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Apple Music tells me that this was one of my most-listened to albums of 2023, and it's still in regular rotation. Ten perfectly crafted electronic tone poems, or maybe short stories told in beeps and boops, by turns menacing, nostalgic, and sweet. Especially recommended to listen to on headphones after nibbling half an edible before drifting off to sleep. (See also NWBC co-collaborators' solo projects: DJ Python's hypnotic percussive tapestry Mas Amable, and Ana Roxanne's trippy ambient daydream Because of a Flower.)
Apr 7, 2024
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this is like 70% the future of pop music and 30% prog rock, it's a concept album about transformation through the thematic lens of aliens sticking a CD in your head, and the nerds over on rateyourmusic are calling it the album of the year. get this - they're right. saw it live the other week and maybe got a gig of the year out of it as well. I mean look at that.
Dec 4, 2024
here's a completely under the radar gem of weirdo bedroom folk pop filled with bubblings of synths and fluttering flutes and random eclectic acoustic instrumentations, fragments of hooks and choruses, digressions into distortions and reemergences of natural ambiances with waterfall sounds, harps, xylophones, all mixed together in such a wonderful and fascinating way and i've been obsessed now for months... it sounds to me as if daniel johnston in his prime had access to a DAW.
May 10, 2024
I’m a sucker for ambient music, and who better to turn to than one of the pioneers of the genre himself!
Eno creates some really sonically rich, textured environments within each track, with an abundance of details that can be easy to miss on first listen. I def recommend multiple listens, as it’s great for both background noise and intentional listening.
Mar 22, 2025
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Along with keeping a water carafe next to your bed and linen spray, making your bed every morning is one of the most effective and underestimated things for maintaining good sleep hygiene, which is so important! I will never understand people who don't make their bed because it's just going to become unmade again (it took years of patient positive reinforcement training to get my boyfriend to stop being like this.) Making your bed as soon as you get up is not only empowering and gets your day off to a productive start— look, you've only been awake for five minutes and you've already accomplished something! — but evening you will be grateful to morning you for allowing you the luxurious experience of slipping into a properly made bed every night.
Apr 6, 2024
Even though Peep Show always winds up on lists of the best TV comedies of all time it's still strangely underappreciated and not nearly as well known on this side of the Atlantic as it should be. David Mitchell and Robert Webb are comedic geniuses and raise cringe to a legitimate art form. Plus it's created and co-written by Jesse Armstrong, who later went on to make Succession, so it's better than anything else for filling any Succession-shaped holes in your life even though it's a completely different kind of show.
Apr 5, 2024
Rich people’s bedrooms always smell really nice (ask me how I know this) as do expensive hotels - and your bedroom can smell great too! Find a small empty spray bottle and fill it up with half witch hazel (everyone should have witch hazel in their bathroom cabinet; stay tuned for another rec on this) and half filtered or bottled water (Evian or Fuji if you’re really feeling it.) Add your choice of essential oil(s) – start with about 20 drops per every cup of liquid and increase from there if needed. I like a blend of mostly lavender oil with a couple of drops of peppermint oil to open nasal passages and vetiver oil for grounding. Shake well and keep the bottle on your nightstand. Make a ritual of spraying it a few times over your pillow and sheets right before you climb in bed every night and I guarantee you will fall asleep faster, sleep more deeply, and have dreams in which you live in a gorgeous apartment in Paris.
Apr 6, 2024