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Listen: The Radio Dept. – “Keen On Boys” [2003]

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Very Warm

Posting a little shoegaze for myself, as a treat.

Posted in Listen, Music | Tagged 2003, dreampop, Listen, shoegaze, The Radio Dept. | Leave a comment

2021 Retrospective – 100 Discoveries, Obsessions and Moments + Listening Stats

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Very Warm

Since 2014, I’ve tried to keep track of songs that have impacted or defined my year (see all those posts tagged in the “Retrospective” section). The songs that I pull into this playlist are usually favorite discoveries of mine that blow my mind (and embarrass me occasionally, as in “why didn’t I listen to this sooner?” Lots of that in this post here), obsessions that I sink into like quicksand (usually new songs that come out that year) or more rarely, soundtracks to true moments that I’ll forever associate with said song. Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged alexalone, Art Blakey, Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Epoch, Ben Seretan, Bernice, Best of 2021, Black Country New Road, Blue Hawaii, Bright Eyes, Brijean, Broken Social Scene, Camera Obscura, Caroline Rose, Cassandra Jenkins, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, Dawn Richard, Dead Can Dance, Doss, Dry Cleaning, Dummy, Enya, Erika de Casier, Floating Points, For Those I Love, Gilligan Moss, Gloria Ann Taylor, Grouper, Hildegard, Hiroki Kikuta, hiroshi sato, Horsegirl, Indigo De Souza, Innovations, Insides, Izzy Johnson, Jazmine Sullivan, Jessica Pratt, Jessy Lanza, Jimmy Edgar, Joe Henderson, John Carroll Kirby, John Coltrane, Junko Yagami, Katy Kirby, L'Rain, Laura Marling, Laurie Anderson, Leonard Cohen, Lightning Bug, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Mary Lattimore, Mdou Moctar, Minus the Bear, Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, Moonshine, Mountain Man, Mr. Twin Sister, Neil Young, Nico, Nora Guthrie, Open Sky Unit, Ovlov, Panda Bear, PDP III, Pharoah Sanders, Phillip Fullwood, Portishead, Prefab Sprout, Rebbie Jackson, retrospective, Richard Hawley, Rochelle Jordan, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sam Evian, Sam Prekop, Shannon and the Clams, Shygirl, Slowdive, Sophie, SPELLLING, Spirit Of The Beehive, Steely Dan, Suzanne Ciani, Tatsuro Yamashita, Ted Lucas, The Blue Nile, The Cleaners From Venus, The Cure, The Knife, The Radio Dept., The Rah Band, The Velvet Underground, tops, Tradition, Wet, Wye Oak, Yasmin Williams, yes/and, Yo La Tengo, Yola | Leave a comment

