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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

It’s funny to consider what Drake will be like when he's 60. 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.