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March 21

Week 306: “Words” by Gregory Alan Isakov

A few months ago, I mentioned that although I didn’t have a list of top-ten…

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January 18

Week 297: “Halving the Compass” by Helios

There was a really grumpy science teacher at my high school who liked to use…

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November 9

Week 287: “The Shining” by Badly Drawn Boy

In the early 2000s, author Nick Hornby was on a roll. His unique brand of…

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September 14

Week 279: “Dawn’s Song” by Michael Kaeshammer

Small concerts are the best. There’s nothing wrong with super-sized, stadium-filling mega-shows, but sometimes music…

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June 22

Week 267: “I Bloom Blaum” by Coldplay

The term “b-side,” doesn’t even really mean anything anymore; it’s a linguistic relic of an…

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June 1

Week 264: “World On Fire” by Jed & Lucia

The way people consume music has changed a lot over the past few decades. That’s…

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March 2

Week 251: “Sunshine” by Josh Rouse

March is one of the best months. It gets a bad reputation because of the…

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February 16

Week 249: “Circle None” by Mice Parade

I am not ashamed to admit that I have a moderate-to-strong obsession with anagrams. Anagrams…

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January 5

Week 243: “re: stacks” by Bon Iver

I used to think falsetto was for chumps. This might be because the first time…

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December 29

Week 242: “Valediction” by Showroom

As the sun sets on another year, I’m reminded that I have no idea how…

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December 15

Week 240: “Blafeldur” by amiina

Picking out a winter coat is a tricky business. It’s tricky because you can’t test…

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September 15

Week 227: “Passage” by Knowledge Of Bugs

Like many people, I spent a lot of time killing bugs as a kid. The…

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September 8

Week 226: “Waltz #1” by Elliott Smith (Christopher O’Riley cover)

I’m usually a bit wary of tribute albums. Tribute albums are the musical equivalent of…

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June 9

Week 213: “Driftwood” by Menahan Street Band

Most of the Menahan Street Band’s music, like most of the music produced by their…

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May 12

Week 209: “Sex Slave Ship” by Flying Lotus

When you’re up late working on something – a creative project of some kind, usually…

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March 10

Week 200: “Beyond This Moment” by Patrick O’Hearn

I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to think of something special to write about…

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January 20

Week 193: “Song 2” by DJ Krush

Have you ever found yourself staring at a particular word over and over again, re-reading…

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January 6

Week 191: “To Build a Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra

My parents were never keen on spending a whole lot of money on fancy toys.…

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December 2

Week 186: “Unspoken” by A.M. Architect

The last time I wrote about a song called “Unspoken”, it was Four Tet’s epic, organic,…

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November 4

Week 182: “November” by Max Richter

November can be a pretty drab month. By the end of the first week, your…

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