Two Broody Albums From IDLES and St. Vincent | SOTW 05/31/2024
This Week: Exploring the similarities between “Big Time Nothing” and “POP POP POP,” plus weirdness from Dominique Guiot’s “La Danse Des Méduses” and Brian Eno’s “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” and Chelsea Wolfe’s devastating “Flatlands.”
AI and the Most Unwanted Song | SOTW 05/17/2024
Also this week: Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah’s “Lake Shore Drive,” Peter Gabriel covering Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a Cage,” Cocteau Twins’ famous “Carolyn’s Fingers,” and Blur’s underrated “Ambulance.”
The Tweakin Poets Department | SOTW 04/26/2024 (coming to you 05/03/2024)
Because the best poets aren’t too tortured to hit that yoinky sploinky in sepia.
Songs of the Week 03/29/2024
Since y’all had to slog through some LEQ-type shit last time, this week, I’ve cooked up something shorter for your perusal. See? I even simplified to “y’all.” That’s some contractional efficiency. G’bless.
Songs of the Week 03/15/2024
New Peter Gabriel! New St. Vincent! New IDLES! New Chelsea Wolfe! New TV on the Radio…. has not released since 2015!
Songs of the Week 02/02/2024
Another batch of songs from November because I’m so blocked up from that hiatus.
Songs of the WEEK ANNUAL REVIEW 2023
I didn’t see light for days, couldn’t feel the first Christmas snowflakes land on my tongue, but it was all worth it—all worth bringing you this year’s annual review on January 10th, 2024. You’re welcome, Idaho.
Songs of the week 09/15/2023 (coming to you From 09/22/2023)
DUDE, DID YOU HEAR ME? PLAYTHEFUCKINGBEAT!
Songs of the Week 04/14/2023 (Coming to You From 04/21/2023)
The Mrs. Featherbottom hole goes deep.
Selling Songs in One Sentence! | Songs of the Week 03/17/2023
Because I'm too cheap to skip a week without Wordpress stats dopamine.
Songs of the Week 03/03/2023
in my lowercase indie girl era, bopping to Fiona Apple Feist boygenius at the King Soopers
Songs of the Week 01/20/2023
Only the spiciest posts for my most loyalest parasocial Toddlings.
Songs of the Week Annual Review 2022 (Because Someone Needs To Keep Spotify Honest)
I figured now was as good an opportunity as any to enter my own dark horse into the streaming music recap race—a real homegrown replay/wrapped situation. So, as 2022 comes to a close (four days into 2023), let's take a look back at the music that defined my year, and that probably didn't define yours, but here you are, reading about it. Don't think about it too much.
Songs of the Week 12/30/2022
Buckle up, kids, I'm airing out all of my flammable takes while we're still in holiday limbo so I can start this new year pure and angelic. The puffy, white, cartoon gloves are off, and honestly, they're not going back on, because that character design harkens back to blackface performances. Did you know that? Yea. I just shotgun sprayed your childhood, and I'm not even sorry for it. That's right, yea, and this is just the beginning. Ten-thirty, no mercy.