10 (actually 11) NON-co-sign ALBUMS I LOVED:
Aldous Harding - Designer
Badge Époque Ensemble - s/t
Big Thief - U.F.O.F. + Two Hands
Charli XCX - Charli
Erika de Casier - Essentials
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer
Purple Mountains - s/t
Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Anger Management
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
OTHER GREAT THINGS OF MY 2019:
- A lot of Brazilian funk, namely Tim Maia, Cassiano and Arthur Verocai.
- Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz + listening to Steve McQueen around once a week.
- So much Japanese music: Takao - Stealth was my most-listened to album of the year, Wednesday Campanella (album Superman), Masayoshi Takanaka (the cover of All Of Me + video for “Oh Tengo Suerte”), and somehow seeing CHAI, Otoboke Beaver, Shintaro Sakamoto, Kikagaku Moyo, Minami Deustch and Haruomi Hosono all in the same year.
- Alan Lomax (Root Hog or Die + United Sacred Harp Convention 1959)
- Dust To Digital twitter account
- My partner getting into medical school and moving to NYC.
- I Think You Should Leave
- Going to the most shows I’ve ever been to in a year. Highlights include Joanna Newsom @ El Museo del Barrio, Stereolab @ Brooklyn Steel, José González @ Apollo Theater, Kelly Moran @ Bushwick United Methodist Church, Ava Luna & Mr Twin Sister @ Warsaw, KOKOKO! @ Le Poisson Rouge, Charli XCX @ Terminal 5, Sacred Paws @ Rough Trade & SO many sets @ Merge 30.
- The egg tart + ceylon snickerdoodle from Fat Rice Bakery being the best worst things for my body.
- My shirt unknowingly getting on Rebecca Gates of The Spinanes’ Instagram during Merge 30.
- 1001% completing The Binding of Isaac.
- Parasite and Shoplifters being the best family films of the year.
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews making me cry on a plane, a train and an automobile.
