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PINK MOON ~ Nick drake

cool fucking surrealist album cover, and overall an incredible album for anyone who likes folk-y music

@jamesandthegiantpeach04

Jul 29, 2024

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nada surf, "let go"

My friend Matthew Caws went about his music career completely backward. His band, Nada Surf, had an MTV hit very early in their career, "Popular," and were then dropped (let go, get it?) by the major label that signed them and proceeded to make the best album of their careers on an indie label, without pressure or deadline. As he told me once: "It's as if we got to start over again, a new band." Matthew was living a musical life; working in a Brooklyn record store called Earwax, going to shows, writing music. In a way, "Let Go" is a record that asks "what if you had a second chance to do it all over again, the way YOU wanted to do it all along?" And then diving from head to toe into that opportunity. I've had "Let Go" kicking around in one format or another for more than twenty years and always find something new to love about it; isn't that the very definition of "Favoritte album?" "Blizzard of '77:" A mellow little piece of recoverred (drug) memory with a decidedly Elliott Smith vibe to it. Produced by then-Death Cab for Cutie member Chris Walla for $100, which the band paid to him in $1 and $5 bills from their merch sales at shows. "Treading Water:" Linked here, the sound of what adulting in Manhattan looked like then (and still does). "Always rushing, always late." "Neither Heaven Nor Space:" just high. "And if you sit long enough, you can hear ghost trains/As if the city speed is just in our brains/And coke's as close as we get to sugar cane." "Blonde on Blonde:" Living that below-14th Street life, soundtracked by Dylan. "Paper Boats:" a floaty, dreamy ode to depression. "Been thinking and drinking, all over the town/Must be gearing up for some kind of meltdown." Years later, Matthew and I met up while they were recording their album "Lucky" at a live-in studio in Seattle called Robert Lang (it's the same place where Dave Grohl recorded the first Foo Fighters album). He had just discovered he was a dad and was in the middle of a custody fight over the child -- the mother hadn't told him it was his, there were lots of complications -- and we were comparing notes on fatherhood and just generally in the same headspace about having plenty of problems but being fortunate to have them. He's one of my favorite humans and "Let Go" is his masterpiece.

@coreydubrowa

Oct 2, 2024

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THE BAND - MUSIC FROM BIG PINK

imbued with a kind of warmth you can only get in a 60’s album. exists in its own little world entirely. ok you’ve got ‘the weight’ right slap bang in the middle of the album and that’s the big pull but we can’t forget the rest!!! ‘lonesome suzie’, ’we can talk’, ‘i shall be released(!!!!)’ like come on now!!!

@joshuavidual

3d ago

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THIS ARTIST THATS JUST IN MORSE CODE

i don’t know what to call him but these songs have a beautiful delicate energy to them. it kind of reminds me of slower and sadder radiohead songs. they fit perfectly into driving home from an event when you’re feeling wistful or soft melancholy

@kevmack

Apr 14, 2025

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THE CRUX - DJO

djo freaking killed it on his new album. it’s fresh but very inspired by the beatles, fleetwood mac, talking heads since it came out on friday i’ve listened to it atleast twice a day

@kevmack

Apr 9, 2025

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@EATENBYFLOWERS JEREMY PAIGE

probably the best street photographer going right now in hollywood. His ability to be at the right place at the right time and capture a unique and memorable scene is really impressive. Most would be lucky to get even 1 one of these shots

@kevmack

Apr 9, 2025