff Parker: The New Breed [2016] – Ah, this is where “Cliche” comes from; what a single.
  148. 2023.01.12 R – Unknown To Known: Live at the Crypt [2022]
  149. 2023.01.10 R – The Wilderness Yet: What Holds the World Together [2021]
  150. 2023.01.09 M – Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Mosaic [2021] (Album Trailer)
  151. 2023.01.09 M – Dina Ögon: Dina ögon [ 2021] – Those Swedes!
  152. 2023.01.08 Su – Antonio Adolfo: Octet and Originals [2022]
  153. 2023.01.08 Su – Fred Again: Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) [2021]
  154. 2023.01.08 Su – Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers [2022]
  155. 2023.01.07 S – PinkPantheress: Take Me Home EP [2022]
  156. 2023.01.02 M – Mdou Moctar: Niger EP Vol. 2 – Good! Very different? [2022] Idk!

2022

  1. 2022.12.29 R – Beyoncé: Renaissance (Jul 2022) – Ah, I see why everyone loved this.
  2. 2022.12.25 Su – The Smile: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022 (Dec 2022, show recording)
  3. 2022.12.25 Su – Keaton Henson: Keaton’s Party Playlist
  4. 2022.12.21 T – brakence: hypochondriac (Dec 2022)
  5. 2022.12.11 T – SZA: SOS (Dec 2022)
  6. 2022.12.05 M – Iceage: Seek Shelter (May 2021) – Did not realize that Iceage rocked? Much more pop punk than the metal I was expecting. A rockier Twin Peaks?
  7. 2022.12.04 Su – Richard Dawson: The Ruby Cord (Nov 2022) – “The Hermit” was a bit confusing but like album once it got to “Museum” (which for some reason brought to mind one of the themes from Elf) and then like “The Tip of an Arrow” and really liked “Horse and Rider.” I listened to this was driving across the Colorado plain towards Denver during sunset and saw this big freight train approach from distance then past like a Dune sandworm and the music felt appropriate. Disclaimer that I really did not dial in on the lyrics. Maybe I need to revisit.
  8. 2022.12.03 S – Ethel Cain: Preacher’s Daughter (May 2022): Finally listened to Preacher’s Daughter at recommendation of friend on drive to Des Moines. The album has some range! “American Teenager is good but as the single it was deceptive bc the rest of the album is quite different and less poppy”
  9. 2022.12.01 R – Brittany Howard, Jaime (Sep 2019)
  10. 2022.11.24 W – Tim Heidecker & The Very Good Band – Live in Boulder (Nov 2022)
  11. 2022.11.22 T – Orchestra Baobab: Pirates Choice (1989) via Ted Gioia
  12. 2022.11.21 M – Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Nov 2022)
  13. 2022.11.13 Su – Dawn Richard/Spencer Zahn: Pigments (Nov 2022)
  14. 2022.11.05 S – The Soft Pink Truth: Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Oct 2022)
  15. 2022.10.27 R – Asake: Mr. Money with the Vibe (Sep 2022)
  16. 2022.10.27 R – Frankie Cosmos: Inner World Peace (Oct 2022)
  17. 2022.10.26 W – Beth Orton: Weather Alive (Oct 2022)
  18. 2022.10.26 W – Mdou Moctar: Niger EP Vol. 2 (Oct 2022)
  19. 2022.10.25 T – Lucrecia Dalt: ¡Ay! (Oct 2022)
  20. 2022.10.24 M – Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time (Oct 2022)
  21. 2022.10.23 Su – Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Sep 2021)
  22. 2022.10.23 Su – Taylor Swift: Anti-Hero (Oct 2022)
  23. 2022.10.23 Su – William Basinski (orch. Moston): The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1 by Wordless Music Orchestra (recording)
  24. 2022.10.15 S – Plains: I Walked With You a Ways (Oct 2022)
  25. 2022.10.15 S – Bill Callahan: YTILAER (Oct 2022)
  26. 2022.10.15 S – The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 2022)