2010s Retrospective: 10 Years of Discoveries, Obsessions and True Moments

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Very Warm

Well folks, welcome to my most indulgent, most confessional, most self-referential and truly most vain post on the blog. This is probably playing it up, but I’ve written a lot about myself on here. The dang header image is literally … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Playlist | Tagged 100 gecs, 2814, A$AP ROCKY, Alan Lomax, aldous harding, Alvvays, Alyus, Amen Dunes, Anamanaguchi, Andy Shauf, Angel Olsen, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Arca, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Arthur Russell, Arthur Verocai, Ata Kak, Ava Luna, Azealia Banks, Babes, Badge Époque Ensemble, Baroness, Battles, Beach Fossils, Beach House, Beck, Bernice, Best Coast, Best of the 2010s, best of the decade, Beyonce, Big Boi, Big Star, Big Thief, Björk, Blank Banshee, Blue Sky Black Death, Boa, Boards of Canada, Boat Club, Bodywash, Boris, Bowery Electric, Boy Harsher, brian eno, Broadcast, Brutus, Buck 65, Built To Spill, Burial, Camera Obscura, carly rae jepsen, Caroline Rose, Cassiano, Cat Power, CHAI, Chance The Rapper, Charli XCX, Chastity Belt, Chelsea Wolfe, Chick Corea, chino amobi, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Chromatics, Circuit Des Yeux, Clams Casino, cloud nothings, Cocteau Twins, Cole M.G.N., Colin Stetson, Colleen, Connan Mockasin, Craft Spells, Crying, Cults, Cut Copy, D'Angelo, D.R.A.M., Daft Punk, Daniel Bachman, Das Racist, Daughters, David Bowie, Dawn Richard, Deafheaven, Dean Blunt, death grips, Deerhunter, Delorean, Denzel Curry, Destroyer, DIIV, dirty beaches, Disclosure, Discovery, DJ Koze, DJ Rashad, DJ Shadow, Djeli Moussa Diawara, Dntel, Domenique Dumont, Donnie & Joe Emerson, Dusk, Earl Sweatshirt, ECO VIRTUAL, Eddie Kendricks, El Guincho, El Polen, Elite Gymnastics, Eluvium, Empress Of, Erika de Casier, Eskimeaux, Everything But The Girl, FaltyDL, Fang Island, Fatboy Slim, Father John Misty, Fear Of Men, Felt, Fetty Wap, Fever Ray, Fiona Apple, FKA Twigs, Fleet Foxes, Ford & Lopatin, Four Tet, Frank Ocean, Frankie Cosmos, Friendly Fires, Fucked Up, Future, Future Islands, G Flip, gang gang dance, Gauntlet Hair, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Gillian Welch, Givers, Glasser, Gobble Gobble, Gorillaz, Grave Babies, Grimes, Grouper, Guided By Voices, Hailu Mergia, Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Hand Habits, Have A 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Lone, Lonnie Holley, LVL UP, m83, mac demarco, Madvillain, Majical Cloudz, Major Lazer, Malcolm McLaren, Mariya Takeuchi, Marvin Gaye, Masayoshi Takanaka, Massive Attack, Megan Thee Stallion, Melody's Echo Chamber, Merchandise, MGMT, MIA, Mica Levi, Midlake, migos, Miharu Koshi, Mission Of Burma, Mister Lies, Mitski, Momoko Kikuchi, Moons, Mount Eerie, Mountain Man, Mr. Twin Sister, Mulatu Astatke, Mustafa Ozkent Orchestre, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Nami Shimada, natalia lafourcade, Neil Young, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Indian, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nicolas Jaar, Nosaj Thing, Oneohtrix Point Never, Opaline, Ovlov, Owen Pallett, Parquet Courts, Peggy Gou, perfect pussy, PJ Harvey, Playboi Carti, Playlist, Porches, Portishead, Prefab Sprout, Prince, Pure X, Purity Ring, Quality Cinema, quirke, Radiator Hospital, Rae Sremmurd, Real Estate, Red House Painters, Resavoir, retrospective, Ricky Eat Acid, Rico Nasty, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ryan Hemsworth, Sacred Paws, Saintseneca, Sam Evian, Sarah Neufeld, Sassy 009, Schoolboy Q, scntfc, Seoul, Sergei Rachmaninoff, shabazz palaces, Shlohmo, Sicko Mobb, Silver Jews, Simian Mobile Disco, Skee Mask, Slayyyter, Sleigh Bells, Slint, Slow Warm Death, Slowdive, Smerz, Smith Westerns, Sonic Youth, Sophie, St. Vincent, Stereolab, Submerse, sufjan stevens, Sun Araw, Sun Kil Moon, Swearin, Sweet Valley, Sylvan Esso, Takao, Tame Impala, Tennis, The Avalanches, The Beach Boys, The Beths, The Blow, The Blue Nile, The Books, the caretaker, The Field, The Flamingos, The Futureheads, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, The Joy Formidable, The Knife, The Mighty Hannibal, The Music Tapes, The Pillows, The Radio Dept., The Range, The Replacements, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Strokes, The Sundays, The Supreme Jubilees, The Thermals, The Weeknd, Tim Hecker, Tim Maia, Tirzah, TNGHT, Tobacco, Todd Terje, tops, Toro Y Moi, TR/ST, Trailer Trash Tracys, Tune-Yards, Ty Segall, U.S. Girls, Ultrademon, United Sacred Harp Musical Association, Vampire Weekend, Vanessa De Mata, Vanishing Twin, Vince Staples, Vumani, Washed Out, Wave Racer, Wavves, Waxahatchee, Wednesday Campanella, Weed, Weyes Blood, Whitney, Wild Beasts, Wild Nothing, Women, Wu Fei, Xiu Xiu, Y La Bamba, Yeasayer, Yo La Tengo, Young Galaxy, Young Thug, Yuck, Yves Tumor, Zola Jesus, Zoo Kid | Leave a comment

