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My Music Listening Log

I track my music listening pretty exhaustively using last.fm and have about six full years of history there. This is a place for me to note and add context to obsessions of the moment, particular listening projects, and curate my favorite albums of the year.

My Favorites of 2024

Final Summer - CoverTHE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY - CoverCOWBOY CARTER - CoverOnly God Was Above Us - CoverQWERTY II - CoverSomething in the Room She Moves - CoverPHASOR - Cover

All Noted Listens of 2024

Hole Erth - CoverI LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - CoverGIZMO - CoverMAHAL - CoverFrame & Canvas - CoverFinal Summer - CoverDiary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape - CoverTHE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY - CoverCOWBOY CARTER - CoverOnly God Was Above Us - CoverQWERTY II - CoverSomething in the Room She Moves - CoverBraid 1998 Van Mixtape - CoverNothing Feels Good - CoverEverybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles - CoverAnak Ko - CoverOK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 - CoverFull Discography - CoverPHASOR - CoverANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER) - CoverThe Slow Rush - Cover

Toro y Moi: Hole Erth

Hole Erth - Cover

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Genre/Description: emo pop cloud rap?

Date Listened: 2024-09-07 15:43:44 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

Toro y Moi’s music is just endlessly listenable to me, almost no matter what does, though it often takes me a minute to come around to whatever his latest flavor is. This album is no exception.

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Jpegmafia: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - Cover

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Genre/Description: hip hop

Date Listened: 2024-09-07 15:23:25 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving along
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

I hear you went down down down down down down down down I hear you went down

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Tanukichan: GIZMO

GIZMO - Cover

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Genre/Description: fuzz

Date Listened: 2024-08-13 19:04:09 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving and evening sunset thunderstorm
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

I had to scroll back through my added albums to last year to find this again because I couldn’t remember this artist or album name. I only remembered the crunchy fuzzy 90s-altrock/shoegazish vibe and that Toro y Moi produced it and that it came out last year and that it had a dog and barfy slimy green and magenta letters on the cover.

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Toro y Moi: MAHAL

MAHAL - Cover

A 2022 Favorite

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Genre/Description: psychedelic funk/soul

Date Listened: 2024-08-12 19:45:40 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving to work and such
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

My father-in-law is in the Philippines on a work trip and there were pictures shared and discussion of the awesomeness of jeepneys and tricycles in the family chat, so that of course over anything else gave me a flimsy excuse to think of this album and listen to it again, as it doesn’t take very much to make me think of this album and want to listen to it again. And I surprisingly couldn’t resist also randomly sharing1 in the family chat a modicum of my enthusiasm for the album and Chaz' associated jeepney restoration project.

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Braid: Frame & Canvas

Frame & Canvas - Cover

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Genre/Description: midwest emo

Date Listened: 2024-06-02 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: in my head when I wake up in the morning, driving around, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.

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Cloud Nothings: Final Summer

Final Summer - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: emoish indie rock

Date Listened: 2024-04-26 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or working, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

This really syncs with my recent 90s midwest emo indie rock deep dive. In fact, I listened to this a couple of times, then listened to the first two Sunny Day Real Estate albums, started listening to Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, but wanted to come back to this again over all of that. [2024-04-27]

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Sunny Day Real Estate / Foo Fighters: Diary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape

Diary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape - Cover

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Genre/Description: emo 90s altrock Seattle

Date Listened: 2024-04-24 00:00:00 -0600 MDT
Context/Location: driving, doing dishes, etc.
Format/Platform: phone / Apple Music
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Taylor Swift: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: confessional/dramatic singer-songwriter

Date Listened: 2024-04-21 16:42:49 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving mostly, or puttering around the house
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.

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Beyoncé: COWBOY CARTER

COWBOY CARTER - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: genres are a funny little concept aren't they

Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:27:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.

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Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us

Only God Was Above Us - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: the most Vampire Weekendish ever

Date Listened: 2024-04-05 20:26:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.

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Saya Gray: QWERTY II

QWERTY II - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: classic rock?

Date Listened: 2024-03-28 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

This her progrockiest yet?

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Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves

Something in the Room She Moves - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: lots of flute fretless bass synths and cool overdubbed singing - 'art pop'

Date Listened: 2024-03-25 11:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

I’ve been a fan of Julia Holter for a long time1. She occasionally creates moments that irritate me, but I kind of love her all the more for them.

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Braid / Polyvinyl Records: Braid 1998 Van Mixtape

Braid 1998 Van Mixtape - Cover

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Genre/Description: midwest emo 1990s alternative indie

Date Listened: 2024-03-16 10:09:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: working on my conference presentation, driving around, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

After listening to Nothing Feels Good a couple of times, I was ready to do a deep dive back into midwest emo. Frame and Canvas is my other favorite album from this era, but I’d seen this playlist a while ago and thought I should branch out. It’s pretty great, and has some nice surprises

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The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good

Nothing Feels Good - Cover

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Genre/Description: I don't know Billy Ocean and I don't know the ocean floor

Date Listened: 2024-03-15 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have that CD somewhere. Need to get my CDs out.

For some reason my annual springtime Jay Som listen made me think of this album and 90s midwest emo in general, and I’m so glad I dug it out and listened to it. Somehow in the late 90s a track from this album got airplay on X-96 one evening in between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Loser” or whatever they were usually playing and still I think play 25 years later, and I happened to hear it. It stuck with me; I remembered the band name and that I liked it through two years of Mormon mission, but didn’t find or hear the album until college, when I was in the Graywhale by the University of Utah and found a section I’d never paid attention to with the strange-to-me label of “indie”, and there in that section was this album, with it’s ironic retro colorfulness and white CD case backing. This album was my conscious entry point to the world of “indie rock”, emo, Pitchfork, etc.

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Jay Som: Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles

Everybody Works / Turn Into / Anak Ko / various singles - Cover

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Genre/Description: dream pop indie rock bedroom recordings but then studio

Date Listened: 2024-03-13 11:11:11 -0600 -0600
Context/Location: driving, working, etc.
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music, but I have all three of her full lengths on vinyl

Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.

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Jay Som: Anak Ko

Anak Ko - Cover

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Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: limited edition red/orange vinyl LP on home stereo record player
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Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017

OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 - Cover

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Genre/Description: I am a target market

Date Listened: 2024-03-10 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: dishes, cooking, cleaning
Format/Platform: 3 x vinyl LPs on home stereo record player
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Helado Negro: Full Discography

Full Discography - Cover

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Genre/Description:

Date Listened: 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0700 MST
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Helado Negro: PHASOR

PHASOR - Cover

A 2024 Favorite

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Genre/Description: latin indie folk electronic

Date Listened: 2024-02-29 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.

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Saya Gray: ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER)

ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE) / QWERTY / 19 Masters / SHALLOW (PPL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER) - Cover

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Genre/Description: hyperpop folk prog alt-r&b rock

Date Listened: 2024-02-15 00:00:00 -0700 MST
Context/Location: driving, working, everywhere, everything
Format/Platform: Phone / Apple Music

So obsessed with her music, she’s a mad genius. I can listen again and again. I wake up with fragments of these songs in my head many mornings.

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