2021: albums of the year

And a big year for albums, it seems Loraine James – Reflection I for sure slept on this one, thinking maybe that “Running Like That”…

2021: tracks of the year

Good records, I think. Slim Alli & The Hodi Boys – You Can Do It This megabop from 1970s Nairobi is syncopated in the right…

bossa x MoMa Ready

If I didn’t think it understated his achievement, I’d nominate MoMA Ready as the new Chris Cowie. Bossa Nova has also got to be one…

cold code

I was part of a very nice software engineering reading group at Spotify, just before I left. In addition to being around for the coining…

points west, points left

Still New York

and we’re back

If you were wondering if New York was back, there was a line for Nowadays thirty minutes before the doors opened at 10:00, in the…

New York, Again

tend to your garden

I played a lot of Hades over the winter. Like, “200 hours, 49/49, 32 heat clear with Merciful End” a lot. This got me thinking…

cartoons & classics

Want to save this amazing twitter thread of classical music in cartoons for a few reasons: One, it shows how much music we miss in…