- reverse chronological "gay gay music video night" style playlist-diary, a.k.a., "hey... I made you a mixtape..."
- 20250418
- Jane Remover,
"Dancing with your eyes closed"
- this class makes me think more about techno-dystopia than I would on a normal, chronically-offline basis. but because I now drown in the agony of broken code I'm listening to this, which is louder than most things I listen to nowadays
- Addison Rae,
"Headphones On"
- though if I were mentally healthier I would be listening to this instead. I really am considering buying her debut album on cd like this single run is so unprecedented. so ethereal, so well-studied and curated. closer to my soul I feel
- 20250415
- Bladee,
"Keys to the City"
- it was cloudy but bright today, so I put on this album. I will always take happy bladee over sad bladee; there's a sense of wonder to post-333 bladee that I think is more engaging and raises more aesthetic possibilities for me
- Erika de Casier,
"Lucky"
- one of the most artful interpretations of online underground music aesthetics I can think of in both sound and visuals. the flashing and overexposure in the video is deeply emotional to me it's like pure desire
- 20250414
- Jess Williamson,
"Time Ain't Accidental"
- who knew a simple drum machine could do so much work! I know it gets a bad rep but country music has this grounding effect I don't get from other genres that I really feel here, like life could be okay small
- Hurray for the Riff Raff,
"Hawkmoon"
- though this rather has the opposite effect. my feet are on the ground but my heart is to the sky! the story of losing a fellow queer loved one and the secret place they allow you to enter is deeply heartbreaking
- 20250413
- SWV,
"Right Here (Human Nature Radio Mix)"
- went to boondocks coffee after finishing writing my publication's call for submissions! I keep not knowing how I'll survive this internship class. feel like benjamin's backwards angel. but they played this song!
- Alice Coltrane,
"Blue Nile"
- really was a day of music for me! went to the free harp concert at the hammer (got there just in time to be at the front of the line) and ended up writing a poem there too! this was on the setlist. amazing to hear a harp in person
- 20250412
- Brandy,
"WOW"
- the Best track on this album is track 5 (when you touch me), but I was in a car with a friend (we are both scared for us and the world) and this was the first song I put on the aux. the past flashed in my eyes like the sun
- Hundred Waters,
"Xtalk"
- arguably my tolerance for oklou was built up as a kid by this, another electronic album that frustrated rockists for being too quiet. but where oklou pulls from y2k, I can't quite trace which bygone era this draws from
- 20250411
- Aretha Franklin,
"A Change Is Gonna Come"
- SCREAMING this song reminds me of the hope I feel at the california adventure park for some reason. such a crystalline and perfect pop album I'm kicking myself for not buying it amoeba today AAAAAA!!!
- M.I.A.,
"Teqkilla"
- instead I bought this because it was 2.99. to me this is like miss anthropocene in that both are frictional tech-accelerationist pop statements by cancelled women except this album doesn't have the baggage of fucking Elon Musk
- 20250410
- Joanna Newsom,
"Sapokanikan"
- my biggest point of pride is getting into her in middle school before I could fully understand what the lyrics mean. lyrical voice so strong it made me get a little formalist with my last workshop piece. album feels like home
- Kelela,
"Blue Light"
- yes it is critically acclaimed—it still deserves a reappraisal. I knew she was "good" since all the way back in hallucinogen days but I only really got into this album this year which was (checks watch) 8 years too late
- 20250409
- Frou Frou,
"Hear Me Out"
- coding this website I never expected to come back to using my computer as a journal (which is itself not a poem). something intimate, I guess? in that I don't catch you looking. I think of the future and sunsets to this song
- Prefab Sprout,
"Bonny"
- oh I love this song so much it makes me want to throw up. I don't know how they did it! so crazy I have referenced it in two poems now. not many artists I reference twice! also I have written enough to scroll now yayyyy
- 20250408
- Lady Gaga,
"G.U.Y."
- look I know we're starting off mainstream but artpop really deserves her flowers like. y'all did her dirty! has it aged the best? no. but this song is on it. do what u want should have been a solo cut istg
- Oklou,
"harvest sky (feat. underscores)"
- OKAY EVERYBODY SHUT UP this is my aoty so far I DO NOT CARE IF YOU THINK IT'S BORING. the girls that get it get it and the girls that don't don't. album so good people on twitter thought she was trans
let's go back home!