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Perfect Days
Wim Wenders
As a lover of physical media, this movie is perfect. It's a movie about enjoying the little things in life, and most importantly, it's a reminder to be yourself. Don't let anyone tell you how to find your happiness.
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Bright Future (LP)
Adrienne Lenker
When you strip the world of its parts, you're left with the wistfulness of an acoustic guitar and the memories that you've held on to. As Adrienne Lenker of Big Thief ruminates on love and memory, she brings you closer into her world, and perhaps, even closer to yourself.
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Diamond Jubilee (LP)
Cindy Lee
Torn between the past, present, and future, Patrick Flegel's hypnagogic pop is a testament to lost media and antiquated vocal stylings that never quite lost their touch. Like a worn cassette buzzing through a dusty boombox.
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We Still Don't Trust You (LP)
Future & Metro Boomin
Future's 2024 run was nothing short of legendary, and 'We Still Don't Trust You' was the pinnacle of it all. While Metro Booomin sculpted luxe '90s R&B beats, Future interpolated soul classics to create one of his own. He croons liquid gold and he raps with diamond-cut opulence.
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Southeast (Other)
Young Slo-Be
A seminal album from Stockton, California's sample drill scene. Released less than two months before his untimely passing, the project is treatise on love, morality, and overall, a tribute to the 2100 block of Nightingale Avenue. Dubbed smirkish music, Young Slo-Be's style of whisper rap is gritty, witty, and irrevocably brilliant.
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Wish You Were Here (LP)
Pink Floyd
This album is undoubtedly a classic, but I listened to it for the first time late last year, and from the 10+ minute ballads to the electric guitar riff on "Have A Cigar" and the deteriorating mental state of Syd Barrett, the album struck an intense chord with me and it's provided me a great source of comfort whenever I'm feeling lost and alone.
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Blue Nights (Book)
Joan Didion
I'm a night owl. I love the quiet hum of the resting world. I love the break of dawn. The deep blue light: a heavy indigo, sometimes a pale navy, sometimes scored by crickets chirping and birds singing. Melancholy rests in the night; insomnia lurks; the quiet settles like a blanket. 'Blue Nights' preceded my love for Joni Mitchell's 'Blue,' it proceeded my love for Derek Jarman's 'Blue,' and it's the perfect accompaniment to Kenny Burrell's 'Midnight Blue.'
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Sometimes I Think Abut Dying (BLU)
Rachel Lambert
'Sometimes I Think About Dying' is the best depiction of social anxiety I've ever seen displayed in film. The score blends the ambience of an office cubicle with the flowery strings of a Disney film. It's heartwarming, hyperrealistic, surrealist, and everything you'd expect plus more.
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Goes to Africa With Love (LP)
Southern University Jazz
This is absolutely incredible I've been looping and looping it. Unbelievably ripping university Big Band from 1971, spiritual jazz, intuitive and ascending. The soloists take these simple solos that just send you. The rhythms vamp and vamp. Totally incredible
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Skinny Pimp Vol 1 (LP)
Skinny Pimp
So cool to see this re-released. It's so raw, it's so inspired. Far out and scary and funny. One of those albums that resets you to hear, sets your priorities right.
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Blue Notes for Mongezi (LP)
The Blue Notes
A recent Peter Brotzmann biography has sent me down a fiendish Louis Moholo whirlpool and this one in particular I just keep coming back to. You would think there were 25 people playing instead of 4 but it's not maximalist or overwhelming. Just endlessly rich. Deep. They're just ripping so hard, punching way above their weight
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From the Bank of Fragile Time (Cassette)
Bromp Treb
The pop music this world only half deserves! Utterly warped everything, utterly singular. It's way left field but never pretentious, never academic. Obnoxious in all the right ways. A small release so it'll be tough to find but some lucky few will be so in love with this
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The Candy Snatchers (BLU)
Very effective cult item is above-average in nearly every respect. The script is well-written, direction skillful, characters are developed and performances capable. Grim, misanthropic exploitation that tells a compelling, unpredictable story you won't forget.
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