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These guys are also not at Coachella, but I’ve really been appreciating their work for a while now and their particular brand of instrumental goodness was exactly what the doctor ordered for today.

This artist I haven’t seen yet, but will be seeing her next week at Coachella, so I’m sorta back on track now. Does it count as a milestone if you don’t notice that it’s happened?

Of course I immediately break my own guideline and listen to an album from an artist that I have not seen at Coachella. I guess I’ll expand it to bands that I heard about at Coachella or from people who also work at Coachella. And I’ll just have to hope my memory improves slightly, soContinue reading “#699 – Africa Avenue by The Paperhead”

As Coachella approaches, I’m going to be listening to albums by artists who I discovered at the festival. The first is Sofi Tukker. Not sure which year I first saw her but I vividly remember her “fuck you Donald Trump” song.

I came across the name of this artist in a Reddit comment. I can’t remember the topic of said subreddit. Maybe r/popping? Wherever it came from, I really like this album.

I haven’t really listened to Gorillaz much since their first couple of albums, so I don’t really know what I was expecting of them, but this surely wasn’t it. The array of guest performers, plus the varied styles of these songs made this album much more of an amorphous mish-mash than I was expecting. IContinue reading “#696 – Plastic Beach by Gorillaz”

The Grammys were last night and, because I’m so out of touch with anything new, provided me with a lengthy to-do list of artists and albums. I’m not saying I’ve been having trouble picking from day to day, but it is great to have a preordained menu to choose from. Anyway, this is the firstContinue reading “#695 – Collapsed in Sunbeams by Arlo Parks”

More and more as time, and this blog, go on, I get recommendations for albums that I have already listened to. The interesting thing is how much that happens on the day or two following a particular selection. A more superstitious man would try to ascribe some kind of meaning to that.

I love it when a contemporary artist is able to capture the feel of music production from a different era. Albums that were made completely analog just have a different sound from digitally produced work. I’m not saying one is right or better than the other, they’re just different, because they are made by differentContinue reading “#693 – Sun Structures by Temple”

Grimes came up in conversation at work today, mostly because of her Elon Musk baby mama status, but that quickly led to looking up her bio on various platforms. She is quite the interesting character, who claims to have put our her final “earth album.” I can’t wait to find out what that means.