ON ROTATION

Lots of great music. Not enough time to write about it all...but here's what's on rotation for me right now. 

Wave, Dream

   

Champan A, The Empathy Machine

   

ON ROTATION

Lots of great music. Not enough time to write about it all...but here's what's on rotation for me right now. 

Laura Marling, Song For Our Daughter

   

Ron Sexsmith, Hermitage

   

ON ROTATION

Lots of great music. Not enough time to write about it all...but here's what's on rotation for me right now. 

Rina Sawayama, Sawayama

   

The Bombpops, Death in Venice Beach

   

Cozycow, Feverdreams

I've been super excited for Cozycow to drop his first album. First, because he's a super talented, writer, musician, and producer. Second, because he's my son. Feverdreams is everything that I thought it would be and much, much more. Taking off my father hat and putting on my music appreciation one, I will say that this is an amazing album and one of the best of the year so far. Putting back on my father hat, I want to add that I'm so proud of him. 

   

Fiona Apple, Fetch The Bolt Cutters

I've listened to Fiona Apple's fifth album, Fetch The Bold Cutters, multiple times over the past three days since it was first released. I cannot get it out of my head, needing to hear it again and again. As Contributing Editor Jenn Pelly wrote, this album is 'unbound'. Pelly writes,"No music has ever sounded quite like it. 

Apple recorded Fetch the Bolt Cutters both in and with her Venice Beach home, banging on its walls, stomping on its ground. Self-reliance is its rule, curiosity is its key. Fetch the Bolt Cutters seems to almost completely turn the volume down on music history, while it cranks up raw, real life—handclaps, chants, and other makeshift percussion, in harmony with space, echoes, whispers, screams, breathing, jokes, so-called mistakes, and dog barks. (At least five dogs are credited: Mercy, Maddie, Leo, Little, and Alfie.) All of this debris orbits around the core of Apple’s music: her voice, her piano, and most of all her words, which have always been her primary instrument. It creates a wild symphony of the everyday." 

So what's it all about? Again Pelly, "It happens to most of us at an early age: the realization that life will not follow a straight line on the path towards fulfillment. Instead, life spirals. The game is rigged, power corrupts, and society is, in a word, bullshit. Art can expose the lies.....On Fetch the Bolt Cutters, she unapologetically indicts the world around her. And she rejects its oppressive logic in every note. The very sound of Fetch the Bolt Cutters dismantles patriarchal ideas: professionalism, smoothness, competition, perfection — aesthetic standards that are tools of capitalism, used to warp our senses of self.”

   

ON ROTATION

Lots of great music. Not enough time to write about it all...but here's what's on rotation for me right now. 

Pacific Ranger, High Upon The Mountain

   

Phish, Sigma Oasis