the tunes of 2023

100 gecs, 1000 gecs

i forgot this came out this year, it’s already such an essential part of my brain.

(no I’M the dumbest girl alive)

Lauren Bousfield, Salesforce

a perfect distillation of the delirium of 2023: “like having my brain go through a paper shredder directly into whitewater and over a waterfall.”

Vince Clarke, Songs of Silence

if Salesforce is the present, Songs of Silence is something like a window into our haunted future. (and in a world in which Denis Villeneuve’s Dune had anything to say, “Red Planet” would be the centerpiece of its soundtrack.)

Mammal Hands, Gift from the Trees

i’m not sure what it is, but the opening of “The Spinner” that makes me want to cry (laudatory). the rest of the album is lovely too.