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Best Of Lists:
- Best of 2025 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2020-2024 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2020-2024 :: 100 Albums
- 2024 Retrospective
- Best of 2024 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2024 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2024 :: Live Shows
- 2023 Retrospective
- Best of 2023 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2023 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2023 :: Live Shows
- 2022 Retrospective
- Best of 2022 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2022 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2022 :: Live Shows
- Best of 2022 :: 10 EPs
- 2021 Retrospective
- Best of 2021 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2021 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2021 :: Live Shows
- Best of 2021 :: 10 EPs
- 2020 Retrospective
- Best of 2020 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2020 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2020 :: 10 EPs
- 2010s Retrospective
- Best of the 10s :: 200 Songs
- Best of the 10s :: 200 Albums
- 2019 Retrospective
- Best of 2019 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2019 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2019 :: Live Shows
- Best of 2019 :: 10 EPs
- 2018 Retrospective
- Best of 2018 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2018 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2018 :: Live Shows
- Best of 2018 :: 10 EPs
- Best of the 00s :: 100 Albums (Rework)
- 2017 Retrospective
- Best of 2017 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2017 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2017 :: 10 Shows
- Best of 2017 :: 10 EPs
- Revisiting 2013
- 2016 Retrospective
- Best of 2016 :: 100 Songs
- Best of 2016 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2016 :: 15 EPs
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- 2015 Retrospective
- Best of 2015 :: 100 Songs
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- Best of 2015 :: 15 EPs
- Best of 2015 :: Honorable Mentions
- Best of 2010 – 2014 :: 50 Albums
- 2014 Retrospective
- Best of 2014 :: 50 Songs
- Best of 2014 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2014 :: 10 EPs
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- 2013 Retrospective
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- Best of 2013 :: 15 EPs
- Best of 2013 :: Honorable Mentions
- 2012 Retrospective
- Best of 2012 :: 102 Songs
- Best of 2012 :: 50 Albums
- Best of 2012 :: Honorable Mentions
- 2011 Retrospective
- Best of 2011 :: 100 Songs
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- 2010 Retrospective
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Warm Visions Playlists:
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- 2010 – 2019 – The Master List
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- It Felt Good To Be Alone – Sad
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- My Black T-Shirt – Metal
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- Patchouli Sunrise – Peaceful Folk
- Rose Garden, 2AM – Infatuated
- Sand Dollar Jukebox – Summer
- Submerged Reflection – Hazy
- Sun Glitters on Cool Water – Shine
- Sunset High Dive – HypeM Replica
- 【☆sweet dream☆】 – Calm
- Winter Jacket Love Letter – Road
- Your Peculiar Glow – Light Bender
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A stream of consciousness music blog, active since 2010. Established in Ann Arbor, MI, currently in NYC.
Send me music: warmsubmissions @ gmail
I hope you enjoy your time here.
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Playlist: Sunset High Dive – Summer’s Eternal Horizon
The final installment of my summer 2025 synth pop / chillwave / balearic revival playlist series is the one I most clearly pair with a summery vision. The others could be a bit more modular, fitting in different scenarios. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged Airbird, Blondes, Boat Club, Body Language, brothertiger, Caribou, Casa Del Mirto, Computer Magic, Cut Copy, Delorean, Friendly Fires, George Clanton, Glasser, Holy Ghost, Jacques Renault, Lindstrøm, Mr Twin Sister, Mt. Si, Painted Palms, Phantogram, Plastic Plates, Playlist, Poolside, Prins Thomas, Puro Instinct, Selebrities, Shine 2009, Southern Shores, Teen Daze, Toro Y Moi, Tycho, Yeasayer
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Playlist: Melting Portal Vision – Pliable Reality
The third installment of my summer’s synth pop playlists, Melting Portal Vision leans into squelchy, rubbery and especially 80s-indebted synth textures more than the others in the series. It aims to be a dizzying, blissful sink into warm waters. Near … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Orange, Cut Copy, Delorean, DyE, Future Unlimited, Games, Grimes, Gypsy & the Cat, ice choir, Jensen Sportag, Men I Trust, MGMT, Neon Indian, nite jewel, Passion Pit, pictureplane, Playlist, Porcelain Raft, Pure Bathing Culture, Roman A Clef, School of Seven Bells, small black, Star Slinger, Surfing, Teams, Toro Y Moi, Woman's Hour
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Playlist: Sun Glitters on Cool Water – Remembered Paradise
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted a new playlist on the blog (also just posted anything period), but I’m breaking that dry spell with four new chillwave / balearic revival / synth pop playlists all set to soundtrack … Continue reading
