Listens Last Week (July 10, 2022)
Here goes my second “listens last week” post. Strange exercise, but whatever.
I think next week is going to be a Toro y Moi kind of week, but not yet. Currently listening to the sounds of the birds and the creek by my backyard, and somebody’s prop plane looping around above the city macking a racket this morning.
(This is a log of my music listens in the past week, by albums and playlists, not including completely random shuffles.)
Date | Album or Playlist | Artist or Curator
Sun.2022.07.03 | LOVE QUANTUM | Theo Crocker
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, chores, whatever
Notes: First listen
Sun.2022.07.03 | DRILL MUSIC IN ZION | Lupe Fiasco
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: chores, whatever
Notes: First listen
Sun.2022.07.03 | Barbarism | Katie Alice Greer
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: chores, whatever
Notes: second listen - more conflicted than first listen - at least one more listen is in order
Mon.2022.07.04 | Some Cities | Doves
Format/Source: CD rip to my phone via Apple Music
Location/Context: chores, whatever
Notes: songs were in my head while mowing lawn (engine too loud for my earphones), or otherwise doing yard work (I make myself listen to the birds, the wind in the trees, the creek, and random neighborhood noises rather than listen to music) - so later, inside, on it went.
Mon-Wed.2022.07.04-06 | Barbarism | Katie Alice Greer
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, then work
Notes: I wanted there to be something profound about listening to Flag Wave Pts. 1 and 2 on the actual 4th of July, but my driving trip was over less than halfway through and I never got back to listening to music again until the 6th of July. Oh well. This album has actually never sounded more right than it did while blaring out of my phone speaker.
Wed.2022.07.06 | Happier Than Ever | Billie Eilish
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: direct from iPhone speaker on my desk at work
Notes: a song came up on shuffle and it was great and I realized I never gave much attention to this album when it came out, so I gave it another listen right then. I still don’t find it as exciting as her first album, but extremely solid with some great songs.
Wed-Thur.2022.07.06-07 | Pink Dolphins | Anteloper
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving
Thur.2022.07.07 | It’s Giving SELF LOVE! | Dear Silas
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: reading with earphones
Fri.2022.07.08 | Movement (Definitive) [2019 Remaster] | New Order
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Notes: This edition has a bunch of their early demos on the second “disc” (not sure a CD version actually even exists.) I want to buy physical copies of the “Collector’s Editions” of their first four albums, because they have second discs with all of the original singles and b-sides from the time period and New Order singles are absolutely key tracks - in the meantime I won’t lie I got three of them from the library and ripped them.
Fri.2022.07.08 | Any Shape You Take | Indigo De Souza
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Fri-Sat.2022.07.08-09 | [Playlist] Superbloom | Apple Music Pop
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working, driving, reading
Notes: Added a bunch of albums to my library for future listening from this playlist this time. I wonder if Spotify still has that Pollen playlist I used to like, and what it would be like now if it even exists…