Off the top of my head:
Four Songs by Blood Orange
Light Up Shoes 2 by Laundry Day
Windowlicker by Aphex Twin (it says single but it is an EP to me)
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Mar 8, 2024
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My favorite EPs are the ones where you can listen to the creative process playing out in real time. They can be either a bridge between one album's sound and the next, and include certain tracks that just quite didn't fit in either album, or they can even be their own little evolutionary dead ends, just completely divergent microprojects that the artist(s) felt still deserved to exist. Either way you get to see the evolution and it seems like you gain a little glimpse behind the scenes into a slightly less polished or less thought out and more exposed and adventurous version of the creative process. They signal development in its rawer and more pure form.
Anyway some of my favorites are:
- WHY?'s run of eps from 2003 to 2006.
- Ricky Eat Acid - like i was floating
- Tor/Sufjan Stevens - Illinoize
- TV Girl - self titled
- The Decemberists - Picaresqueties
- Field Medic - little place
- Divorcee - self titled (this one is cool because it came out roughly half a decade later, but it's a companion piece to WHY?'s Alopecia album, but is written by the woman Yoni (from WHY?) was dating at the time of that album, and therefore tells her point of view, but it was produced by Yoni, so it has the same overall sound and production vibe. It's a nice form of honesty and reconciliation).
- Girls - Broken Dreams Club (not sure if its technically an ep, but its only 30 minutes, which for that era, kind of feels like ep length)
- Millionyoung - Be So True
- James Blake - Klavierwerke
- Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
- Jay Electronica - Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (technically a mixtape, but its ep length)
- Small Black - self titled
- Okkervil River - Golden Opportunities (also technically a mixtape, but I'm including it since its not an album and not on streaming)
- Straylight Run - Prepare to be Wrong
- Vondelpark - Sauna
- Shlohmo - Places
- Shlohmo and Jeremih - No More
Mar 8, 2024
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- M3LL155X - FKA twigs
- EP2 - Yaeji
- Vaporize a Neighbor - Squid Pisser
- Pain / Ache / Loving - HUNNY
- The Boats&birds - Gregory and The Hawk
Mar 8, 2024
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Everything But the Girl - Lullaby of Clubland
Four Tet & Ellie Goulding - In My Dreams
Baird - Chasing Deer
Sylvan Esso - Kick Jump Twist
Caribou - Broke My Heart
Eliminate & Frost Children - SMSOU
Kaytranada & PinkPantheress - Snap My Fingers
fcukers - Bon Bon
Mat Zo - Only For You (ft. Rachel K Collier)
Neil Frances - Some Kind of Static
Floating Points - Birth4000
George Clanton & TV Girl - Butterflies (ft. Jordana)
Jadu Heart - I'm a Kid
Leon Vynehall - Shellac
Skrillex & Four Tet - Butterflies
Jan 16, 2025
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Apr 12, 2024
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When you’re in a slump, you’re in a slump.
Let yourself feel things. The good and the bad. I welcome them like a visitor and I invite them at the pretend dinner table in my head and get to know them, and I try not to ask them why they’re here. Why I feel things. I just let them be. Know that this will pass, just like a person visiting for a few nights and I try not to hold on to them when they’re ready to leave (yes those feelings will pass). Sounds very cliché but they do.
From my experience, the longer I fight the sadness/depression/slump, the longer it stays. I’ve learned just to take it day by day. This wouldn’t be possible without months of therapy where it was revealed to me that I’ve been so hard on myself almost my entire life.
I also meditate every night for 15-20 minutes. I take this activity so seriously, just a few minutes to close my eyes and release the tension I’ve felt the whole day. I love staying still. I love to close my eyes and think of nothing. My drive will come back.
What also helps (for me) is taking a few minutes a day to go outside and letting the sun touch my skin. It feels so good. Listen to the birds. Listen to the traffic. Just observe your surroundings and remember that there is life outside you and you are a part of something big and eventually you get inspired by something. May it be small or big. It will come back to you.
Be gentle and kind to yourself <3
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