2023 Mix 26
New mix! NewJeans, Palehound, Shamir, Mahalia, Hannah Diamond, RAC, and a French group with a lax approach to stylized diacritics.
New mix with music from all over the place.
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2023 Mix 24! Lots of good stuff on here, some of which I missed so far and poached from midyear recommendations.
2023 Mix 23
New mix! You know what to do – politely ignore but eventually listen to the playlist at lightning speed to round out your year-end list for stuff you missed!
New mix: Go_A with a melancholy mermaid, Peggy Gou with a house throwback, Fefe Dobson with a bratty steal-yr-girlfriend banger.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6CXjSMgCVAPutHOjLgVSBo?si=b996a8f1339a4351
New mix – Beverley Knight, Nia Archives, Anz, Amaarae, Angel Olsen, couple good things from Quebec.
New mix, in which I once again float my idea that Taylor Swift’s career trajectory is the same as Weezer’s (a Tumblr post from a decade ago!) and hence only has two “eras,” the Before and After. Also some Polish Christian kid pop that makes me want to drive skewers into my eyeballs, but in a good way. My children adore it.
School’s out for summer (almost), so here’s a summery mix. Teenage Fanclub, Caitlin Rose, YACHT, Turkish pop that led me to Anatolian rock from the 70s, 7-minute Lindstrøm sunshine, music from Ghana and Côte D'Ivoire, and a v long minimal techno thing from Matthew Dear.
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2023 Mix 18: BABY I AM A MACHINE
Lots of A.I. talk but only one song with A.I. in it.
Next mix (number 17), with some familiar faves (Kate NV, Cornelius, Altin Gün, Chemical Brothers) but mostly new to me. I jump aboard a modest hype train for Sweeping Promises, extol the virtues of outcast nerd girls in rap (Bbyafricka), and think about Cameroonian music and where its foundational sense of 6 comes from. Oh, and there’s a completely bonkers synth solo at the end.