Playlist #54

Being that it's been over a month since I've posted on here, for the most part, I feel that it'd suffice to just post the names of artists I've been listening to.

1. Daft Punk
2. Answer - Tyler, the Creator
3. Sapphire - Bonobo
4. Lætitia Sadier
5. Rabbit in Your Headlights - Unkle Ft. Thom Yorke
6. RobertaFlack - Flying Lotus Ft. Dolly
7. I've Seen It All - Bjork Ft. Thom Yorke
8. Portishead
9. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
10. Sheila - Atlas Sound (A newly-minted favorite of mine.)
11. Unknown Mortal Orchestra (new album)
12. These Things - Looper
13. Tame Impala (Gonna see them in May!)
14. Beach Fossils (Caught a little more than half of their show last week. Great live.)
15. Broadcast
16. Com Truise (I usually don't care for synth-based music. But, yo...)
17. Shlohmo (Like a more elaborate, less-repetitive XXYYXX, plus glitch elements.)
18. Modest Mouse (Saw them at the Fox Theatre last week as well. Oh my God.)
19. New Year - Beach House
20. The Lull - Cat's Eyes
21. Over You - Cat's Eyes
22. Carry the Zero - Built to Spill (Modest Mouse before Modest Mouse)
23. Illest Alive - Clams Casino (Like I've mentioned before, I always appreciate a nice Bjork sample.)
24. Pineal Gland - Ab-Soul ("When I die, donate my organs to science, bitch")
25. Planned Attack - Quasimoto (Can't wait for the new album...)
26. I Hate Your Boyfriend - Murs (I do.)

Playlist #53

1. What Your Soul Sings - Massive Attack
2. Butterfly Caught - Massive Attack
3. Saturday Come Slow - Massive Attack Ft. Damon Albarn
4. And It Rained All Night - Thom Yorke (Just bought $100 tickets for an Atoms for Peace show...which is 2 days after my 21st in...October. Fuck it. I'm planning everything around that day.)
5. Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Boards of Canada
6. Happy Cycling - Boards of Canada
7. Julie and the Candy - Boards of Canada
8. 1969 - Boards of Canada
9. The Beach at Redpoint - Boards of Canada
10. Satellite Anthem Icarus - Boards of Canada
11. Peacock Tail - Boards of Canada
12. Slow This Bird Down - Boards of Canada
13. Left Side Drive - Boards of Canada
14. Skyliner - Boards of Canada
15. Sunshine Recorders
16. You. - Gold Panda
17. Same Dream China - Gold Panda
18. Lounge Forward - Wavves
19. Everything Is My Fault - Wavves
20. I Can't Dream - Wavves

Playlist #52

1. TIED2U - XXYYXX
2. Witching Hour - XXYYXX
3. Sly (Underdog Mix) - Massive Attack
4. Angel - Massive Attack
5. Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack
6. Exchange - Massive Attack
7. Black Milk - Massive Attack
8. Rush Minute - Massive Attack
9. 1009 - Bonobo
10. Heaven For The Sinner - Massive Attack Ft. Erykah Badu
11. Leave Me (Portishead Remix) - Natalie Imbruglia (As you can tell, it's been a predominantly trip-hop week for me.)
12. Mom - Flying Lotus (Thanks, 'Sheed.)
13. Gun-Shy - Grizzly Bear
14. Last Call - Kanye West
15. Whoa - Earl Sweatshirt Ft. Tyler the Creator (Earl's flow is pretty much unrivaled at this point...)

Playlist #51

1. Pyramids - Frank Ocean (More so the second half of this song. Experimental R&B at its finest.)
2. Amok (entire album) - Atoms for Peace (Sounds like a Thom Yorke solo album rather than the work of a supergroup, but awesome, nonetheless.)
3. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
4. Before My Time - J. Ralph Ft. Joshua Bell & Scarlett Johansson
5. Wildfire - SBTRKT Ft. Yukimi Nagano
6. Harmonix - Surfer Blood
7. 2 Words - Kanye West Ft. Mos Def & Freeway
8. About You - XXYYXX
9. Future Proof - Massive Attack
10. Small Time Shot Away - Massive Attack (Probably my favorite trip hop song.)
11. A Sweet Song About Love - Sleep Party People
12. Not Human At All - Sleep Party People (Forever one of my favorites.)
13. Far Away - Washed Out
14. Right Where It Belongs - Nine Inch Nails (Pretty much, I've been listening to my "Favorites" playlist lately and nothing much else.)
15. Edit The Sad Parts - Modest Mouse (" ")