  27. 2022.10.07 F – Alvvays: Blue Re (Oct 2022)
  28. 2022.09.28 W – Alex G: God Save The Animals (Sep 2022)
  29. 2022.09.21 W – Emerson Quartet & cellist David Finckel: Schubert’s String Quintet in C, D. 956, Op.Posth 163 (youtube)
  30. 2022.09.21 W – Death Cab for Cutie: Asphalt Meadows (Sep 2022)
  31. 2022.09.14 W – Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
  32. 2022.09.12 M – Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen (2022)
  33. 2022.09.12 M – Jockstrap: I Love You Jennifer B (2022)
  34. 2022.09.12 M – Rachika Nayar: Heaven Come Crashing (2022), sort of like a ravy Explosions in the Sky
  35. 2022.09.12 Su – Jóhann Jóhannsson – Drone Mass (2022, trailer)
  36. 2022.09.11 Su – Pasquale Grasso: Be-Bop! (2022)
  37. 2022.09.11 Su – Tyshawn Sorey (with Aaron Diehl and Matt Brewer): Mesmerism (2022, bandcamp)
  38. 2022.09.11 Su – Black Flower: Magma (2022) – Reminded me of King Gizzard (Ice V music video)
  39. 2022.09.09 F – John Adams: Grand Pianola Music (1981) – youtube
  40. 2022.09.09 F – John Adams: The Chairman Dances (1985) – (Christian Zeal and Activity; Edo de Waart’s 1986 recording of the piece with the San Francisco Symphony (appearing on the 1987 album The Chairman Dances) replaced this interview with a looped, fragmented, non-chronological recording of a Christian sermon on a miracle of Jesus, the healing the man with a withered hand, centered on the words “Why would Jesus have been drawn to a withered hand?” This recording was used on the soundtrack of the 2010 film Shutter Island.)
  41. 2022.09.07 W – The Front Bottoms: Talon of the Hawk (2013)
  42. 2022.09.06 T – Dr L Subramaniam: Raga Bahudari | Brovabarama (Live at Montreal)
  43. 2022.08.20 S – Cass McCombs: Heartmind (Aug 2022)
  44. 2022.08.12 F – Panda Bear/Sonic Boom: Reset (Aug 2022)
  45. 2022.08.10 W – Horse Jumper of Love: Natural Part (Jun 2022) – Full Album Stream
  46. 2022.08.01 M – Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim): Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio (1963)
  47. 2022.07.31 Su – Florist: Florist (Jul 2022)
  48. 2022.07.26 T – Sam Prekop/John McEntire: Sons Of (Jul 2022)
  49. 2022.07.24 Su – Andrew Weber: Late to the Party (2021)
  50. 2022.07.23 S – Ty Segall: Hello, Hi (Jul 2022)
  51. 2022.07.21 R – Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand (1994)
  52. 2022.07.17 S – DJ Shadow: Endtroducing (1996)
  53. 2022.07.17 S – Super Mama Djombo: Na Cambança (1978)
  54. 2022.07.16 F – Glenn Gould’s Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1956)
  55. 2022.06.30 R – Gum Boots: Accordion Jive Hits Vol II – youtube comment from Heidi Berg, The Band name is “Gum Boots”. The Records are on GoGo Records. They have been scrubbed from the Earth by a certain multi-millionaire. Gum Boots – the band (which included ‘boyoyo boys” and others other others! ) put out many records. I have orig 3. They were made in 1980 and 1981. Probably a lot of other years too. / This is an amazingly long collection of their “Jive Accordion Hits” __ * But it does not contain the ultimately Scrubbed from the Planet Though it’s very interesting to hear the same players w/their joyful gorgeous sound on so many like-tracks. Tragic that the Rich are able to SQUASH the POOR. And then get heralded for being generous somehow… The cassettes always had full credits, song titles, producer, record company, and Art work pics on cover – Nonsense that it was ever a “Mystery”! It was not a Mystery — but NOW it’s a mystery 😉 It’s been Squashed. Thanks for this posting & hello back at you!
