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Dawn FM â The Weeknd
Find it. Spotify | Amazon The Weeknd leans all the way into the concept â a purgatory radio station, Jim Carrey as the DJ â and it shouldnât work but it does. The production is â80s-inflected and immaculate.Gasoline and Take My Breath are hits in the old-fashioned sense. His most cohesive album and his most interesting.The concept earns itself, which concepts rarely do. 8.5/10  If the reviewsâŚ
Ants from Up There â Black Country, New Road
Find it. Spotify | Amazon One of those albums with a backstory that threatens to overshadow the music â singer Isaac Wood left the band days before release. The music holds its own weight anyway. Dense post-rock arrangements, string quartets, moments of real beauty and real wreckage.Concorde is the emotional centrepiece and it earns every second. They made it through and so willâŚ
Your Blind Spots Are Exactly Where Youâre Most Confident
Your blind spots are, by definition, the things you canât see. This makes them difficult to address using the technique of looking harder, which is the technique most people try first. The only way to see your blind spots is to use other people as mirrors â people who will tell you what they observe without softening it into uselessness. This is why feedback is valuable and also why mostâŚ
And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow â Weyes Blood
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Middle chapter of a trilogy and it feels like it â this is where the questions get asked before the answers arrive. Natalie Meringâs orchestrations are lush, the songs stately and strange.Itâs Only Heaven is devastating if youâre in the right mood, which is to say: all moods. Baroque pop for people whoâve stopped explaining what that means.Essential. More essential thanâŚ
The Waiting Room Agreement
We understand. Nobody said it out loud, but everyone in a waiting room has silently agreed to a set of very specific rules. Donât make eye contact for more than a quarter of a second. Keep your phone unlocked as a prop. Do not eat something that smells of anything. Do not have a conversation on speaker. And crucially, do not acknowledge â not even slightly â that you are all in thisâŚ
The Automatic Watch Ritual That Changed How I Start Every Morning
Somewhere between the hotels in Turkey and the hotels in New Zealand, I developed a specific morning ritual. It involves coffee at whatever temperature room service has decided is appropriate, the particular quality of light that comes through a hotel curtain at 7am in an unfamiliar city, and the sound of an automatic watch winding itself in the corner of the room. The watch winder is, from aâŚ
The Mask You Wear Long Enough Becomes the Face
We all wear masks. This is not an accusation â itâs an observation. Different contexts call for different presentations. The version of you at a job interview is not the version of you at 3am when you canât sleep and youâre reading about something obscure because it interests you. Both are real. Both are you. They just have different costumes. The problem isnât wearing masks. The problem isâŚ
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert â Little Simz
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Simz puts in the work and shows it. This is an ambitious record â orchestral, conceptual, political â that succeeds on every level it attempts. Introvert opens like a declaration of war.Woman featuring Cleo Sol is the kind of collaboration that elevates both parties. The momentum doesnât let up across nineteen tracks.One of the strongest British rap records in years. SheâŚ
A Light for Attracting Attention â The Smile
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with Tom Skinner on drums â looser and more alive than Radiohead has felt in years. The Smile doesnât need the Radiohead name; this album earns its own reputation.Skinnerâs playing is the secret weapon. The Opposite and Thin Thing are the kind of songs that make everything else feel slightly beige.Essential. Not a side project â a properâŚ
The Antidote to Loneliness Isnât More People
The loneliest I have ever felt was in a room full of people who all knew each other and where I knew no one and nobody seemed to notice and the hors dâoeuvres were taking a very long time to come around. The least lonely I have ever felt was alone at a desk at 2am working on something I cared about deeply. The work was company enough. What Loneliness Actually Is Loneliness isnât the absence ofâŚ
What's Your Pleasure? â Jessie Ware
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Pure disco. Ware decided to make the late-night club record she wanted to dance to, and she made it. Not a retro exercise â contemporary pop that knows exactly what itâs doing and does it without irony.Every track is a candidate for the high point. Ooh La La and Soul Control are exactly what they sound like and more.Turn it up. This is what confidence sounds like in popâŚ
Blue Weekend â Wolf Alice
Find it. Spotify | Amazon If you want to know what guitar music can still do, this is your answer. Ellie Rowsell is one of the best rock vocalists working and the band is right there with her.The Last Man on Earth builds slowly until it completely isnât. No Hard Feelings closes the album on terms only they could set. A record that rewards volume.Mercury Prize well earned. Their best by someâŚ
Edinburgh Fringe: Where Everyone Is a Performer and the Weather Is Always Wrong
The first thing Edinburgh does when you arrive for the Fringe is make it clear that everyone here is doing a show. This includes the person in the supermarket, the taxi driver, the man flyering outside the venue next to yours who has a show about his divorce and has committed to performing it every day for a month regardless of audience size. The Fringe is the densest concentration of humanâŚ
Collapsed in Sunbeams â Arlo Parks
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Parks arrived fully formed and this debut confirms it. Her voice does that thing where it makes whateverâs around it feel warmer. The songs are compact, the production minimal, but the emotional density wonât let you go.Black Dog and Hurt are the ones that hit hardest. A beautiful thing, made by someone who clearly needed to make it.Twenty years old when she wrote mostâŚ
The Biggest Thing That Has Ever Happened
Big. Iâve been sitting with the scale of this for a while now and I still canât fully metabolise it. Grand Theft Auto VI is coming. And when I say coming, I donât mean âa game is being released.â I mean: an entertainment event larger than most human experiences is arriving, and somehow weâre all just getting on with things. Doing dishes. Replying to emails. As though the horizon isnât litâŚ
Maximum Resistance Means Youâve Found the Work
Steven Pressfield wrote a whole book about resistance and I am not going to plagiarise it, but I will say: he was right, and the thing he was right about has not diminished with time. Resistance is the force that makes you check your email when you should be working on the thing. The force that makes you clean the kitchen before sitting down to write. The force that makes every other task seemâŚ
Women in Music Pt. III â HAIM
Find it. Spotify | Amazon The sisters HAIM make something genuinely bittersweet â not just the love-and-loss stuff, but the whole industry critique sewn through it. The Steps remains irresistible.The production (with Ariel Rechtshaid and Rostam) splits the difference between polished and loose. The album earns its fifty-five minutes by the end.A career record. Better than it was given credit forâŚ