1. Shannon & the
Clams - Onion
Yearning. The way the
light plays off their hair. The taste of their cherry Chapstick still lingering
about your lips on the long walk home. The exciting smell of their sweat.
Feeling guilty/not guilty about stealing a their shirt and sleeping with it
beneath your pillow. Yearning. Secret middle of the night phonecalls made at a
prearranged time that takes forever to arrive so you never can get to sleep or
back to sleep and it just doesn't matter. What would their dad do to you if he
found out? The fear. The excitement. Yearning.
2. Hawthonn - Red
Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
Springtime roots
stretch out to strangle. Summertime river plots your murder. Autumn reminds you
of decline. Winter simply buries you.
3. Jonny Greenwood -
Phantom Thread (OST)
Amble without purpose
or direction. Spend a day watching yesterday's cold rain transform into today's
sunlit steam. Say "fuck it" and believe it since it's a goddamn
miracle you're even alive to experience feelings of frustration, worry, and
fear. Listen to this album. It was a mantra for a lighter disposition for me
this year.
4. Khruangbin - Con
Todo El Mundo
Profile : strong hints
of copal, palo santo, petrichor, musk, jasmine, leather, smoky mescal, and
glitter.
5. Dylan Carlson -
Conquistador
Burn the house down.
Drive to the desert. Burn the car. Walk. Find a cave. Start another fire. Drink
your bottle down. Shoot your bottle. Take a shard and kill a snake. Eat the
snake. Be the snake. Crawl into the fire. Abyss.
6. A Hawk and a
Hacksaw - Forest Bathing
If I were a LARPer,
I'd listen to nothing but these guys while my squire tended to my styrofoam
sword and shield.
7. Otto Lindholm -
Alter
Every night I dream of
a approaching wave, thousands of feet high. Sometimes I make the futile effort
to get to higher ground. Sometimes, I turn my back to it and sit on the ground.
Sometimes, I face it as it slowly approaches, rising above me. I always wake at
the deafening moment of impact.
8. Jóhann Jóhannsson
- Mandy (OST)
His completed project
before his death at an early age this year. Strong to the end.
9. Tom Yorke -
Suspiria (OST)
10. Alison Cotton -
All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
