What I’m listening to
I feel like doing these approximately once a week is a pretty nice cadence. So I think I’ll start scheduling these to go up every, say, Saturday. Yes, that sounds good.
Here’s some musical-listening highlights since the last one:
- two months of moments by glaciaere: some really nice heartfelt FM synthy stuff that spans a bunch of different genres
- Six Foot Moon by Distractor: 80s nu-wave for the modern era
- Full Of It by Summer Cannibals: Some great female-led power punk rock, I’m totally here for it
- Black Box of Jazz: This is an amazing compilation of some of the best music that jazz has had to offer. I happened upon this collection when I was visiting Hong Kong back in 2000, and it’s an essential for anyone who has any interest in the genre.
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus: Speaking of jazz, this one is also particularly amazing, although it probably helps to be familiar with a bunch of jazz already to fully appreciate some of the musical humor in it. Mingus is one of the jazz greats.
- Pivot by Amoeba (one of the many projects of Robert Rich): I’m not sure how to describe this as anything other than “experimental rock.” There’s some great grooves in this accompanying some great noises. I’m not sure how I ended up with this in my collection (way back in 2019 if my file timestamps are to be believed) but I’m glad I did.
- Duo de Bois: Six Sonatas for Flute and Violin: It’s a shame Magnatune has ceased operations because they had some really excellent classical music on offer. This is an excellent recording of a great classical work. I can only seem to find it for sale on Apple Music these days but it’s licensed CC by-nc-sa so it should be possible to obtain freely. If only there were a way.
- Drum Machine Dreams by Stevia Sphere: Nice lush ambient music to fill your ears to
- Expert in a Dying Field by The Beths: This album was the big hotness when it first came out a couple years ago, and it’s well-deserved.
- FREQUENCY gift by glitched puppet: Really awesome lo-fi abstract ambient chillwave groove things.
My scrobbles don’t reflect all of this, unfortunately, as I have upgraded my office computer and the last.fm scrobbler wasn’t properly autostarting. I’ve (hopefully) fixed it going forward, at least.