All the Music I Didn’t Get to Write About This Year (Until Now)

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I am the friend in the group chat whos up at 2:30 a.m. getting cosmic.

Heres a loose addendum to that.

.Albums that hooked me but didnt make myBest Of

(See also: GodfleshsPurge.)

Its a buffet of genius-level session performances just waiting for the right sample whiz to get to work.

Its an unenviable task, though, filling the shoes of players like Omar Hakim and John JR Robinson.

Rushmore shoe-ins revisits the sometimes strange circumstances behind the album covers of consequential 70s releases.

For example, I did not know Paul McCartney had a statue flown to the top of Mt.

We live in an era of pop-star deification, when fans pore over looks and photo shoots.

Old habits always find new clothes.)

Why would I miss you when you was the issue?

is what the city is really like is pure, unvarnished uptown.

Shouts out Melvin and Mario Van Peebles.

SZAs Conceited is a flawless, powerful pregaming anthem.

PinkPantheress and Kelelas Bury Me is satin-soft drill.

Danny Browns Jenns Terrific Vacation paints a visceral picture of a neighborhood going to shit via gentrification.

It remains hilarious to me that Sampha didnt realize Only was the single when he wrote it.

Kankeletigui, by Djeneba Seck.

I mostly use Shazam to ID dembow tracks I hear in NYC throughout the year.

I could never live somewhere with no incidental dembow.

Each time my eye lingers a little too long over an Elektron Octatrack its his fault.

It turned into a massive learning commitment, but Im having fun.

But every week I now regret the lapse in practice and theory that made me forget my band-geek foundations.

The Mac MillerSwimminggradienthoodiegoes hard.

Life really forks off sometimes.

Any Andre 3000 profile.

Notice me,senpai!