  56. 2022.06.29 W – The Jazz Epistles: Verse 1 (1960)
  57. 2022.06.29 W – Various Artists: African Music, collected by Laura C. Bolton (1957)
  58. 2022.06.28 T – Alex G: Sloth (2019 fan compilation of singles)
  59. 2022.06.27 M – Zola Jesus: Arkhon (Jun 2022)
  60. 2022.06.27 M – Tim Heidecker: High School (Jun 2022)
  61. 2022.06.26 Su – Daniel Johnston: Hi, How Are You (1983)
  62. 2022.06.25 S – Soccer Mommy: Sometimes, Forever (Jun 2022)
  63. 2022.06.25 S – Paul Simon: Graceland (Aug 1986)
  64. 2022.06.23 R – Yaya Bey: Remember Your North Star
  65. 2022.06.23 R – Billy Bragg: Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy (Feb 1983)
  66. 2022.06.20 M – Bartees Strange: Farm to Table (Jun 2022)
  67. 2022.06.20 M – Perfume Genius: Ugly Season (Jun 2022)
  68. 2022.06.19 Su – The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (1966)
  69. 2022.06.14 T – Janky Star, Grace Ives (June 2022)
  70. 2022.06.05 Su – Kevin Morby: This Is A Photograph (Mar 2022)
  71. 2022.06.03 F – Harry Styles: Harry’s House (May 2022)
  72. 2022.05.30 M – Steve Poltz: Stardust and Satellites
  73. 2022.05.28 S – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: Opalescent
  74. 2022.05.27 F – Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio: Live in Loveland
  75. 2022.05.26 R – Pastor Champion: I Just Want to Be a Good Man
  76. 2022.05.23 M – Bad Bunny, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022)
  77. 2022.05.23 M – The Smile, A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)
  78. 2022.05.12 R – SAULT, AIr (2022): This was so oddly good.
  79. 2022.05.11 W – MJ Lenderman, Boat Songs (2022): Country Pinegrove. I think of all bands as shades of Pinegrove I guess… 33 minutes!
  80. 2022.05.09 M – Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People (2002)
  81. 2022.05.08 Su M – John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1965): A 30 minute-er. Who knew!
  82. 2022.05.04 W – Runner, Always Repeating (album): Hovvdy plus Pinegrove? Plus just a great execution of the 30 minute album.
  83. 2022.04.27 W – Kurt Vile, (watch my moves)
  84. 2022.04.17 Su – Father John Misty, Chloë and the Next 20th Century (Apr 2022)
  85. 2022.04.15 F – PENDANT, Harp (Apr 2022)
  86. 2022.04.11 M – Hands of the Heron, 13 Moons (Feb 2021): Gioia, bandcamp
  87. 2022.04.11 M – Steve Reich, Different Trains (1988): three-movement piece for string quartet and tape
  88. 2022.04.07 R – Alabaster dePlume, Gold – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love (Mar 2022)
  89. 2022.04.06 W – Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
  90. 2022.04.01 F – Warm Chris, Aldous Harding (Mar 2022)
  91. 2022.03.27 Su – Destroyer, Labyrinthitis (Mar 2022)
  92. 2022.03.19 S – Charli XCX, Crash (Mar 2022): Lots of rhyming with Pop 2
  93. 2022.03.19 S – Oso Oso, Sore Thumb (Mar 2022)
  94. 2022.03.18 F – Rosalía, MOTOMAMI (Mar 2022): A bunch of two minutes attention grabbers.
  95. 2022.03.13 Su – Laraaji, Vision Songs, Vol. 1 (1984)
  96. 2022.03.12 S – My People, Cha Wa (Apr 2021)
  97. 2022.03.07 M – Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (May 2013)
  98. 2022.03.05 S – Big Thief, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (2022): So many good songs…
  99. 2022.03.02 W – Animal Collective, Time Skiffs (Feb 2022)
  100. 2022.02.28 M – Hurray for the Riff Raff, Life on Earth (Feb 2022)
  101. 2022.02.25 F – Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude (1971)
  102. 2022.02.19 Su – DFTK, Yung Kayo (Feb 2022): Fun young thug-ish album
  103. 2022.02.19 Su – Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle : Live at the Penthouse 1966
  104. 2022.02.19 Su – Philippe Herreweghe / Staatskapelle Dresden: Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol. 51: Johann Sebastian Bach: Gioia, “(“Memento Mori” Pandemic Concert for an Audience of Ten)”
  105. 2022.02.17 R – Beach House, Once Twice Melody (Feb 2022, Sub Pop): “You don’t listen to Once Twice Melody, you dissolve into it.“
  106. 2022.02.15 T – Glitch Princess, yeule (Feb 2022): Did not make it through the last 4 hour track (yet) but the rest of the listen is a post-post pop trip.
  107. 2022.02.09 W – Tony Karapetyan Trio (with Sebastian Studnitzky): Point Of View (#gioia – how is this so fun? I try so hard to push myself into jazz and this just yanked me in)
  108. 2022.02.09 W – Hania Rani – Live from Studio S2 (Mar 2022, Gondwana Records): #gioia I mean this is so listenable. And gets that all-time music word:propulsive. ALlo feels “narrative”y?
  109. 2022.02.07 – Pingrove, 11:11 (Jan 2022, Rough Trade): More foot-tapping head nodding pinegrove!
