Here are Spotify and Apple Music links to the playlist.
Here are a few highlights. I’ll add more soon.
‘People, I’ve Been Sad’ by Christine & the Queens | Songs like this make me question the point of music criticism—what’s the use in writing about something so perfect? And if a piece of art isn’t this transcendent, why give it the time of day? I don’t have an adequate answer, but I think ‘People’ is perfectly composed and performed, and I feel obligated to tell the world.
‘Gagarin’ by Moses Sumney | This song wonderfully highlights Sumney’s natural ear for melody and obsessive attention to detail and musical flourish.
‘Pain Everyday’ by clipping. | Yet again, Daveed Digs and company gleefully jettison the standards of structure and genre boundary to create something ingeniously scattered and sinister.
‘Elliptical Days’ by Loma | Even when it’s not playing, I often find my mind wandering into the cyclical, twilight haze of this song’s layers of lush vocals and distant instrumentation.