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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Frank Ene

San Francisco artist Frank Ene's new album "Cruel a l'amour" drops this Friday, and he just released the wonderful and melancholy new single "I Always Meant to Do Your Harm." Dig on the sweet synths and gravelly baritone vocals below, like Leonard Cohen fronting a synth pop band on a John Hughes movie soundtrack. And get the record here.

The Twelve Hour Foundation

UK analog electronic duo The Twelve Hour Foundation have a new album coming out later this year that's a celebration of people and architecture around Reading, and they've been kind enough to release a couple of extended reworkings of tracks from the record. Check out "Quicksilver Records" below, download it here from Castles in Space, and be on the lookout for "The Hexagonal World of The Twelve Hour Foundation" LP in the near future.

Daily Jam - Motownphilly

We've all got to be honest with ourselves here: Boyz II Men's "Motownphilly" still slaps. Listen below, our Daily Jam.

Monday, January 2, 2023

Sadness

The one-man shoegaze and atmospheric black metal act known as Sadness has quite the prolific output. The artist has a multitude of albums, singles, and splits to sift through full of sprawling and epic bursts of lo-fi noise, ambience, discordance, and bliss. "2010 Flowers" from the artist's latest split release with A Rose Dying in The Rain, is something else. Starting as a quiet and melancholy lament, acoustic guitar and vocals in an endless tunnel, the track eventually segues into a kind of emotional post rock anthem, a last will and testament. I love it. Check the track out below and get the "Daydream Flowers" split here for a dollar.

Daily Jam - Personality Crisis

It's wild how one album went on to inspire the glam, punk, and metal scenes simultaneously. God bless the New York Dolls. Here they are with "Personality Crisis," our Daily Jam.

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Krano

It's always nice to stumble upon a piece of music that feels like it's exactly where your brain is at the moment. And so we have the new song "See" by Krano. A wonderful mix of psych and country and folk that just kind of meanders along, but not without purpose. Check it out below and pre-order the upcoming new album "Lentius Profundius Suavius" here from Maple Death Records.

Daily Jam - Deanna (Acoustic Version)

Starting the year off as positive as possible. And Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' acoustic version of "Deanna" seemed like a good way to begin. Check it out below, our Daily Jam.

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Daily Jam - What a Wonderful World

See you guys on the other side. This is the energy i'm going to try to head into 2023 with. Listen to Louis Armstrong and "What a Wonderful World" below, our Daily Jam. Happy new year.

Favorite 20 Movies of 2022

Well, i waited as long as i could to write up my favorite movies of the year. Time will not allow me to view anymore, but that's okay i guess. I'm hoping to catch some things like The Fabelmans and Babylon sooner rather than later. Anyway, there's a lot of horror as per usual, a kids movie i did not expect to like nearly as much as i did, an extremely divisive "biopic," a hilarious "biopic," an episode from a Netflix anthology (cheating), and so much more. It's always hard to pick a favorite, but if you twisted my arm, it would probably be RRR. Now, i've been cleaning the house all day, which with two young boys after Christmas is the endeavor you'd expect it to be, so i'll just let the titles and posters speak for themselves. Check 'em out.