  110. 2022.02.07 – Mitski, Laurel Hell (Feb 2022 through Dead Oceans): Weird fun.
  111. 2022.02.03 R – Forth Wanderers, Tough Love (Nov 2014): A 25 minute all-timer
  112. 2022.02.03 R – The Boys with Perpetual Nervousness, Songs from Another Life (Feb 2021): A Gioia 100 of 2021
  113. 2022.02.02 W – Khalab & M’berra Ensemble, M’berra (2021)
    • Gioia 100: Collective of Malian Musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in Southeast Mauritania
  114. 2022.01.27 R – Dijon, Absolutely (Nov 2021)
  115. 2022.01.24 M – Third Eye Blind, Third Eye Blind (1997)
  116. 2022.01.24 M – Maurice Ravel, La valse, M. 72 · Basque National Orchestra · Robert Trevino
    • Alex Ross: Let the Basques’ rip-roaring rendition of Ravel’s “La Valse” stand in for the rest. It explodes with characterful touches: sinister noodling of bass clarinet, slashing cross-rhythms, kitschy swoops of portamento, concussive thuds on the bass drum. At the same time, Trevino maintains irresistible momentum, absorbing each detail into the general crescendo. “La Valse” was composed in the wake of the First World War, and conductors often make a point of enacting a brutal stampede toward catastrophe. Trevino doesn’t skimp on the menace, but he and his musicians keep swinging to the end, dancing into darkness.
  117. 2022.01.24 M – Jana Horn, Optimism (Jan 2022)
    • Hauntingly simple? I liked this album a lot. Re-visit with lyrics at some point
  118. 2022.01.23 Su – Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good and Green Again (Jan 2022)
  119. 2022.01.23 Su – Mike Cooper, Rayon Hula (2004)
  120. 2022.01.23 Su – Ralph Vaughan Williams, Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3, 1922)
  121. 2022.01.19 W – Symphony No. 7 In E Major performed by Andris Nelsons Gewandhausorchester and Written by Anton Bruckner
    • “You enjoy Bruckner?”
    • “Yes. His Seventh Symphony. I always find the third movement particularly uplifting.”
    • “I often listen to his Ninth Symphony,” I chimed in. Another pretty meaningless statement.
  122. 2022.01.18 T – Wilco, Summerteeth (Mar 1999)
  123. 2022.01.18 T – FKA twigs, CAPRISONGS (Jan 2022)
  124. 2022.01.12 W – The Weeknd, Dawn FM (Jan 2022)
  125. 2022.01.01 S – Hailu Mergia, Tezeta
  1. 2021.12.29 W – Nico, Chelsea Girl (Oct 1967)
  2. 2021.12.29 W – Bill CallahanBonnie “Prince” Billy, Blind Date Party (Dec 2021)
  3. 2021.12.28 T – Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (Apr 1976)
  4. 2021.12.25 S – Silent Room (Enzo Carniel & Filippo Vignato), Aria (2021)
  5. 2021.12.24 F – Various Artist, Edo Funk Explosion Vol​.​1 (2021)
  6. 2021.12.24 F – Kiazi Malonga, Tembo Kia Ngoma (2021)
  7. 2021.12.23 R – Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What (2011)
  8. 2021.12.19 Su – The Wrens, The Meadowlands (2003)
  9. 2021.12.19 Su – Aeon Station, Observatory (Dec 2021)
  10. 2021.12.14 T – Jeff Parker, Forfolks (Dec 2021)
  11. 2021.12.13 M – King Sunny Adé – Juju Music (1982)
  12. 2021.12.11 S – From All Sides, Bola Sete and Vince Guaraldi (1965)
  13. 2021.12.11 S – Balimaya Project, Wolo So (2021)
  14. 2021.12.10 F – Promises, Floating Points; Pharoah Sanders; and the London Symphony Orchestra (2021)
  15. 2021.12.07 T – Miho Hazama, The Danish Radio Big Band, Imaginary Visions (2021)
  16. 2021.12.07 T – Fair Oriana, Two Voices
  17. 2021.12.05 Su – Professor Longhair, Fess at Home
  18. 2021.12.05 Su – Hassan Wargui, Tiddukla (Nov 2021)
  19. 2021.12.05 Su – Makthaverskan, För Allting (Nov 2021)
    • Gothenburg Beach House vibes? Love it
  20. 2021.12.05 Su – Hour, Tiny Houses (2018)
  21. 2021.12.05 Su – Ryan Dann, Joe Pera Soundtrack
  22. 2021.11.26 F – Courtney Barnett, Things Take Time, Take Time (Nov 2021
    • This album rock; why not more promotion and buzz?
