Here's not not The Beths with a holiday classic.
Love that the bass player is in shorts. New Zealand Christmas.
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(4 votes, average: 9.50 out of 10)Loading... Here are New Zealanders attending a live concert in October 2020. Someday we'll all be doing this again too...
Book Pairing: Mars! Earthlings Welcome by Stacy McAnulty, illustrated by Stevie Lewis
And this concludes Pepper week--thanks for having me! 😘
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... The last time I had a guest DJ stint 'round these parts, I started off by not playing The Beths. So that gave me an obvious starting point this time around. I've been wanting to find a good live version of this song for quite a while now, and this one's pretty decent.
Book Pairing: I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott, illustrated by Sydney Smith.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... The Beths play some old ones, some new ones, and drop a sly cover in there.
(4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... (2 votes, average: 9.50 out of 10)Loading... (3 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)Loading... We've mentioned it before, but these guys are freaking awesome. Come, jump on the bandwagon with us. We'd be mighty happy to have you.
(4 votes, average: 9.50 out of 10)Loading... Don't you hate it when you have a pretty good idea of what your top 10 will be for the year, and then you hear something really excellent close to the end of the year and it throws everything into chaos? Yeah, I thought so!
Anyway, I read about Nadia Reid's debut album Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs (a melancholy album about a break-up by a woman is pretty much my wheelhouse this year) and immediately queued it up on Spotify. And when I finished listening to the album, I started it over again. And then got home and listened to it a few more times. This is pretty much all I listened to while writing papers for school last week. Anyway, here's probably my favorite song from it, "Holy Low."
J said the album gave her feelings of nostalgia that she couldn't quite place, and I totally get that. Her voice evokes a lot of bands I listened to in my late teen years, but I can't quite put my finger on who. Not that it really matters, since I just listen to the album over and over and worry that recency bias will make it too high in my top 10 this year. I suppose that isn't the end of the world when an album is this good.
For whatever it's worth, I think this is my top 10 as constructed today. It'll probably change sometime before the end of the year, but it's something!
01. Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
02. Colleen Green - I Want to Grow Up
03. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
04. Nadia Reid - Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
05. Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
06. Wimps - Suitcase
07. Childbirth - Women's Rights
08. Future - DS2
09. The Intelligence - Vintage Future
10. Spelljammer - Ancient of Days
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httpv://youtu.be/84EoBQfdrb0
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