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Awesome mix. Only recognize Yaz's "Don't Go" and Ultravox's "Mr. X".

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+ Horse Lords - The Common Task Jam City - Pillowland Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure Oliver Coates - skins n slime Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind

A mix of comfort and new parameters for me, but generally a very good year for music, in my opinion. Here's my definitively subjective top ten: T1. Arthur - Hair of the Dog T1. Kate NV - Room for the Moon 3. Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle 4. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now 5. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline 6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never 7. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 8. DJ Python - Mas Amable 9. The Weeknd - After Hours 10. Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

Great album ^^^

Only on my 2nd listen, but digging this a lot. My favorite of hers so far.

Love this LP. Whole thing is bangers.

Pretty solid year. My favorites: 1. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma -- Tracing Back The Radiance [LP] 2. Lanark Artefax -- Live at No Bounds Festival [Live Set] 3. Ssaliva -- Unshielded [EP] 4. Wild Nothing -- Blue Wings [Single] 5. Boy Harsher -- Careful [LP] 6. Daniel Lopatin -- Uncut Gems [LP] 7. Ernest Hood -- Neighborhoods [Reissue/1975] 8. June Chikuma -- Les Archives [Reissue/1986] 9. Oren Ambarchi -- Simian Angel [LP] 10. Andy Stott -- It Should Be Us [EP] 11. Raveena -- Lucid [LP] 12. Lanark Artefax -- Corra Linn [EP] 13. Kelly Mora

Yeah I liked the movie a lot when I saw it in theaters, but listening to the Good Time soundtrack on its own doesn't do much for me. A bit too noodle-y, IMO. Still really enjoying this one though.

Wow, this is great. I wasn’t super into the Good Time OST, but am really digging this. Dangelis is now bae.

that live set is big bonkers

Just getting to this now, but very fun indeed. Feel like it's a sincere effort, situated between PC Music, Kelela's last LP, and Sophie's last LP. Drawn in by the sound design, stayed for the depth of ideas.

what in tarnation

"Alexa, why is Ssaliva so good?" Thanks for the heads up!

You’re not alone. I’ve noticed this a lot lately with younger artists - pretentious nonsense used to cover up absolutely abysmal music. A lot of Holly Herndon's peers and shitload of post-dubstep post-grime stuff falls in this category but I'd be hard-pressed to put her in this critique, even though it's one I share. A lot of 'avant-garde' stuff with heavy PR and hyperbolic write-ups often end up sounding like 90s era MIDI music piss takes. And that's the "experimental" stuff - synthpop and art pop is even more eye roll inducing, especially bands of art students just rehashing post-punk