2024 Listens

This is a good recording!

How can a day get better than a new Michael Kiwanuka day?

While I'm admittedly a Pink Floyd fanboy, I couldn't tell you if I had listened to a David Gilmour album all through up until this year. I find this one to be pretty darn great, though, and have been listening to it nearly daily.

Found this bop on Album Whale today. Excellent!

Have I ever sat down and listened to this before? No, not really. Am I a terrible person? Yes.

That's a fun ol' album!

Been on my work-listening list for a while, which means random shuffle occasionally. First time listening to the album straight through and it's lovely.

A smooth groove.

That was indeed a flight! Groovy.

Ran into The Rainbow Goblins on some forum post about "albums with a killer soundstage." The music is pretty good. The interludes are pretty weird. (Listen on YouTube. The other links are just to a single track.)

Sturgill returning to form!

Another one via Album Whale–this time more chill.

Found this via Album Whale and it's quite a mood-lifter!

Epic soundtrack suites from the epic sountracker himself, tracking pretty close to the setlist of his current tour.

Reminds me so much of Natalie Prass.

I've listened before and it didn't click. Patrick made me listen again and here we are!

It good! Saw her open for Olivia Rodrigo and it sort of seemed inevitable.

Years ago I introduced my kids to K-Pop with Red Velvet ("봐 Look"). I had no idea how wild they'd go with it! I don't listen to much, but this new EP seems to be pretty good pop music.

Pretty good pop music.

I'm a big fan of Hiatus Kaiyote. Totally surprised that they released a new album. Respect the experiments, but I'm not groovin' to this one as of yet.

They still haven’t captured their live or viral “acoustic” sets on a record, but this studio production is a marked improvement over their prior record. “23” and “Watcha Want”…😍.

My daughters are giant K-Pop fans, so I vowed to find some good K-Rock. This is very good K-Rock!

Just turned this on. I'm sure it'll be good, yeah?

A good little jam I found via Martin Griffiths.

For as much as I loved Obviously, I really don't groove with this one. There's something about the production that just doesn't work for me. I suspect this band would be a great fun live, but some bands just have trouble translating that to a studio recording.

I like. The whole family is going to a concert in July. This album should fit in nicely with the set.

Decemberists, but with Squirrel Nut Zippers horns at times. Every song is "normal" length…and then we get to the 70's prog rock closer.

Pretty good! If I'm being honest, I'm not fully-grabbed by it yet. This fantastic interview led me here.

This is all over thematically. I might like that?

This album feels like it has always been there. I had to double check that the songs weren’t all covers of tunes that I just hadn’t heard before.

Basically listening to this on repeat.

This was not what I was expecting!

Getting ready to attend his concert with the family at the end of June. Honey.

Succinct.

As always, Eilish's albums sound great. Nothing has grabbed me so far. Well, except for "LUNCH". 😆

Surprisingly surprised by enjoying this one. Morning View is one of my favorites from the time, and there are some nice differences here.

Purty.

It's rock. Rock and roll!

I mean also, like the next album…yeah!

On repeat today. Some of these songs hit very effectively. (Looking at you, "Nothing Is Perfect.")

This is a very nice rendition.

This has kind of been on repeat as I try to figure out search ads for another product we're working on. Sad that this great music will be tied to search ads in my head! (h/t Adam Wood)

Listened once and put in my work concentration playlist for the year.

Jarosz is so good. Favorite is "Columbus & 89th". When the soft bass drum kicks in near the end. 🧑‍🍳😘 That song is the reason to own good headphones.