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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.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Frame & Canvas

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.

Toro y Moi - The Loop (Official Video)

Toro y Moi - Postman (Official Video)

Want a Ride in Toro y Moi’s Jeepney? | KQED

Toro y Moi - Goes By So Fast: a MAHAL Film [Behind the Scenes]

If I somehow convert even just one of my nieces, nephews, or in-laws into a Tory y Moi fan, my joy will be tenfold. Even if I just plant the seed…

Standalone post link: Listening Log: MAHAL

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.

[Listening progression: MAHAL –> Hole Erth preview tracks –> GIZMO (this album.)] When I first read a blurb and saw the art for Toro y Moi’s forthcoming album Hole Erth I imagined that it was going be something like this album. Turns out the tracks that have been released from Hole Erth so far aren’t much like this album at all, but that’s okay.

Mr. Rain

The final track “Mr. Rain” really matches the weather and mood this evening, dramatic thunderstorms overhead mixed with golden hour sunset lighting under the clouds to the west.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: GIZMO

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

I was pretty obsessed with All My Heroes Are Cornballs a few years ago. I don’t know why I haven’t paid much attention to the stuff he’s done since then, but now I’m definitely paying attention.

I feel an exhaustive JPEGMAFIA / Devon Hendryx discography listening project is coming soon…

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(went searching for the source of the sample and youtube caught me)

I hear you went down

jpegmafia’s 100th problem - “don’t rely on other men” song analysis

How JPEGMAFIA Breaks EVERY Beatmaking Rule

I remember watching some random youtube where he hung out with James Blake and just shared some of his productions at the time (AMHAC era)

Standalone post link: Listening Log: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

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.

I love how he seems so chill but takes on ambitious challenges and manages things that it seems like shouldn’t work for him: successfully trying on various genres, the maturing of his vocals, and in this album’s case a fair amount of rapping and some successful pop moves, among other things.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Hole Erth

At first, it made me miss Craft Spells. (Whatever happened to Craft Spells btw?) Then I wanted to be listening to BLACKSTARKIDS, or the new Toro album, or I’m not sure what else.

But by the halfway point I had finally accepted this for what it was and not what I expected or wanted it to be, and I realized it was pretty nice.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: EKKSTACY

Very nice. One from last year I never spent much time with, but a track came up on shuffle and I immediately wanted to hear the whole album.

Vibe is almost like getting another Radiohead album (think A Moon Shaped Pool) but without Thom’s intensity and occasional caterwaul. Not that there’s anything wrong wIth Thom, its just, to get caught in one of these beautiful instrumentals, almost expecting that voice to jump in at any moment, followed by the absence of it, and Rani’s voice instead, is a kind of relief and a blessing, you know? Like the plans you were anxious about were just cancelled, and now you can just read a book or play a video game or listen to this music or whatever and not have to deal with going out.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Ghosts

This wasn’t quite what I was hoping for after the first track I heard, but it is nice.

I need to stop this “hoping” and “expectations” nonsense and just accept what is offered for what it is. If something doesn’t meet my imagined hopes and expectations, maybe what that means is that I should get off my butt and create the thing I’m imagining…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Rose Main Reading Room

For murky reasons I don’t understand, “Last Nite” has been in my head for days and nights now. The other morning, with the song in my head yet again, before walking out the door I scanned my shelves and pulled this actual decades-old-CD in its jewel case and took it to my car and slid it into my car’s actual CD player, and I’ve been listening to it on loop whenever I am driving ever since.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Is This It

Listened to this twice and I zoned out for the last few tracks both times. I don’t think I’m going to be replaying this as obsessively as I did PAINLESS.¹ But maybe, if for no other reason than to figure out what I actually think about this album or if I can come to like it as much as her old stuff. Or if I add it to a playlist of her whole discography and start shuffling…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: My Method Actor