pop

2022 week 18 | tilt by confidence man

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This week’s pick is courtesy of Mitch, and we couldn’t be more thankful to have this album come across our desks. It’s fun and weird and makes me feel like it’s the late 90s and Parker Posey started a weird dance-pop band that doesn’t give a flying fuck and wants you to wipe that face off your head, bitch! I’m obsessed, I’m delighted, I’m so mad I’m an angry girl, so what’s your problem?? It’s too good, it’s giving me life in this heinous world, in this endless winter, in this purgatorial time where I’m just waiting for our Portland life to end and we can just move back to Nebraska already. Love it, love you.

2022 week 8 | aja by steely dan

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this week we are going pure, unadulterated 70s jazz-pop nostalgia with steely dan’s Aja, a cassette tape that lived and died in my dad’s white 90’s toyota forerunner, and then heavily rotated in our living room 6-cd changer upon the changing tech. As someone born in 1992, I can’t say if this album is or was underappreciated. Pitchfork gave it a posthumous 10/10 review in 2019 and I’m not here to argue. It feels like anyone I talk to about it over the age of 40 (1) is surprised I’m familiar with it and (2) loves it or tells me their favorite steely dan album is actually Gaucho. Fair enough. I know several huge steely dan fans my own age (who are actually going to see them on tour this May) and I’m here for it! This album fucking rules and I know it backwards and forwards already, but man I needed this week.

2021 week 1 | future nostalgia by dua lipa

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alright, y’all! kicking off 2021 (jesus fucking christ - we made it, i guess?) with some late-to-the-party honestly-thought-it-was-too-cool-for-me millenial pop realness here. i didn’t know i knew so many of these songs until i started this week, but apparently, my pop-cultural sphere has been bumping up against dua and this album all along, i’m just finally getting around to giving it the time and praise it deserves. before this, my best point of reference for dua lipa was her appearance on SNL in december, and those precious bois on las culturistas bringing this internet gem to my attention (wendy williams is truly the gift that keeps on giving). i loved this album and it will be in the absolute rotaish from here on out!