some albums i like, my favourite tracks on the album, things they make me feel/remind me of
in no particular order, forever a wip
favourites or particularly memorable shows are starred
2024
hozier
boa
lana del rey
2023
lana del rey ★
father john misty
hozier ★
chase atlantic
central cee
the killers ★
bakar
ethel cain ★
steve lacy
declan mckenna
billie eilish ★
2022
the 1975
halsey ★
willow
ashnikko ★
arrdee
lovejoy ★
artists i'd like to see live one day
the cure
muse
lorde (would be incredible but i don't like her newer work)
boygenius
grimes (has to be a rave or something though)
sufjan stevens (unlikely. he hasn't toured in years. which is fair enough.)
1. fourth of july
2. death with dignity
3. should have known better
4. the only thing
feeling overly aware of death, reading through genius annotations, feelings of transcendence and existential questioning, minimalistically raw and beautiful instrumentals and vocals
this dreamlike performance of carrie & lowell is really beautiful: https://youtu.be/9FX34TjJe-c?si=zClZQbQpij2Pv7YZ
1. never is a promise
2. sleep to dream
3. criminal
4. sullen girl
the most powerful soulful vocals, learning every lyric akin to learning the bible, perfectly esoteric mix of jazz rock and a touch of pop, sweet sweet unapologetic misandry
1. Music When The Lights Go Out
2. Can't Stand Me Now
3. What Katie Did
4. Arbeit Macht Frei
walking down the street at 2x speed overtaking every single person, would be amazing live, would also be amazing at a houseparty, kind of radiates the quintessential getting drunk in a field british experience talking to new people and not caring about anything else but the moment you're living in
1. Everything Means Nothing To Me
2. Easy Way Out
3. Somebody That I Used To Know
4. Son Of Sam
first introduced me to elliott smith so perhaps a touch of nostalgia, used to be able to study to it but not anymore, bittersweet love and hopelessness, gentle whispery vocals that make every lyric feel like a personal confession
1. Love Songs On The Radio
2. Mercy
3. Where Is The Love
4. Tomorrow's Taken
being sad but a warm lonely type of sad, studying in that aforementioned sadness, no longer being sad and just feeling warm and at home, autumn
1. Just
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4. Black Star
"YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF", walking down the street at 2x speed overtaking every single person but in self hatred at the same time, getting ready to go out, incredible guitar work to be intricately appreciated
1. Casimir Pulaski Day
2. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
3. John Wayne Gacy Jr.
4. Chicago
the same minimalistically raw and beautiful instrumentals and vocals of carrie & lowell but perhaps a bit lighter and happier, young love, a gentle sense of hopefulness
1. the queen is dead
2. bigmouth strikes again
3. frankly, mr shankly
4. there is a light that never goes out
having the realest title ever, having the best dry & witty lyrics, sprightliness, having some utterly miserable songs but i can't imagine being miserable listening to them, vivid memories of singing "there is a light that never goes out" with my friends in the streets "if a double decker bus crashes into us"
1. Paradise
2. Kiss of Life
3. Smooth Operator
4. The Sweetest Taboo
silky smooth vocals, floating light jazz tones, small intimate house parties
1. Dance Me to the End of Love
2. The Law
3. Hallelujah
4. Hunter's Lullaby
feeling your soul, feeling comforted & completely at rest, long slow relationships
1. take me to church
2. angel of small death and the codeine scene
3. like real people do
4. cherry wine
godliness, meaningful and devastatingly gorgeous lyricism, feeling like your soul is physically open and in another world
saw live summer 2023
saw with my best friend and i think it was one of the most incredible and beautiful nights of my life
1. Starman
2. Moonage Daydream
3. Five Years
4. Suffragette City
david bowie, i love david bowie, feeling like a real person, smiling grinning being happy and carefree with friends singing along to the music, being culturally revolutionary as i think his work will forever be unparalleled
1. ocean blvd
2. A&W
3. Candy Necklace
4. Let the Light In
hauntingly beautiful muted piano, long quiet walks through the streets, deep breaths, quintessential lana del rey lyrics
saw live summer 2023, incredible experience
1. all i need
2. faust arp
3. 15 step
4. weird fishes/arpeggi
studying, finishing assignments the night before they're due, but also getting ready to go on a night out with friends, beautiful underapperciated almost glorious instrumentals, i think this is such a versatile album hence why it was my most listened in 2023 and i think it encapsulates my 2023 pretty well as a year
1. Sextape
2. Beauty School
3. 967-Evil
4. Risk
first introduced me to ... metal? deftones-esque rock? wikipedia says shoegaze but ??? i don't think so, getting ready for a party, feelings of power
1. Liquid Smooth
2. Pearl Diver
3. Brand New City
4. Bag Of Bones
i remember listening to liquid smooth for the first time and being in utter awe, simply sitting and appreciating in tortured anguish (in a beautiful way), gorgeous raw vocals, heartbreakingly beautiful, probably the most impressive debut album ever
1. communist love song
2. the priest
3. laundrydaydreams
4. i am sitting in a room
"i will be your berlin wall and i will never fall", gentle and simple hopelessness, things coming to an end, yearning
1. Some Things Cosmic
2. If it's Alive, it Will
3. Drunk and with Dreams
4. Creator, Destroyer
grief but also freedom, a far-away ghosty reverb like you're hearing it from an old record player from another room in a crumbling victorian house, writing essays
1. Sour Times
2. Glory Box
3. Mysterons
4. Roads
mesmerising soundscapes, feeling beautiful and mysterious on a foggy dark night, clean breathy vocals with a slight sense of fragility, intricate attention to detail
1. 4AM
2. We Appreciate Power
3. Violence
4. New Gods
being camp, telling yourself you're a robot, being like the modern day happier higher energy version of cocteau twins, ethereal vocals
1. Kill V Maim
2. Artangels
3. Venus Fly
4. Flesh Without Blood
being camp, a slight touch of delusion and recklessness, walking through the streets feeling like a teenage girl without a care in the world, i feel like this album would look like a kaleidoscope
1. No Surprises
2. Paranoid Android
3. Karma Police
4. Subterranean Homesick Alien
what can i say, it's literally radiohead ok computer it's perfect and a masterpiece
1. Jupiter
2. Curl up & Die
3. When You Wash Your Hair
4. Krystal
rotting in your room, "curl up and die" in a warm bed, desolation, gentle homely comfortable instrumentation, a sense of conclusion or perhaps indicating a new chapter
1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Cherry-coloured Funk
3. Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
4. Pitch the Baby
a cacophony of shimmery instrumental atmosphere, metamorphosis, soundtrack to downing but drowning in a flowery koi fish pond perhaps painted by van gogh but a little bit more psychedelic, soft and overwhelming at the same time
1. Ultraviolence
2. Pretty When You Cry
3. Old Money
4. Cruel World
theatrical melancholy, "I'm churning out novels like Beat poetry on amphetamines", new york city (i've never been to new york city)
1. Bug Like an Angel
2. My Love Mine All Mine
3. The Deal
4. When Memories Snow
beautifully conveying the idea that we are on this planet to love, warmth and intimacy, open but comfortable vunerability, i think this is my favourite mitski album; i love every song & they each add something slightly different creating a perfect mix w no skips
1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart
revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day
1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette
slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress