MP3 blog 2024/04/14 - Daphne Music vol 41+42+43

https://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20240414-daphne041.zip
01 Hannah Diamond - Impossible
02 Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova
03 Tegan and Sara - Arrow
04 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Stupid With Love
05 Cavetown - obvious
06 TALK - Run Away to Mars
07 Kacy Hill - Porsche
08 Tokyo Machine - Last Summer
09 DJ Khaled - I Believe ft Demi Lovato
10 Justin Bieber + BloodPop® - Friends
11 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Not My Fault
12 Shakira - Hips Don't Lie ft Wyclef Jean
13 mxmtoon - cliché (revisited)
14 Orla Gartland - You're Not Special, Babe
15 tick, tick... BOOM OST - Therapy
16 Mean Girls (2024) OST - I'd Rather Be Me
17 Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep
18 Ethel Cain - Sunday Morning
19 Cavetown - Fall In Love With A Girl ft Orla Gartland
20 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
21 The Beaches - Edge of the Earth
22 Tegan and Sara - Hell
23 Hannah Diamond - Poster Girl

24 Weezer - Feels Like Summer

https://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20240414-daphne042.zip
01 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Meet the Plastics
02 Orla Gartland - More Like You
03 Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em
04 Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
05 Tegan and Sara - Living Room
06 The Lightning Thief OST - My Grand Plan
07 tick, tick... BOOM OST - Come to Your Senses
08 beabadoobee - Glue Song
09 Hey Rosetta! - There's An Arc
10 Boygenius - Not Strong Enough
11 Mean Girls (2024) OST - What's Wrong With Me
12 Sufjan Stevens - So You Are Tired
13 Cavetown - let them know they're on your mind
14 Porter Robinson - Cheerleader
15 Hannah Diamond - No FX
16 Chappell Roan - Casual
17 Mean Girls (2024) OST - World Burn
18 Zara Larsson - Look What You've Done
19 Tegan and Sara - Back In Your Head
20 Clean Bandit - Mama ft Ellie Goulding
21 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Apex Predator
22 Hannah Diamond - Twisted
23 Why Don't We - Just Friends
24 Lukas Graham - 7 Years

https://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20240414-daphne043.zip
01 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club
02 Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture
03 Mean Girls (2024) OST - What Ifs
04 Tegan and Sara - Time Running
05 mxmtoon - mona lisa
06 The Beaches - Blame Brett
07 tick, tick... BOOM OST - 30_90
08 Bruno Mars - Count On Me
09 Tegan and Sara - City Girl
10 Hannah Diamond - Unbreakable
11 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Revenge Party
12 Charlotte Cardin - Confetti
13 ZEDD & Katy Perry - 365
14 Holiday Sidewinder - Escape & Retreat
15 Meghan Trainor - I'm a Lady
16 Imagine Dragons - Thunder
17 Hannah Diamond - Lip Sync
18 Mean Girls (2024) OST - Someone Gets Hurt
19 Tegan and Sara - Underwater
20 TALK - A Little Bit Happy
21 Cavetown - Fall In Love With A Girl ft Beabadoobee
22 Ed Sheeran - Photograph
23 Orla Gartland - More Like You (acoustic)
24 tick, tick... BOOM OST - Louder Than Words

MP3 blog 2024/03/12

https://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20240312.zip
All Hands Make Light - Waiting For The Light To Quit
American Football - Uncomfortably Numb ft Hayley Williams
Angel Electronics - RETURN TO THE SKY
Biosphere - Muses-C
Bjork - Hyper-ballad (Brodski Quartet Version)
Bjork - Venus As A Boy (Harpsicord)
Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - Reilly
Emily Reo & Yohuna - Teach You
Fire-Toolz - mailtospasm@swamp.godsubject=Mind-Body Parallels (Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 Remix)
glaive & ericdoa - heather
Lunice - Red Congo
midwxst - Smile ft glaive
Nevermen - Treat Em Right (Boards of Canada cover Instrumental Remix)
osquinn - coping mechanism (mudmix)
Roomful of Teeth - Allemande
Roomful of Teeth - Ansa Ya
Roomful of Teeth - Courante
sakuraburst - Bespoken Islands ft Leopold & Slyleaf
Spirit Fest - Zenbu Honto (Every Thing Is Everything)
Towa Tei - Latte & Macaron (Funkstörung remix)
Underscores - Locals (Girls like us) ft gabby start

MP3 blog 2024/02/27

https://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20240227.zip
Ada Rook - im cis
Ada Rook - PURGATOR3Y MODULATION ENGINE ft Sunrise Transparence
Ada Rook - UNDERNEATH IT ALL ft ASH NERVE
Backxwash - 666 IN LUXAXA
Backxwash - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES ft Ada Rook
Big Freedia - Pipe That ft Icona Pop & The Soul Rebels
Carly Rae Jepsen - Anything to Be With You
Christian Löffler - Fate
Ecila - Beyond The Echoes
Le Ren - Dyan
Madvillain - America’s Most Blunted ft Lord Quas
Maya Jane Coles - Night Creature
Melt-Banana - 2 Knees
Melt-Banana - Dog In Lost
Melt-Banana - Quite Free
Negativland - Anything Else
Negativland - Content
Negativland - Create the Visitor
Negativland - Don't Don't Get Freaked Out
Philip Glass performed by Kronos Quartet - Kyoko's House (Mishima OST)
Philip Glass performed by Kronos Quartet - November 25 Morning (Mishima OST)
pigeon pit - clawfoot
pigeon pit - soup for my family
Takuma Watanabe - Recoverd
The Regrettes - A Teenager In Love (Dion and the Belmonts cover)
WHOKILLEDXIX - Kismet
µ-Ziq - Hello
µ-Ziq - Modulating Angels
µ-Ziq - Ávila

Favourite albums of 2023

While most places rush to post their Best Of lists as close to December 1st as possible, I like taking the holidays catch up on things I might have missed and enjoy releasing a better list in the back-half of January.

Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

Two Shell - lil spirits

100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

boygenius - the record

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You

Liturgy - 93696

The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes

Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way

Rae Spoon - Not Dead Yet

ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions

Chad Void - Shotgun

Lankum - False Lankum

Overmono - Good Lies

Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté - The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere

Michael Scott Dawson - Find Yourself Lost

Lunice - OPEN

Poolblood - mole

Mark Molnar - Divine Horseman

Bat Boy - Fun Machine

Colin Stetson - When We Were That What Wept for the Sea

Sigur Rós - ÁTTA

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

Mick Harris - Culvert Dubs Session One

Model／Actriz - Dogsbody

Sore Dream & Hisham Akira Bharoocha - Sore Dream & Hisham Akira Bharoocha

amaarae - Fountain Baby

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture

Pas Tasta - Good Pop

Jeremy Dutcher - Motewolonuwok

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

Space Camp - Gold Star

The Buttress - Endofunctor

Hania Rani - On Giacometti

Oren Ambarchi - Double Consciousness

Tram Komputer - Trampoly

This might be the last year I have the time to follow music so closely.  I've been looking at my "best of" lists as a way to summarize a year, and in many ways these lists become a time capsule.  A lot of music comes out in any one year and there's always more to discover, so these might be the 40 that are sifted out and carried forward with enthusiasm and emotion.

I listen to albums primarily, but I do let myself delete one or two tracks on an album if they annoy me.  Some albums above are on my list with the consideration of a track or two deleted, and I encourage the same.  Curate your own space.