  23. 2021.11.21 Su – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Ban – The Legendary 1979 No Dukes Concerts (1979, live)
  24. 2021.11.21 Su – Kikagaku Moyo (2018)
  25. 2021.11.20 S – Clams Casino, Winter Flower (Nov 2021)
    • Rap enya and mario
  26. 2021.11.20 S – serpentwithfeet, DEACON’S Grove EP (Nov 2021)
  27. 2021.11.14 Su – Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy, Son (Nov 2021)
    • Last song… woo
  28. 2021.11.14 Su – Jonny Greenwood, Spencer soundtrack (Nov 2021)
  29. 2021.11.14 Su – Boz Scaggs,Silk Degrees (1976)
  30. 2021.11.12 F – dltzk, Frailty (Nov 2021)
  31. 2021.11.09 T – Dijon, Absolutely (Nov 2021)
  32. 2021.11.06 S – Snail Mail, Valentine (Nov 2021)
  33. 2021.11.04 R – Yemi, Heartmusic (Nov 2021)
  34. 2021.11.01 M – aya, im hole (Oct 2021)
  35. 2021.11.01 M -Dinosaur Jr., Emptiness at the Sinclair (Oct 2021, Live Album)
  36. 2021.10.30 S – Lily Konigsberg, Lily We Need to Talk Now (Oct 2021)
  37. 2021.10.30 S – ASAP Rocky, Live. Love. ASAP (Oct 2021)
  38. 2021.10.30 S – The War on Drugs, I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Oct 2021)
  39. 2021.10.26 T – Explosions in the Sky, Bid Bend (Aug 2021)
  40. 2021.10.26 T – The Clash, Combat Rock
  41. 2021.10.25 M – Parquet Courts, Sympathy for Life (Oct 2021)
  42. 2021.10.24 Su – JPEGMAFIA, LP! (Oct 2021)
  43. 2021.10.23 S – Lana Del Rey, Blue Banisters (Oct 2021)
  44. 2021.10.19 T – Tems, For Broken Ears (2020)
  45. 2021.10.19 T – Dave Matthews Band, Crash (Apr 1996)
  46. 2021.10.19 T – The Beatles, Let It Be (Super Deluxe)
  47. 2021.10.18 M – The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Illusory Walls (Oct 2021)
  48. 2021.10.17 Su – Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Conern, Lil Ugly Mane (
  49. 2021.10.13 W – Rilo Kiley, Take Offs and Landings (Jul 2001)
  50. 2021.10.12 T – Sufjan Stevens, A Beginner’s Mind (Sep 2021)
  51. 2021.10.12 T – Wiki, Half God (Oct 2021)
  52. 2021.10.11 M – BADBADNOTGOOD, Talk Memory (Oct 2021)
  53. 2021.10.08 S – Terry Riley, In C (1964)
  54. 2021.10.08 F – Porches, All Day Gentle Hold! (Oct 2021)
  55. 2021.10.02 S – Illuminati Hotties, Let Me Do One More (Oct 2021)
  56. 2021.10.01 F – Tara Clerkin Trio, In Spring (Oct 2021)
  57. 2021.09.29 W – Tom Misch, Quarantine Sessions (Sep 2021)
  58. 2021.09.28 T – My Idea, That’s My Idea (Sep 2021)
  59. 2021.09.28 T – Brian Eno, Music for Airports: Live (Bang on a Can) (2008?)
  60. 2021.09.24 F – Mas Ysa, Worth (Feb 2014)
  61. 2021.09.23 R – The Avalanches, Since I Left You (Nov 2020)
  62. 2021.09.22 W – Andy Shauf, Wilds (Sep 2020)
  63. 2021.09.19 Su – Nala Sinephro, Space 1.8 (Sep 2021)
  64. 2021.09.19 Su – King Krule, You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down (September 2021)
  65. 2021.09.17 F – Low, HEY WHAT (September 2021)
  66. 2021.09.06 M – Big Red Machine, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? (September 2021)
  67. 2021.09.03 F – Indigo De Souza, Any Shape You Take (August 2021)
  68. 2021.09.03 F – Turnstile, Glow On (August 2021)
  69. 2021.08.29 Su – Kanye West, Donda (August 2021)
  70. 2021.08.14 S – Water From Your Eyes, Structure (August 2021)
  71. 2021.07.24 Su – Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funny haha (June 2021)
  72. 2021.07.18 F – Yes, Fragile (November 1971)
  73. 2021.07.12 M – Mdou Moctar’s, Afrique Victime (May 2021)
  74. 2021.06.29 T – Lord Huron, Long Lost (May 2021)
    • Didn’t grab me in but had some good ones
  75. 2021.06.23 W – Paramore, Riot!
