🎶
☆ TILT (2/8/25) ☆
The mix of harpsichord and saxophone in this is just too good.
Link to the video on YouTube
Feb 9, 2025
Related Recs
This is normally not my style of music, but the amount of talent and joy in this video is just awesome. The way Susan Tedeschi plays around with total command of her voice, the glances between her and her husband as he takes the guitar for a spin, the backup singers letting it rip, drummer with the toothpick just chilling in the back, sax going crazy, trombone player having the time of their life. They look like a bunch of high school teachers just blowing off steam, having some fun. Tedeschi looks like she could be standing in line at a st*rbucks in the suburbs and here she is belting out these full husky notes. Incredible watch.
Jul 2, 2024
3 sisters with ethereal harmonies! a friend put this record on last weekend and it reminded me how immensely special they are.
see also: joan baez always, norma tanega is also wildly talented
Jan 24, 2025
As embodied by "You're Not the Only One I Know."
Harriet's voice is a lot like Chrissie Hynde's in that she could basically be singing the dictionary and I'd fall over. But she is vulnerable where Chrissie is tuff.
Maybe the real point is: she's not humming banalities. She's singing about ambivalence and self-doubt and ennui and regret and all the things that are so relevant today but she was doing this in the 80s. When a lot of music was shit and so it really stood out as gem-like then, and now.
Plus, for you guitar nerds out there, there's some Johnny Marr/Smiths-like playing happening here: loads of 7ths (Fmaj7/Cmaj7/Dmin7) that give this song and many others they recorded a chiming, open-ended quality that matches the lyrics.
I heart this band and I have for decades now. (swoon)
Apr 19, 2024
Top Recs from @shrimp
☆ TILT (2/10/25) ☆
I’ve really been falling into early 2000s nostalgia recently. This song is so dreamlike and airy.
Link to the video on YouTube
Feb 11, 2025
☆ TILT (2/13/25) ☆
I feel like everyone moved on from this way too fast. One of the songs where the music video enhances it by 1000%
Link to the video on YouTube
Feb 13, 2025
☆ (TILT 2/7/25) ☆
This is my second Lady Gaga "Today I Listened To" and surely not my last. I think many people have been nostalgic for the music of the mid-2000s as we plunge headfirst into all of the heartbreak and chaos that 2025 is bringing.
Enter "Abracadabra", a teaser for the upcoming LG7 album, that I really just chalked up as a fun, energetic dance song at first. But after listening to the song several times and coming across a TikTok video analyzing some of the lyrics, I feel like this is the perfect anthem for the concept of Joy as Resistance.
The etymology of the word "abracadabra" is "I will create as I speak". In the face of adversity, we have no choice but to create the world we want to live in, molding ourselves into who we want to be without input from anyone else.
We have to "keep our mind on the distance" — the life we crave and desire for us and others — "when the Devil turns around”.
Link to the song on YouTube
Feb 7, 2025