2013 Retrospective

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Very Warm

After many, many months, I’ve finally wrapped up my Retrospective series for the 2010s. By Retrospective, I mean collecting 100 songs that essential were the soundtrack to the year as it happened to me. Songs that I listen to and … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Anamanaguchi, Aphex Twin, Arca, Asobi Seksu, Aye Nako, Beach Fossils, Beck, Best of 2013, Bibio, Blank Banshee, Blood Orange, Boards of Canada, Buke & Gase, Burial, Chelsea Wolfe, Clams Casino, Clipping, Courtney Barnett, Crying, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Deafheaven, Dean Blunt, death grips, Deerhunter, Diarrhea Planet, Disclosure, Dive, DJ Rashad, ECO VIRTUAL, FaltyDL, Fear Of Men, FKA Twigs, Fuji Grid TV, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Grave Babies, Grouper, HEALTH, Hop Along, Iceage, Infinity Shred, J Dilla, Jai Paul, James Blake, Jay Reatard, Joanna Newsom, Jon Hopkins, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Jurgen Muller, Kanye West, Kelela, Kirin J Callinan, Kurt Vile, Laura Cortese, Laurel Halo, M.I.A., Machinedrum, Merchandise, Mikal Cronin, Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Oneohtrix Point Never, Onra, Ovlov, Pity Sex, Postiljonen, Quality Cinema, retrospective, Shlohmo, Slow Warm Death, Sophie, Still Corners, Sun Araw, Swearin, Sweet Valley, T. Rex, The Angelic Process, The Knife, The Mighty Hannibal, The Music Tapes, The Radio Dept., The Range, The Underachievers, Tim Hecker, Tirzah, Tobacco, Todd Terje, Vampire Weekend, Van Morrison, Waxahatchee, William Basinski, Young Fathers, Young Galaxy | Leave a comment

2010 Retrospective

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Very Warm

If you’re familiar with this blog, you’ll know (or recollect) that starting in 2014, I’ve posted “Retrospectives” at the end of every year wrapping up all the music that made the year memorable or special in chronological order. Knowing me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Arcade Fire, Beach House, Best Coast, best of 2010, Big Boi, Buck 65, Burial, Camera Obscura, Can, cloud nothings, Crooked Still, Crystal Castles, CSS, Cults, Das Racist, Deerhunter, Delorean, Depeche Mode, Destroyer, Die Antwoord, DJ Shadow, El Guincho, Elliott Smith, Fang Island, Fatboy Slim, Fever Ray, Fiona Apple, Flying Lotus, Friendly Fires, girls, Givers, Glasser, Gobble Gobble, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Goldfish, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic, hot chip, How to Dress Well, Jackson 5, James Blake, Janelle Monae, Joanna Newsom, Kanye West, keepaway, Kid Cudi, LCD Soundsystem, Lemonade, Local Natives, M.I.A., m83, Madvillain, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Neon Indian, New Order, Owen Pallett, Pavement, retrospective, Rostam, Salem, serengeti, She & Him, Sleigh Bells, Smith Westerns, Smog, Sonic Youth, Spoon, sufjan stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Talking Heads, Tame Impala, Tanlines, The Avalanches, The Black Keys, The Futureheads, The Good The Bad and the Queen, The Knife, The Morning Benders, The Radio Dept., The Strokes, The Thermals, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tobacco, Vampire Weekend, Wavves, Weezer, Wild Nothing, Women, Xiu Xiu, Yeasyer | 1 Comment