  76. 2021.06.22 T – Kyu Sakamoto, Best 9
    • More like best 3! amirite?
  77. 2021.06.22 T – Machine Gun Kelly, Tickets to My Downfall
  78. 2021.06.20 Su – Japanese Breakfast, Jubiliee (June 2021)
    • Opening and closing songs carry it through
  79. 2021.06.10 R – Rostam, Changephobia (June 2021)
  80. 2021.05.24 M – Arooj Aftab, Vulture Prince
    • Ted Gioia tweeted out; I found it okay. Reminded me of Age of Empires II themes actually
    • Maybe have to re-visit. Clearly missed whatever the buzz is about
  81. 2021.05.20  – Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  82. 2021.05.19 W – The Rollings Stones, Exile on Main St.
    • Wow, so good; also, ohhh this is Twin Peaks…
  83. 2021.03.24 W – Kurt Vile, Constant Hitmaker
    • So underrated
  84. 2021.03.23 T – Brooklyn Rider, Healing Modes
    • Five New Chamber Works with Possible Healing Properties
  85. 2021.03.21 S – The Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
  86. 2021.03.12 F – Drakeo the Ruler, Thank You For Using GTL.
  87. 2021.02.28 Su – Jorge Ben Jor, A Tábua De Esmeralda 
  88. 2021.02.28 Su – Gilberto Gil, Expresso 2222 
  89. 2021.02.27 S – Novos Baianos, Acabou Chorare
    • Wow, classic
  90. 2021.02.27 S – Cloud Nothings, The Shadow I Remember (Feb 2021)
  91. 2021.02.27 S – Julien Baker, Little Oblivions (Feb 2021)
    • Good, a little forgettable though as I already can’t remember it 
  92. 2021.02.25 R – The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson
  93. 2021.02.25 R – Stefano Bollani, Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar
    • Solo Piano Reworking of Influential Rock Opera
  94. 2021.02.23 T – Noah Clinel Mountain Opus
    • Solo Banjo
  95. 2021.02.22 M – Cassandra Jenkins, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (February 2021)
  96. 2021.02.16 T – The Weeknd, Trilogy (2012)
    • So good
    • There has to be a Cocteau Twins connection
    • CT apprently dealt with cocaine
    • Fifty-fifty Clown at 1:30 mark sounds like it is going to rip into I Feel It Coming
  97. 2021.02.15 M – Chick Corea, Plays (2020)
  98. 2021.02.10 W – Louise Bock – Sketch for Winter VII – Abyss: For Cello
    • Gioia 
    • Mystical Drone Music for Cello
    • It certainly droned
  99. 2021.02.09 T – Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow, Life Goes On
    • Jazz Trio
    • I do not know enough about jazz to appreciate it any of it in its specifcs
  100. 2021.01.21 R – Linda Ronstadt, Heart Like a Wheel
    • Haven’t even heard of her until I saw mentioned in a pitfork album
    • Kick butt soft core rock!
  101. 2021.01.13 W – William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops
    • Beautiful first song on the massive four album project
    • Mapping and demapping sonically
  102. 2021.01.08 F – Cocanha, Puput
  103. John Luther Adams & the JACK Quartet, Lines Made by Walking
    • Contemporary Landscape Music for String Quartet
  104. Tunde Adebimpe, A Warm Weather Ghost
    • Soulful Synthpop Meets Classical Music
  105. Sam Amidon, Sam Amidon
    • 19th Century Singing Style Juxtaposed with 21st Century Soundscapes
  106. Anakronos, The Red Book of Ossory
    • Medieval Music Mixed with Folk Sounds, Jazz and Celtic Witchcraft
  107. Yukihiro Atsumi, Kachofugetsu
    • Traditional Japanese Music Updated with Guitar
    • Kind of forgettable for me
  108. Jeremy Beck, By Moonlight
    • Contemporary Classical Music from Kentucky
    • “Just” jazz
  109. Art Blakey and  The Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin’
    • Previously Unreleased Album by a Classic Hard Bop Combo
    • “Just” jazz