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Gnarly

Gnarly - Single · 2024

Won’t hit your phone
I’m on DND
I’m plotting

Towa Tei, Kylie Minogue & Haruomi Hosono

GBI (GERMAN BOLD ITALIC)

SOUND MUSEUM · 1997

not a lot of songs from the POV of a typeface

Headache & Vegyn

Dodge This!

Thank You for Almost Everything · 2025

Neither the past, the present, or future matter to me.
What matters to me is love, art, and money.

is headache’s prose a little on the nose? yes. the 16-bit, crunched synth line at around 1:22 more than makes up for it. this song propels itself forward like a bullet train, intensity that goes in a smooth straight line

The Sons of Silence

A Grain of Sand

Spring Forward: Fall Back · 1997

i first found this song in Susumu Yokota’s excellent Leaf Compilation and it has always struck me as a song that would be great to sweep your floor to

CFCF

Love Hotel

L.U.V. · 2026

Drake

Road Trips

MAID OF HONOUR · 2026

I wonder if Drake will ever change. I assume he won’t; the shallowness is the appeal. It’s funny to consider what Drake will 60 be like. He has to retire from music for his own sake. He can’t keep writing lyrics like:

I didn’t say that you’re the most selfish person alive
I just said you better hope she doesn’t die

Musically, I am am obsessed with what he’s doing here. Masterful sample usage and the core synth loop makes me bounce.