i've been listening to a couple apple music japanese music playlists, and i feel like i've got a buncha stuff i want to post from those now. this is probably in those playlists as "hey, it's a city pop throwback like all those people on youtube like," but it sounds to me like steely dan

just going to slowly post 70% of this album track by track over the next few weeks probably

i haven't gotten around to listening to the new future islands record yet, but i did catch their live stream last week, and like half the set was pre-singles stuff! i forgot how good in evening air and on the water are

a) this song's amazing b) i refactored everything about music playback on jam buds so lmk if anything's broken. gonna send out a newsletter soon regarding this and other stuff, i think!

twice keeps putting out incredibly boring singles but sometimes they hide fun stuff like this on the albums/eps

peter gabriel-era genesis has mostly not been my bag, but i like this song since it has this ridiculously big hook for a 70s prog rock song. fun bassline, too i like when prog rock bands make a pop song as a flex, just to say, "yeah, we *could* make more palatable stuff like this, but we choose not to..."

can't tell if grime is back, or if it never left and i just haven't paid nearly enough attention

we all have the tony hawk song stuck in our heads, collectively, now i'm also regretting giving away my board a couple moves ago and might get one

supposedly this song came out two weeks ago but i'm convinced it came out like a decade ago on a dfa singles compilation 2000s indie-rock-dance playlists have been my guilty pleasure lately so this is perfect

this is a "spotify singles" so sry apple music ppl but it's worth clickin on the youtube the original of this song blew me away the first time i heard it four or so years ago and i never would have been guessed that it could be covered so well by a baritone country singer

the exact correct amount of cute i need rn. this is like a perfect 30 minute album

not sure what to make of this new killers album being as good as it is. the most annoying part of the killers is how brandon flowers sings every chorus like it's his last, so i really like how he chills the hell out here

give reggie watts an orchestra for any damn song he wants to sing

will continue to take all of the garage revival that the world wants to make

i try not to double dip but this one is also good

this album is a higher fi version of a Lo Fi Beat To Study And/Or Relax To and i enjoy it a lot the concept of productivity music is basically a capitalism scam but listening to this while working makes me happier than listening to nothing