The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Very Warm

It’s been a minute, but I’m back with more Best of the Decade content. This time it’s breaking down my 200 favorite songs of the decade, which was obviously no easy task. In my opinion, picking 200 albums was so … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged 2814, A$AP ROCKY, alex g, Alvvays, Amber Coffman, Amen Dunes, Angel Olsen, Anohni, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink, Ava Luna, Aye Nako, Azealia Banks, Beach House, Beck, Best Coast, Best of the 2010s, best of the decade, Beyonce, Big Thief, Björk, Blanck Mass, boygenius, Brutus, Burial, carly rae jepsen, CCFX, CFCF, chairlift, Charli XCX, Chastity Belt, Chelsea Wolfe, chino amobi, Circuit Des Yeux, Clams Casino, cloud nothings, Cults, danny l harle, Daughters, Deafheaven, Dean Blunt, Deerhunter, Delorean, Destroyer, DIIV, Dntel, Dusk, El Guincho, Elite Gymnastics, Empress Of, Erika de Casier, Fear Of Men, Fiona Apple, FKA Twigs, Fleet Foxes, Florence and the Machine, Flying Lotus, Ford & Lopatin, Frank Ocean, Frankie Cosmos, Friendly Fires, Fucked Up, Future Islands, gang gang dance, Gorillaz, Grimes, Grouper, Hand Habits, Holly Herndon, Hop Along, How to Dress Well, Hundred Waters, Jai Paul, Jamie xx, Janelle Monae, Japanese Breakfast, Jenny Hval, Jessica Pratt, Jessy Lanza, Joanna Newsom, John Maus, Julia Holter, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Kate NV, Kelela, Kendrick Lamar, Kero Kero Bonito, King Krule, Kisses, Krill, Lana Del Rey, Laurel Halo, LCD Soundsystem, Lemonade, Let's Eat Grandma, Little Dragon, Lonnie Holley, m83, mac demarco, Majical Cloudz, Major Lazer, Merchandise, Mica Levi, Mister Lies, Mitski, Mr. Twin Sister, My Bloody Valentine, natalia lafourcade, Natalie Prass, Neon Indian, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nicolas Jaar, Nilüfer Yanya, Omni, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ovlov, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Playboi Carti, Purity Ring, quirke, Radiator Hospital, Ratking, Real Estate, Real Lies, Rosalía, Saintseneca, SANDY Alex G, Sassy 009, shabazz palaces, Sky Ferreira, Smerz, Smith Westerns, Solange, Sophie, St. Vincent, sufjan stevens, Tame Impala, The Avalanches, The Beths, The Joy Formidable, The Knife, The Radio Dept., The Weeknd, Tirzah, Todd Terje, tops, TR/ST, Twin Shadow, Tycho, U.S. Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vampire Weekend, Vince Staples, Washed Out, Weed, Weyes Blood, White Denim, Whitney, Wildhoney, Women, Wye Oak, yaeji, Yeasyer, Yo La Tengo, Young Galaxy, Yuck, Yves Tumor, Zola Jesus | Leave a comment

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Very Warm

To celebrate 10 years of Warm Visions / Combo Breaker Kid, I’ve compiled my 200 favorite albums of the 2010s. Not only that, but I’ve concocted “Warm Visions” descriptions and wrote blurbs about each record. I’m sure you can infer … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged 2814, aldous harding, Alvvays, Amen Dunes, Andy Shauf, Angel Olsen, Arca, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink, Beach Fossils, Beach House, Best of the 2010s, best of the decade, Big Thief, bill callahan, Björk, Braids, Burial, carly rae jepsen, Charli XCX, Chastity Belt, chino amobi, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Christine And The Queens, Chromatics, cloud nothings, Colin Stetson, Cross Record, D'Angelo, danny brown, Daughters, David Bowie, Deafheaven, Dean Blunt, death grips, Deerhunter, demen, Destroyer, dirty beaches, Dirty Projectors, Disclosure, DJ Koze, Dntel, Dusk, Earl Sweatshirt, Elite Gymnastics, Emeralds, Empress Of, Erika de Casier, Father John Misty, Fear Of Men, Fever Ray, Fiona Apple, FKA Twigs, Fleet Foxes, Floating Points, Flying Lotus, Ford and Lopatin, Frank Ocean, Future Islands, Gorillaz, Grave Babies, Grimes, Grouper, Hand Habits, Holly Herndon, Hop Along, Hundred Waters, Jai Paul, James Blake, Jamie xx, Janelle Monae, Jenny Hval, Jessica Pratt, Jessy Lanza, Joanna Newsom, John Maus, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Kacey Musgraves, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kali Uchis, Kamasi Washington, Kanye West, Kaytranada, Kelela, Kelly Lee Owens, Kelly Moran, Kendrick Lamar, Kllo, Krallice, Krill, Laurel Halo, LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz, mac demarco, Macintosh Plus, Majical Cloudz, Merchandise, Mitski, Mono No Aware, Mount Eerie, Mr. Twin Sister, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ovlov, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Perfume Genius, Preoccupations, Purple Mountains, Real Estate, Roman A Clef, Royal Headache, Saintseneca, sam amidon, Sampha, SANDY Alex G, Sarah Neufeld, Sassy 009, shabazz palaces, Sharon Van Etten, Skee Mask, Smerz, Sophie, St. Vincent, sufjan stevens, Sun Araw, Swearin, SZA, Takao, Tame Impala, The Avalanches, The Babies, The Beths, The Books, the caretaker, The Radio Dept., The Weeknd, Tim Hecker, Tirzah, Todd Terje, tops, TR/ST, Ty Segall, Ty Segall Band, U.S. Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vampire Weekend, Vince Staples, Waxahatchee, Wednesday Campanella, Weyes Blood, White Denim, White Lung, Whitney, Women, Yo La Tengo, Yves Tumor, Zola Jesus | Leave a comment