Playlist #50

1. Eclipse/Blue - Nosaj Thing Ft. Kazu Makino [The Kazu Makino features continue (RE: "In Vertigo" - Beach Fossils) with this absolute gem of a song. Beautiful video too.]
2. Aquarium - Nosaj Thing ("Eclipse/Blue" really got me back into Nosaj Thing these past few weeks. Who could forget this track, made famous by Cudi years back.)
3. Glue - Nosaj Thing
4. Snap - Nosaj Thing
5. Fog - Nosaj Thing
6. Us - Nosaj Thing
7. Voices - Nosaj Thing
8. Givin' No Fucks - Trinidad James (Samples the above song and does not disappoint. The beat is simple as fuck: pretty much a loop of the first 3 seconds of "Voices" with a standard 808 beat behind it. But sometimes we find potency in simplicity and blah blah blah yeah.)
9. $outh$ide - Trinidad James Ft. Fortie Bowie (Hazy yet upbeat; a dirty south "Gas Drawls". Some old school southern rap shit. Some lazily sway your head while slouched down on a couch with a Cheeto hanging out of your mouth shit.)
10. Land of Lords - The Underachievers (Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I saw these dudes at the Low End Theory a month or two ago. Got around to downloading Indigoism which dropped a few weeks back. Not too bad. Good sampling of "Montara" on this song.)
11. Leopard Shepard - The Underachievers
12. Sclera - Kool A.D.
13. Electric Feel - MGMT (Heard some MGMT at a hipster coffee shop, went home, and...felt like listening to some MGMT.)
14. Congratulations - MGMT
15. Siberian Breaks - MGMT (I have a pretty short attention span, even when it comes to music. So being that this song is 12:10 long, I cut it up on Wavepad, and put the parts that I like on my iTunes. That is how I operate. Oh look, a shoe!)
16. Mathematics - Mos Def (Classic. This song is like my Cultural Studies class in rap form.)
17. Plucking Daisies - PackFM (In commemoration of Singles Awareness Day.)
18. Sorry For The Delay - Grizzly Bear (Pretty sure this one was on a playlist from a few weeks ago. Oh well, it's a good song.)
19. Pink Love - Blonde Redhead (Those Kazu Makino features inspired me to listen to Blonde Redhead, which I haven't done in a while. This song in particular has forever been my favorite.)
20. Capricornus - Austin Peralta (Some amazing, piano-driven jazz fo yo azz.)
21. The Underwater Mountain Odyssey - Austin Peralta
22. Ode to Love - Austin Peralta (R.I.P. Austin Peralta, age 22)
23. Camel (Nosaj Thing Remix) - Flying Lotus

Playlist #49

1. Shadow - Wild Nothing
2. Midnight Song - Wild Nothing
3. Only Heather - Wild Nothing
4. Disappear Always - Wild Nothing
5. The Blue Dress - Wild Nothing
6. BEACH FOSSILS [Pretty much everything they've done so far (Beach Fossils, What a Pleasure EP, Clash the Truth). I found out about them through DIIV's (thanks, Kevin for recommending these guys) Wikipedia page, and I'm absolutely glad that I did. They're not out-of-this-world amazing or anything of the sort, but I haven't been able to stop listening to them for the past few days. They have a fairly consistent sound; they're somewhat like a dream pop version of The Drums. They also remind me of post-punk/New Wave bands like The Wake (in fact, they've released a cover of "Plastic Flowers") and Orange Juice as well. Standout tracks include: "Calyer", "Generational Synthetic", and "In Vertigo" (which features Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead; one of my absolute favorite vocalists of any genre, all mesmerizin' and shit). Overall, mellow and catchy, for the lack of better terms.
7. The SinKing - Crystal Stilts
8. Verdant Gaze - Crystal Stilts
9. Departure - Crystal Stilts (Once again, shout out to Kevin for showing me this song. After hearing it, I was hoping for the rest of the album to be an Unknown Pleasures Jr. But to my dismay, it wasn't quite that. Still worth a listen though. It's more post-punk as opposed to post-punk revival, which you wouldn't expect in this decade, so that's refreshing.)
10. Oshin - DIIV (entire album) (Pretty similar to Beach Fossils, which makes sense considering that the dude who started DIIV is also a Beach Fossils guitarist. A little more dream pop than Beach fossils, however.)
11. Seventeen - Youth Lagoon [Found out about Youth Lagoon after watching the video for Inuition's "Imagining" and learning where the song's sample came from (great, heartfelt song by the way). Youth Lagoon's music is minimalist, hypnotic, and has an ethereal quality to it. In other words, his music visualized is some hipster vagabond dude exploring the forest, washing his face in the river, and pondering about life and metaphysics and shit.)
12. Cannons - Youth Lagoon
13. only tomorrow - My Bloody Valentine [Loveless is one of my favorite albums and I was excited when they dropped this album out of the blue (which is funny, because the album cover is blue...lol?), 22 years after Loveless. Being that the many comedians and Twitter personalities that I follow are like 30's+, my feed went crazy when it dropped because these people have actually waited for a very long time, so I can't even imagine their excitement. Anyway, I was very happy to hear that they've pretty much kept absolutely true to their sound. Shoegazey as fuck since '88.)
14. who sees you - My Bloody Valentine
15. if i am - My Bloody Valentine
16. Fastlane - The Internet
17. Resurrection (DJ Honda Remix) - Common
18. Traveling Man - Mos Def & DJ Honda