For the last ten years, the musical landscape felt like a lonely, pixelated blur, awash with digital self-involvement. The world fell into a rut of mumble rap and solitary laptop producers making noises that, honestly, meant very little. I reached a point where I struggled to care about new releases, often preferring the silence of…
It’s been a long time since I made a proper playlist—one that wasn’t just a random collection of songs to accompany a morning run or a commute to the grocery store. A proper playlist requires effort, and it unfolds like a conversation between friends across different decades. This one is for fall, again. I’ve made…
A decade is not a clean break. It carries forward the unresolved from the previous 10 years. When I turned 30, I thought I had a grip on who I was. When I turned 40, I realized I had only been guessing, for the most part. In between, there were songs, many, many songs. Some…
A new playlist was pieced together during this season of isolation and change. I went on a two-hour walk the other night, and not a soul was to be found. Not a car, a dog walker, or an evening runner. If one were to close one’s eyes, one might hear the sound a seed makes…
10 Shortlisted Albums In no particular order. Vampire Weekend // Modern Vampires of the City Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx // We’re New Here Goldfrapp // Tales of Us Real Estate // Days Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti // Before Today Sleigh Bells // Treats Grouper // A I A: Alien Observer Jessie Ware // Devotion…
A decade is a long time to listen. These 100 tracks weren’t chosen because they topped charts (though a few did), but because I believe they are objectively better than most mainstream music released in this time period. Spanning indie, alternative, rap, R&B, classical, electronic, and ambient, this playlist reflects the wide net the 2010s cast across my listening habits.
This list was hard to make. After all, to love their music is to need their music everywhere. There’s a Beatles track for most moments of my life; Here are 20 tracks that represent most of those moments.
20. Till There Was You from With The Beatles (1963)
19. I’m So Tired from The White Album (1968)
18. Carry That Weight from Abbey Road (1969)
17. I’m Only Sleeping from Revolver (1966)
16. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away from Help! (1965)
Since I was 20 years old, I have compiled a list of the top 10 tracks of all time. This has been an annual occurrence, simply to gauge how my listening habits change from year to year. For the last, almost 10 years now, my top track of all time has always been “Sometimes” by My Bloody Valentine and this year, it’s being bumped.
#15. High And Low dir. Akira Kurosawa (Japan – 1963)