Best Of 2018 :: Live Experiences

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Very Warm

Over the past two years, I’ve made the arbitrary decision to rank the live shows I attended that year. It’s worked decently well, since I have gone to some shows in the past that just knocked my socks clean off … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Alvvays, Amen Dunes, Ava Luna, Bambara, Best of 2018, Bombino, carly rae jepsen, Caroline Rose, Cigarettes After Sex, Destroyer, Fever Ray, Four Tet, G Flip, Grouper, Hand Habits, Hatchie, Hop Along, I'm With Her, IDLES, Jamila Woods, Kevin Morby, L'Rain, Leon Vynehall, Live Review, Louis Cole, Mitski, Mountain Man, Mr. Twin Sister, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Oneohtrix Point Never, Phoebe Bridgers, Saintseneca, serpentwithfeet, Snail Mail, The Radio Dept., U.S. Girls, Waxahatchee, Yo La Tengo, Young Galaxy | Leave a comment

Playlist – Beach Ball Hell

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Very Warm

Nice weather is finally upon us in 2018, so I thought I’d celebrate the occasion by starting off what will hopefully be a consistent stream of playlists, curated by yours truly. I’ve got a few works in progress right now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Air France, Anemone, Antena, Beat Connection, Blackbird Blackbird, Boat Club, brothertiger, Casa Del Mirto, CEO, Chad Valley, chillwave, Clive Tanaka, Cole M.G.N., Craft Spells, Delorean, Domenique Dumont, El Guincho, Ford & Lopatin, javelin, JJ, keepaway, Kisses, Korallreven, Lemonade, Memory Cassette, Men I Trust, Moss Of Aura, Mr. Twin Sister, Neon Indian, Playlist, Selebrities, small black, Southern Shores, Taken By Trees, Tanlines, Teen Daze, The Radio Dept., the tough alliance, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, White Hinterland | 1 Comment

Recommended Albums: October 2016

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Very Warm

The second-to-last Recommended Albums post for 2016 and it’s a dud. Music wise, it’s good as always. I just had nothing interesting to say about them. Now that I’m thinking about it, have I ever had anything interesting to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged American Football, best of 2016, Black Marble, Blank Banshee, Cakes Da Killa, Crying, D.D Dumbo, Gurr, Helado Negro, Hiss Golden Messenger, Katie Gately, Kero Kero Bonito, Marie Davidson, NxWorries, recommended albums, Ricky Eat Acid, Sam Evian, Soft Hair, Steve Hauschildt, The Radio Dept., Vulfpeck, Weyes Blood | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: The Radio Dept.

Listen: The Radio Dept. – “Keen On Boys” [2003]

2013 Retrospective

Best Of 2018 :: Live Experiences

Playlist – Beach Ball Hell

Recommended Albums: October 2016

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