Spring 2024

This whole album is filled with the driven excitement of youth that refuses to stop. You don't fully understand yourself or others but the only way you'll find answers is to dive in and mix it up. Bodies heal and so will your emotions. Recommended Track: My Delirium

Back in 2001, MTV only played decent music videos between midnight and 4 am and it was in that late night haze that I discovered this album. While it's far from a perfect album, there are a significant number of tracks that hit. And when they do hit, they hit hard and prove that New Order "still got it." Recommended Track: Crystal

Discovering Bent had released a new album in 2020 was like finding a favorite snack that I didn't think anyone was making anymore. I'm just as in love with it as I am with their previous albums. Their lush production connects with something deep inside my brain and makes me feel like I'm being welcomed into a fantastical world that I never want to leave. I think I'll just hit repeat. Recommended Track: When You Come By

For at least a year of middle school, my family would put this album on during dinner and everyone would end up singing along with it. I've listened to this whole album so many times that I no longer have an impartial view of it. Recommended Track: Eden

I first encountered this band at the Detroit Jazz festival where they literally stopped me in my tracks. Since then, I've had the pleasure of seeing them live many more times and I can't get enough of their Jazz Manouche style. I can personally say this live album is as close as it gets to the real thing. Recommended Track: What is This Thing Called Love?

This album is a hot drink after coming in from the cold. It would be easy to mistake it for just another dreamy shoegaze album on your first listen but there is a lot more happening musically in each song. This is an album that begs you to live with it long enough to hear all of its secrets. Recommended Track: Dream About Me

This is an energetically dreamy album. GIFT blends synths of the 80's with the vocals of 90's shoegaze over 2000's rhythms. It makes for music that feels out of time in the best way. Recommended Track: Gumball Garden

Adventerous and difficult to pin down by genre, Halo Maud feels like somebody who grew up listening to some of my favorite artists. The French sensibility she brings to familiar sounds and structures is refreshing and something I want more of. Recommended Track: Last Day Song

The same year of this album's release, I was released from high school and we spent many happy hours driving in my car together. If you fell in love with Tanya Donelly from her days with the band Belly like I did, this album has more of those wonderful sounds in store for you. Recommended Track: Landspeed Song

A surprising new find from my wife. It would be easy to blow it off as playful and short but the unapologetically fun and feminine-forward emotions Juliet Ivy has packed into those five tracks makes me want to hear more. Recommended Track: boytoy

I had all but given up on The Chemical Brothers after my disappointment with Born In The Echoes but this album finally feels like one of my favorite bands found their voices again. I especially love how the brothers managed to find new sounds without resorting to a collaboration album. It is a swirling escape that I want to ride until its crescendo ending. Recommended Track: The Darkness That You Fear