solivagant

praise a lord who chews but which does not consume; (or simply, hot between worlds)

yves tumor (2023)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

bad son

curtis waters (2023)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

исход

ермак! (2022)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

4 o'clock in the afternoon

chase petra (2022)

favourite tracks:

1. Casimir Pulaski Day
2. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
3. John Wayne Gacy Jr.
4. Chicago

best when/for:

the same minimalistically raw and beautiful instrumentals and vocals of carrie & lowell but perhaps a bit lighter and happier, young love, a gentle sense of hopefulness

skinty fia

fontaines d.c. (2022)

favourite tracks:

1. all i need
2. faust arp
3. 15 step
4. weird fishes/arpeggi

best when/for:

studying, finishing assignments the night before they're due, but also getting ready to go on a night out with friends, beautiful underapperciated almost glorious instrumentals, i think this is such a versatile album hence why it was my most listened in 2023 and i think it encapsulates my 2023 pretty well as a year

painless

nilufer yanya (2022)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

the gods we can touch

aurora (2022)

favourite tracks:

1. Love Songs On The Radio
2. Mercy
3. Where Is The Love
4. Tomorrow's Taken

best when/for:

being sad but a warm lonely type of sad, studying in that aforementioned sadness, no longer being sad and just feeling warm and at home, autumn

celestial blues

king woman (2021)

favourite tracks:

1. No Surprises
2. Paranoid Android
3. Karma Police
4. Subterranean Homesick Alien

best when/for:

what can i say, it's literally radiohead ok computer it's perfect and a masterpiece

moodswings in this order

dpr ian (2021)

favourite tracks:

1. ocean blvd
2. A&W
3. Candy Necklace
4. Let the Light In

best when/for:

hauntingly beautiful muted piano, long quiet walks through the streets, deep breaths, quintessential lana del rey lyrics

other:

saw live summer 2023, incredible experience

heaven to a tortured mind

yves tumor (2020)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

птицы

ермак! (2020)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

call for help

pearly drops (2020)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

hallelujah

the novembers (2020)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

a different kind of human (step 2)

aurora (2019)

favourite tracks:

1. Everything Means Nothing To Me
2. Easy Way Out
3. Somebody That I Used To Know
4. Son Of Sam

best when/for:

first introduced me to elliott smith so perhaps a touch of nostalgia, used to be able to study to it but not anymore, bittersweet love and hopelessness, gentle whispery vocals that make every lyric feel like a personal confession

igor

tyler the creator (2019)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

safe in the hands of love

yves tumor (2018)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

broken machine

nothing but thieves (2017)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

paradise

anohni (2017)

favourite tracks:

1. Music When The Lights Go Out
2. Can't Stand Me Now
3. What Katie Did
4. Arbeit Macht Frei

best when/for:

walking down the street at 2x speed overtaking every single person, would be amazing live, would also be amazing at a houseparty, kind of radiates the quintessential getting drunk in a field british experience talking to new people and not caring about anything else but the moment you're living in

science fiction

brand new (2017)

favourite tracks:

1. desert
2. could never be heaven
3. can't get it out
4. lit me up

best when/for:

being sad but a warm lonely type of sad, studying in that aforementioned sadness, no longer being sad and just feeling warm and at home, autumn

avalon vales

lauren bousfield (2016)

favourite tracks:

1. Jupiter
2. Curl up & Die
3. When You Wash Your Hair
4. Krystal

best when/for:

rotting in your room, "curl up and die" in a warm bed, desolation, gentle homely comfortable instrumentation, a sense of conclusion or perhaps indicating a new chapter

better nature

silversun pickups (2015)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

o marineros

marineros (2015)

favourite tracks:

1. Ultraviolence
2. Pretty When You Cry
3. Old Money
4. Cruel World

best when/for:

theatrical melancholy, "I'm churning out novels like Beat poetry on amphetamines", new york city (i've never been to new york city)

nothing but thieves

nothing but thieves (2015)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

5

труд (2014)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

crosses

crosses (2014)

favourite tracks:

1. Dance Me to the End of Love
2. The Law
3. Hallelujah
4. Hunter's Lullaby

best when/for:

feeling your soul, feeling comforted & completely at rest, long slow relationships

supermodel

foster the people (2014)

favourite tracks:

1. Sextape
2. Beauty School
3. 967-Evil
4. Risk

best when/for:

first introduced me to ... metal? deftones-esque rock? wikipedia says shoegaze but ??? i don't think so, getting ready for a party, feelings of power

purge

cloudeater (2013)

favourite tracks:

1. Paradise
2. Kiss of Life
3. Smooth Operator
4. The Sweetest Taboo

best when/for:

silky smooth vocals, floating light jazz tones, small intimate house parties

6 feet beneath the moon

king krule (2013)

favourite tracks:

1. Kill V Maim
2. Artangels
3. Venus Fly
4. Flesh Without Blood

best when/for:

being camp, a slight touch of delusion and recklessness, walking through the streets feeling like a teenage girl without a care in the world, i feel like this album would look like a kaleidoscope

evil friends

portugal. the man (2013)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

shinsei kamattechan

noko (2013)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

sublime currency

abandoned pools (2012)

favourite tracks:

1. Music When The Lights Go Out
2. Can't Stand Me Now
3. What Katie Did
4. Arbeit Macht Frei

best when/for:

walking down the street at 2x speed overtaking every single person, would be amazing live, would also be amazing at a houseparty, kind of radiates the quintessential getting drunk in a field british experience talking to new people and not caring about anything else but the moment you're living in

koi no yokan

deftones (2012)

favourite tracks:

