This year I'd like to listen to music more consciously, so I've been trying to listen to albums in full as the artists intended.

march 2025

Feeding Seahorses By Hand [Billie Marten, 2019]

favourite tracks:

1. mice
2. blood is blue
3. toulouse
4. bad apple

notes:

oough i love this album!!!

february 2025

Illinois [Sufjan Stevens, 2005]

favourite tracks:

1. chicago
2. casimir pulaski day
3. concerning the ufo sighting near highland
4. the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!

mood:

soft, hopeful, sad, nostalgic

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care [Explosions in the Sky, 2011]

favourite tracks:

1. human qualities
2. be comfortable, creature
3. postcard from 1952
4. last known surroundings

mood:

post-apocalyptic, hopeful, anxious

january 2025

Infinity on High [Fall Out Boy, 2007]

favourite tracks:

1. hum hallelujah
2. "the take over, the break's over"
3. i'm like a lawyer…
4. don't you know who i think i am

mood:

understimulated, jittery night working, looking at the stars on a clear night

I Saw the TV Glow OST [2024]

favourite tracks:

1. starburned and unkissed [caroline polachek]
2. psychic wound [king woman]
3. anthems for a seventeen-year old girl [yeule]
4. claw machine [sloppy jane ft. phoebe bridgers]

mood:

tv static, alienation, nostalgic

Imaginal Disk [Magdalena Bay, 2024]

favourite tracks:

1. vampire in the corner
2. death & romance
3. image
4. watching t.v.

mood:

dreamy afternoon, eating ice cream, feeling like a robot

favourite soundtracks

Music from Twin Peaks [Angelo Badalamenti, 1990]

favourite tracks:

1. twin peaks theme
2. dance of the dream man
3. laura palmer's theme
4. the bookhouse boys

Arrival [Jóhann Jóhannsson, 2016]

favourite tracks:

1. heptapod b
2. first encounter
3. on the nature of daylight [max richter]
4. kangaru

Where the wild things are [Karen O And The Kids, 2009]

favourite tracks:

1. hideaway
2. igloo
3. all is love
4. worried shoes

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. [Daniel Pemberton, 2015]

favourite tracks:

1. circular story
2. take you down
3. cry to me [solomon burke]
4. his name is napoleon solo

notes:

this is not the actual album cover bc i don't like the original one :/

my cassette collection

Look, I know that cassette tape quality is not the best but consider this: they look cute and!! casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing.