kinda feel like four tet is the father of chill lo fi hip hop to study to.

man I love these guys. no one would ever call CCR "folk music", but honestly? culturally? Bad Moon Rising is sitting around the campfire type music.

my wife and I were discussing "what is rock and roll exactly?" so we had to listen to this for research. can confirm, this is rock and roll. Sister Rosetta Tharpe may have inventing shredding, but Chuck Berry leveled it up

saw something on the internet years and years ago about every Modest Mouse represents some sort of substance abuse, and I think this is the alcoholic album. My personal favorite is The Moon and Antartica (the stoner album) but I know objectively that this is the best one. I'm just a stoner at heart no matter how I drink.

just beautiful. file this under "hypnotizing jazz" (which is jazz at its best imho)

jazz hip hop + "yo mama has a peg leg with a kick stand" = gold

I had a "sleepy white girl needs aggressive hip hop to motivate her to get off the couch and cook" moment yesterday. love listening to Killer Mike and El-P (and I love the track with Zack de la Rocha) while I'm making a little yogurt sauce

more "stomp your feet" type jazz and less "sit down and contemplate" type jazz, good stuff

so cool, chill and boppy and beautiful, soundtrack2mylife type stuff

fun, simple. I've said this before but something I love about experiencing certain types of art, and in the music world it usually comes with punk, is that inspiration I get where I feel like creating is accessible. it makes me feel like "I can do that!" and that's not a knock, it's part of the whole punk ethos.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Prince is one of the most underappreciated icons of the 80's in terms of his legacy in the eyes of people who weren't even alive in his prime. I know, I was at Coachella in 2008, the millennial teens in the crowd had no idea what was about to hit them and by the end of the night he was like "THIS IS PRINCE'S HOUSE NOW!" and he was right

thrashing let's fucking go type shit. you know it's kinda funny how punk purism exists because punk albums need to be rated with a simple test of "is it really punk tho?" this one's a no doubter.

Bad Bunny absolutely leveled up with this one, and he did it by embracing tradition. innovation through an appreciation for what came before. his other stuff is fantastic but this one is on another level.

funny to review this after Revolver which is of course such a great album but now I have to freak out. THIS NEVER GETS OLD! all timer. who can pick a favorite Beatles album? no one can!!!!!! and the snobs would probably pick a later one. but this one??? ugggghhhhhhh so good. I love them ALL! when they say "You're such a lovely audience" they mean me right?

underrated entry in the Beatles' discography, underappreciated as it straddles the early-late Beatles spectrum. feel like the jump from Drive My Car to Norwegian Wood right at the start says enough. like, in a Beatles trivia contest, I feel like a lot of people would guess Drive My Car was an earlier track and Norwegian Wood was later.

darkly beautiful, music for brooding. "dark cabaret" is one of the funniest sub-sub-genre names. it's apt but just because it's dark doesn't mean it's not musical theater adjacent. gonna remember that the next time I feel judged for appreciating Les Miserables.

awesome, lifted weights to this, will lift weights to this again. great reminder of the importance of listening to new albums in this era of streaming. not everyone is just making great singles and a bunch of decent songs to pad it out, this album is packed full of tracks that could be great singles.

sometimes I think I'm depressed but then I listen to the right music and it all goes away

like time traveling back to a lit beatnik party on the border in 1962

BREATHTAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!