1. Starman
2. Moonage Daydream
3. Five Years
4. Suffragette City

best when/for:

david bowie, i love david bowie, feeling like a real person, smiling grinning being happy and carefree with friends singing along to the music, being culturally revolutionary as i think his work will forever be unparalleled

neck of the woods

silversun pickups (2012)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

rules

civil civic (2011)

favourite tracks:

1. the queen is dead
2. bigmouth strikes again
3. frankly, mr shankly
4. there is a light that never goes out

best when/for:

having the realest title ever, having the best dry & witty lyrics, sprightliness, having some utterly miserable songs but i can't imagine being miserable listening to them, vivid memories of singing "there is a light that never goes out" with my friends in the streets "if a double decker bus crashes into us"

torches

foster the people (2011)

favourite tracks:

1. Liquid Smooth
2. Pearl Diver
3. Brand New City
4. Bag Of Bones

best when/for:

i remember listening to liquid smooth for the first time and being in utter awe, simply sitting and appreciating in tortured anguish (in a beautiful way), gorgeous raw vocals, heartbreakingly beautiful, probably the most impressive debut album ever

eureka

mother mother (2011)

favourite tracks:

1. Bug Like an Angel
2. My Love Mine All Mine
3. The Deal
4. When Memories Snow

best when/for:

beautifully conveying the idea that we are on this planet to love, warmth and intimacy, open but comfortable vunerability, i think this is my favourite mitski album; i love every song & they each add something slightly different creating a perfect mix w no skips

yuck

yuck (2011)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

diamond eyes

deftones (2010)

favourite tracks:

1. take me to church
2. angel of small death and the codeine scene
3. like real people do
4. cherry wine

best when/for:

godliness, meaningful and devastatingly gorgeous lyricism, feeling like your soul is physically open and in another world

other:

saw live summer 2023
saw with my best friend and i think it was one of the most incredible and beautiful nights of my life

flowering

tk from ling tosite sigure (2010)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

just a moment

ling tosite sigure (2009)

favourite tracks:

1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Cherry-coloured Funk
3. Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
4. Pitch the Baby

best when/for:

a cacophony of shimmery instrumental atmosphere, metamorphosis, soundtrack to downing but drowning in a flowery koi fish pond perhaps painted by van gogh but a little bit more psychedelic, soft and overwhelming at the same time

swoon

silversun pickups (2009)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

heal for the honey

brooke waggoner (2008)

favourite tracks:

1. Just
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4. Black Star

best when/for:

"YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF", walking down the street at 2x speed overtaking every single person but in self hatred at the same time, getting ready to go out, incredible guitar work to be intricately appreciated

deathconsciousness

have a nice life (2008)

favourite tracks:

1. 4AM
2. We Appreciate Power
3. Violence
4. New Gods

best when/for:

being camp, telling yourself you're a robot, being like the modern day happier higher energy version of cocteau twins, ethereal vocals

touch up

mother mother (2007)

favourite tracks:

1. Spellbound
2. Arabian Knights
3. Into The Light
4. Sin In My Heart

best when/for:

revelry, relentless energy, speedwalking on a good outfit day

in rainbows

radiohead - (2007)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

like drawing blood

gotye (2006)

favourite tracks:

1. Sour Times
2. Glory Box
3. Mysterons
4. Roads

best when/for:

mesmerising soundscapes, feeling beautiful and mysterious on a foggy dark night, clean breathy vocals with a slight sense of fragility, intricate attention to detail

armed to the teeth

abandoned pools (2005)

favourite tracks:

1. fourth of july
2. death with dignity
3. should have known better
4. the only thing

best when/for:

feeling overly aware of death, reading through genius annotations, feelings of transcendence and existential questioning, minimalistically raw and beautiful instrumentals and vocals

other:

this dreamlike performance of carrie & lowell is really beautiful: https://youtu.be/9FX34TjJe-c?si=zClZQbQpij2Pv7YZ

pikul

silversun pickups (2005)

favourite tracks:

1. She's So Lovely
2. Elegy to the Void
3. Somewhere Tonight
4. Majorette

best when/for:

slow breaths, small soft moments held in stasis, slow motion, spiralling/spinning, "Sons and daughters/ Bending at the altar/ Disappearing in the mirror", but better things are to come, current listening on repeat whilst studying for a subject i enjoy during break under a lack of particular stress

details

frou frou (2002)

favourite tracks:

1. communist love song
2. the priest
3. laundrydaydreams
4. i am sitting in a room

best when/for:

"i will be your berlin wall and i will never fall", gentle and simple hopelessness, things coming to an end, yearning

humanistic

abandoned pools (2001)

favourite tracks:

1. never is a promise
2. sleep to dream
3. criminal
4. sullen girl

best when/for:

the most powerful soulful vocals, learning every lyric akin to learning the bible, perfectly esoteric mix of jazz rock and a touch of pop, sweet sweet unapologetic misandry

the argument

fugazi (2001)

favourite tracks:

1. Some Things Cosmic
2. If it's Alive, it Will
3. Drunk and with Dreams
4. Creator, Destroyer

best when/for:

grief but also freedom, a far-away ghosty reverb like you're hearing it from an old record player from another room in a crumbling victorian house, writing essays

heaven or las vegas

cocteau twins (1990)

favourite tracks:

1. Paradise
2. Kiss of Life
3. Smooth Operator
4. The Sweetest Taboo

best when/for:

silky smooth vocals, floating light jazz tones, small intimate house parties