Amoeba hollywood Staff
Yousef
Amoeba Hollywood
Music journalist with words at Passion of the Weiss, Stereogum, the FADER and more. Currently writing a 33 1/3 about Frank Ocean's 'Blonde.' A West Coast hip-hop head, but always listening to anything and everything.
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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Reese
Amoeba Hollywood
Musician and Skateboarder from Virginia
Hell is Empty (CD)
Wolftraproad
"Hell is empty" is my self produced LP I released last year and was recorded in my room in Hollywood. Loud guitars, blissful piano and a ton of work. I put a lot into this one!
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Infiltrate-Destroy-Rebuild (CD)
CKY
Top tier guitar work and lyrics for me. I purchased this from our store (before working here) while writing my album. I got a ton of inspiration from this!
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In Utero (CD)
Nirvana
I love all aspects of this album. From the guitar tone to the songwriting, not mention it was recorded by Steve Albini!
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