Album of the month club recap — It was a grand turnout for our March album of the month club with lively conversation on how the grammar of Dots and Loops satisfies and frustrates. I was really taken by the poetic way everyone shared their experiences with this album. I want to thank all who attended for…

Notes for Album of the Month Club — When revisiting our past, are the emotional threads too tenuous to be safely investigated? And why does it have to be so sad looking back? Is it because we are not in the future we naively imagined then? These are the leading questions when I go back to the ethos…

Serge Gainsbourg on acid — A significant branch of my musical journey in the late ‘90s to the early aughts can be traced by Serge Gainsbourg’s influence: Beck, Air, Portishead, MC Solaar, Massive Attack, Yo La Tengo, Clinic, and present-day bands like Beach House and Tame Impala. My generation enjoyed an exciting shift in electronic…

Free verse recovery — stacked sideways eyes climb the bookcase, ascend from illegible brain infected grey lung hum oscillating headsplit gusts burning skin from muscle aborting ache of bones graining the view infirm with carpet germ vitreous floaters and ocular pressure, the gravity mind this isn’t the bedside scene in Victorian lit with a damsel…

Coming out of the fever — Crawling my way out of the worst Omicron symptoms with a good portion of the world, I immediately turn to the songs that have served as stepping stones in the mire. I started this playlist before getting sick and added tunes on the way. You can thank the fever dreams…