Author Archives: eddiespageti

As Spotify becomes more and more dialed in with my listening habits, I frequently see entire categories on the app that are right up my alley. Today’s selection came from one called “instrumental Americana.” While that seems like an unnecessarily specific genre description (a frequent occurrence at this point in music history) I certainly haveContinue reading “#1205 – Into The Light by Marisa Anderson”

I first heard of these guys when they played at Coachella some seven or eight years ago, around the time they released their first album, which is a powerhouse of stripped-mall down musical energy. Anyone who can fire up an audience with just a bass and drums is worth checking out, in my book. IContinue reading “#1204 – Back to the Water Below by Royal Blood”

I know some people whose musical tastes seem very narrow to me, to the point where I find myself (perhaps unfairly) discounting their recommendations. This seems to just be another mental bad habit of mine that needs to be broken. That’s why it feels so beneficial to me to be proven wrong in such situations,Continue reading “#1203 – The English Riviera by Metronomy”

I’ve been finding a lot of cool singer/songwriters lately, spurred on by my affection for the work of Dan Reeder and others. There’s something so appealing to me about someone who maybe doesn’t have the most polished voice out there, but has such amazing content to their songs that you are transported to the timeContinue reading “#1202 – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle by Bill Callahan”

We listened to this album on our drive from my Mom’s house in Connecticut to my in-laws’ in Pennsylvania. I was sort of aware of this artist, having overheard at least a part of a song from this album. While it’s probably not my favorite selection of the past few weeks, there are definitely aContinue reading “#1201 – These Songs are for Anyone Sick of Earth by Aliah Sheffield”

Here we are again, reaching another big, round number which apparently constitutes an achievement of some kind. It feels arbitrary to me, despite the indication of the passage of time that it provides for me, lessening the Groundhog’s Day effect to some extent. With that attitude in mind, it feels fitting to have picked anContinue reading “#1200 – Cinder by Dirty Three”

This is the second Low album I’ve listened to as a part of the NAAD project, with the first being I Could Live In Hope, from 1994. It’s interesting experiencing a band in this way, only knowing them from a couple of snapshots of their career, a little over twenty years apart. As impressive asContinue reading “#1199 – Ones and Sixes by Low”

This, Hozier’s third album, is receiving a pretty warm reception in the first couple weeks since its release. His previous album (2019’s Wasteland, Baby!), did not have the powerhouse single that his first album had, an all-too-common tale in the music biz where the second album doesn’t live up to the expectations created by theContinue reading “#1198 – Unreal Unearth by Hozier”

I never got that into The Beach Boys, but since hearing this album I’ve read a bit about their trials and tribulations with the pressures and problems that come along with becoming rich and famous at a young age. This was not a super commonly known issue at the time, so there was not muchContinue reading “#1197 – Pacific Ocean Blue & Bambu by Dennis Wilson”

As your frame of reference in music history grows, so too does the awareness of the sound and feel of different periods. This album, for example, bears so many of the hallmarks of music production in the 1960s, complete with the classic sitar and keys sounds that feature heavily in that era. Not unlike theContinue reading “#1196 – Sunshine Superman by Donovan”