Horoscopes Based on Your Spotify Wrapped Top Artist
Alex G Mellow, melancholy, introspective. You are a big softie with a big heart. You can be eccentric sometimes, even a bit cryptic, but people love you because you are earnest. People joke that you like to be sad, but that’s not quite the truth. You’ve loved and you’ve lost and when you’ve lost you…
A Love Letter to Eternal Dragonz: On Asian Self-Love and the Possibilities of Cyber Community
Somewhere in the darkness, I found heaven. In the middle of a dark club, surrounded by people, I closed my eyes and held a private communion. Everything else fell away. Just the booming sound system and me. An acapella of Taeyang’s “Wedding Dress” floated above an instrumental loop of 4 Strings’ “Take Me Away (Into…
On Remembering: Or, Liner Notes for 3 Objects of Emotional Significance
I. The frying pan’s too wide At first glance, the indigo cover simply says “Joni Mitchell.” The title of the album, Blue, nearly the same shade as the cover, blends in. When the light catches on the glossy cardboard just right, the title disappears completely. Joni’s face, too, is only partially visible. Dark shadows cast…
Questions I Never Asked, Answers You Never Gave
Exposition When Ryuichi Sakamoto released async in 2017, it was his first full-length solo album in eight years. He also believed it would be his last. In the summer of 2014, Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer. After years of struggling to produce solo work, he had finally begun writing a new album that year.…
On Slowness: Or, Love Is Forever Even If It Ends
“I was only dreaming.” Her voice, her laugh, the summer twilight breaking through redwoods. “A familiar gesture / misplaced in time.” To remember these things so vividly. “I was only dreaming / of something I left behind.” To work through grief, slowly, slowly. To take a deep breath and pause. I wasn’t seeking a spiritual…
Too Black, Too Strong: Music for the Movement
It begins with a jolt. Pauline Henry belts a long, jubilant cry. Then the shuffle of snare breaks over rave chord stabs come in and AceMo’s euphoric remix of The Chimes 1990 hit “Heaven” is off and running at full speed. Haus of Altr’s 10th release begins with a flurry, an offering of Black joy.…
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