hi, hello!
It’s good to have your eyes and ears. Here’s what I’ve been listening to for the past month.
I’ve got a full month of songs for you in the 2024 playlist—almost two hours of tunes. If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know I often come up with themes each month to help guide my daily listening.
This month’s theme was the color blue. I listened to albums with any shade or amount of blue on their album cover. It didn’t matter how much, it just had to feature the color blue. (Yes, blue is my favorite color.)
I know blue is often associated with sadness. But for me, it represents slowing down and looking inward. I so appreciate an introspective start to the new year, and I’m sure that comes across as you listen to this playlist. Many of the songs are slow, thoughtful, ambient, emotional, or a combination of all of the above.
Ending the month with Florist’s If Blue Could Be Happiness was the cherry on top of a good month of music. I’ll let you get to listening, but first here are a few standouts.
Catchiest song of the month:
Favorite lyric:
“Rocks you keep in your car door have traveled through far more than your life. Windows down, you sing along. I don't think I've heard this song before.”
- Helena Deland, “Bright Green Vibrant Gray”
Here is the rock I keep in my car door. My brother, Sam, gave it to me after he visited Utah a few summers ago. If you’ve got rocks in your car, share! Rocks rock!
Band of Horses, Things Are Great
The Dixie Cups, Chapel of Love
Loving, Loving
Sigur Rós, ÁTTA
Kate Bollinger, Look at it in the Light
Ethan Tasch, Got Him!
Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train
Skullcrusher, Quiet the Room
Hania Rani, Home
Amber Mark, Three Dimensions Deep
Helena Deland, Goodnight Summerland
Medium Build, roughboy
FKA twigs, CAPRISONGS
Mina, Studio Uno '66
Phantom Planet, Phantom Planet Is Missing
Kacey Johansing, No Better Time
Kacey Johansing, Year Away
Devendra Banhart, Flying Wig
Mick Jenkins, Pieces of a Man
Kurt Vile, Back to Moon Beach
Billy Joel, Glass Houses
BADBADNOTGOOD, Talk Memory
You'll Never Get to Heaven, Images
Spiritualized, Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Yellow House, A Carnival of Fears
KAYTRANADA, 99.9%
Reneé Rap, Snow Angel
John Prine, Sweet Revenge
Sven Wunder, Natura Morta
Woody Goss, High Loon!
Florist, If Blue Could Be Happiness
Thanks for reading, thanks for listening.
- emily