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Tagged Air France, AlunaGeorge, Bear in Heaven, Beat Connection, Blood Orange, Classixx, Craft Spells, CSS, Delorean, Empress Of, ice choir, John Talabot, Kindness, Kisses, Korallreven, Lemonade, Little Dragon, Mr Twin Sister, Neon Indian, Phoenix, Playlist, small black, Tanlines, the tough alliance, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Yumi Zouma
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Warm Visions’ Top 100 Songs of the 2020s So Far
It’s already that time again: below you’ll find my favorite 100 songs of the 2020s so far, ranked in order. It feels bizarre that I’m already dissecting songs from the last five years under the lens of them being the … Continue reading
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Tagged alex g, Amaarae, Anz, Armand Hammer, Best of the 2020s, Big Thief, Billy Woods, Black Country New Road, Blunt Chunks, Bolis Pupul, Braxe + Falcon, Carlita, Caroline, Cassandra Jenkins, CFCF, Chanel Beads, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Charlotte Adigéry, Chat Pile, Chloe x Halle, Chuquimamani-Condori, Cindy Lee, Coco, Cole Pulice, Confidence Man, Courtesy, Cut Worms, Daniel Avery, Dehd, Destroyer, DJ Seinfeld, Doss, Dry Cleaning, Dua Lipa, Elysia Crampton, En Attendant Ana, Erika de Casier, Evan J Cartwright, FACS, Fcukers, Fever Ray, Fontaines D.C., Grouper, Hatchie, hoodie, Indigo De Souza, jack j, James K, Jamie xx, Jayda G, Jazmine Sullivan, Jessica Pratt, Jessie Ware, Jessy Lanza, Joanna Sternberg, Jose Gonzalez, Just Mustard, Kassie Krut, Katy Kirby, Kim Gordon, KOKOROKO, Laura Marling, Little Simz, Lorde, Low, Lunar Vacation, Maple Glider, Marci, Mdou Moctar, Mk.gee, ML Buch, Nation of Language, NewJeans, Nilüfer Yanya, Nu Genea, Palm, Pearl and the Oysters, Perfume Genius, Romy, Sade, Shabason Krgovich Harris, Shannon and the Clams, Soccer Mommy, Sofia Kourtesis, SPELLLING, Thundercat, Tobacco City, tops, Truth Club, Two Shell, Tyla, Waxahatchee, Westerman, Wet, Winged Wheel, Yola, Yves Tumor
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Warm Visions’ Top 100 Albums of the 2020s So Far
Somehow, someway, we’ve reached the midpoint of the 2020s. We’ve all lived through it, so I don’t need to break down what it’s been like. I’ll just say that if this hasn’t been the most turbulent, spiritually damaging stretch of five years … Continue reading
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Tagged a.s.o., Adrianne Lenker, alex g, Alvvays, Amaarae, Ana Roxanne, Andrea, Angel Olsen, Anna Von Hausswolff, Armand Hammer, Ben Seretan, Best of the 2020s, Big Thief, Billy Woods, Black Country New Road, Bolis Pupul, Caroline, Cassandra Jenkins, Charli XCX, Charlotte Adigéry, Chuquimamani-Condori, Cindy Lee, Corridor, Daniel Bachman, Dehd, Deradoorian, Destroyer, Doss, Dry Cleaning, Eartheater, Elysia Crampton, En Attendant Ana, Erika de Casier, Evan J Cartwright, Fever Ray, Floating Points, Fontaines D.C., For Those I Love, Ginger Root, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grouper, Horsegirl, Iglooghost, Indigo Sparke, Jessica Pratt, Jessie Ware, Joanna Sternberg, John Carroll Kirby, Ka, Kassie Krut, Katy Kirby, keiyaa, Kim Gordon, L'Rain, Land Of Talk, Laura Marling, Lip Critic, Low, Lucrecia Dalt, Lunar Vacation, Mali Obomsawin, Malibu, Marci, Mary Lattimore, Mdou Moctar, Meernaa, MJ Lenderman, Mk.gee, ML Buch, Nala Sinephro, Nilüfer Yanya, Nu Genea, Nubya Garcia, Ovlov, Palm, Pearl & The Oysters, Pharoah Sanders, Powers / Pulice / Rolin, Rochelle Jordan, Sea Oleena, Shabason Krgovich Harris, Sofia Kourtesis, SPELLLING, Spirit Of The Beehive, Still House Plants, Sudan Archives, Tess Roby, The London Symphony Orchestra, Tinashe, Tirzah, TootArd, tops, Two Shell, Vanishing Twin, Westerman, Wet, Winged Wheel, Yo La Tengo, You'll Never Get To Heaven, Yves Tumor
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Recommended Albums: May 2025
I’m about to post my Best Albums + Songs of the 2020s so far, so I’m going to keep this brief. May was long as hell, but also feels like it flew by SUPER FAST. Some solid albums! Really damn … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea, Billy Woods, Blondshell, Caroline, Chaos in the CBD, Cole Pulice, Deradoorian, Erika de Casier, Esther Rose, Mei Semones, Men I Trust, recommended albums, Stereolab, Water Damage
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Recommended Albums: March 2025
Another late but better than never installment of Recommended Albums. Thankfully for me, my wedding month was a plump bouquet of fantastic records, ones I anticipate landing high within my year-end favorites in December. Out of everything, the YHWH Nailgun … Continue reading
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Tagged aya, Chuquimamani-Condori, Circuit Des Yeux, Claire Rousay, Cross Record, Destroyer, Franc Moody, Fusilier, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Japanese Breakfast, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Lucy Liyou, Marina Zispin, Men I Trust, More Eaze, recommended albums, Sacred Paws, SPELLLING, Tobacco City, Whatever the Weather, YHWH Nailgun
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Recommended Albums: February 2025
Only a few days under two months late, I’ve got a list of my favorite records of February 2025 below. Truthfully I wasn’t paying too much attention to new music from the month aside from the Horsegirl and Oklou records, … Continue reading
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Tagged Darkside, FACS, Horsegirl, Ichiko Aoba, John Glacier, Kelela, Marie Davidson, Mereba, Oklou, Panda Bear, recommended albums, The Altons, Yo La Tengo
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