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The most gorgeous morning commute music you can choose. The perpetual motion and repetitive tones get your brain ready for the mechanical nature of the workday, but the choice in instrumentation and the swells of whatever instrument is taking the lead really prime your soul to find wonder in your everyday.
Apr 6, 2025
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Some truly odd instrumentation, and an album that manages to be at once boldly experimental and supremely listenable.
Jan 27, 2024
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Can't pick favourites so I'm letting myself choose a bunch :) Sue me
Mogwai Fear Satan, Mogwai —A quarter of an hour of post-rock with a beautiful, beautiful build.
It Never Entered My Mind, Miles Davis Quintet — Feels a bit cheaty because it's jazz and there definitely are lyrics inspiring the lead melody.. still wonderful for pensive late-night walks.
Earth Moon Transit, Duster — if you haven't sat back and spent time with this album, what are you doing? Clear an evening and put it on repeat. Yes, technically it has lyrics. Personally I barely hear them.
Prologue, Kamasi Washington — Such powerful energy on the closing track of last year's album.
Blade Runner Blues, Vangelis — the song that made me fall in love with synthesisers.
Jan 6, 2025
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Stripping back the cult of ENO and just looking at the music, Music For Airports has got it all. Forget the Isaac Newton-y backstory (TLDR: Eno is bedridden while recuperating after being hit by a car, friend visits and puts on record, volume too low to “hear” properly, turntable too far to reach, the idea of music as room “tint” ensues), and the brilliance of the technical execution, the tunes are what matter here. I actually met ENO once, yes, in an airport. I associate this music along with a lot of the ENO cannon as the search for a romantic life. That there is more going on than meets the eye, but only if you look for it. Also the idea of Eno as the consummate “non-musician” is very appealing/comforting to me. Eno apparently said he sought to create music “as ignorable as it is interesting” which is great, and is coincidentally the basis of my personality.
Apr 6, 2021
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