A single data point, but irrefutable evidence of how little music I’ve listened to this year: The number of Pitchfork’s 50 best albums of 2024 of which I am familiar is in the single digits. Usually I’m familiar with at least half, and listened to a good third start to finish. 🎵
🎵 Trio Session Demos - Okonski - ★★★★☆
🎵 Technically Acceptable - Ethan Iverson - ★★★☆☆
Weird album. Very inconsistent from song to song, both in terms of mood but also in quality.
Now playing 🎵 O.P.P. - Naughty By Nature - ★★★★★
Playing the jams on the local radio this morning.
Now playing, Stakes is High
Is anyone using Music Board? Seems like a Letterboxd/Goodreads for music. Are there better or just interesting alternatives?
🎥🎵 Adeste Fideles, Gaby Moreno (YouTube).
Still a very underrated musician, and her christmas album even more so.
🎥 Linus and Lucy: with the Frank Granelli Trio, YouTube
Gestrin (piano) and Fisk (bass) struggling to leep up, but the master makes it look easy.
🎵🎥 Evelyn King, Love Come Down
Good way to start the morning with my coffee. ☕️
Who is America’s best vocalist, and why is it Sam Cooke?
Earworm courtesy of a YouTube suggestion, which I did not watch, for the 1812 overture. 🤙🏽
Yesterday a student admitted to not knowing the meaning of “ripping” a CD.
To be clear—not “Oh, yeah I heard of it, but never knew what it meant.” Rather, “Uhm, what is ripping and why would anyone ‘rip’ a CD?”
🗞 🎵 Nature in a human crisis pt.3 - Spacewalk Audio
Fastest subscribe I’ve done in a while once I discovered @spacewalkaudio on soundcloud.
🗞 Why has classical music declined? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tyler mentions them, but I’m going with two wars that destroyed European culture and technologies that shifted “music” from the score to the recording (read: personality).
🎵 The Grey Albumn (Remastered) – A classical I recently rediscovered this morning.
