Albums of January 2019

2019 for me is the Year of Habits. As I have much less to waste my time with, I now need presumably valuable things to fill up those gaps. One of those gap-fillers is listening to new music–a new album very day, in fact. I actually had attempted this back in 2017, and was able to make it to around April before finding some music that I was bit too comfortable with, and sunk back into familiar patterns of cycling the same ten or so albums over and over. I would still encounter new music of course, but at a glacial pace, and usually reluctantly.

Throughout January, I have listened to 71 new albums. In order to make it easier to keep track, I built a microsite called Now Playing (source code) to host the album list.

This site is driven by a .csv file sitting on Dropbox, which is populated through an iOS Shortcut that interactively asks me for details about the album I have listened to, and verifies those details against Last.fm to ensure I have not made any typos (Last.fm is also from where I end up pulling the album art).

The emotes at the top of Now Playing filter the list by one of four ratings: Fantastic, Great, Good, and Eh. The rating is also polled for by the iOS Shortcut. Here are the January albums I have rated Great and Fantastic (the latter are bolded):

• Caribou — Our Love
• Chinese Football — Here Comes A New Challenger!
• Denzel Curry — Imperial
• Depressive Silence — Depressive Silence II
• DJ Rozwell — NONE OF THIS IS REAL
• edIT — Crying Over Pros for No Reason
• Georgia Anne Muldrow — Seeds
• idealism — hiraeth ep
• Iglooghost — Clear Tamei
• Ital Tek — Nebula Dance
• jyocho — Days in the Bluish House
• Machine Girl — WLFGRL
• MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS — ゼロコンマ、色とりどりの世界
• Minus The Bear — Planet of Ice
• Mo’ynoq — Dreaming in a Dead Language
• MONO — Nowhere Now Here
• NUMBER GIRL — Sappukei
• Phum Viphurit — Manchild
• Rilo Kiley — The Execution of All Things
• Spangle Call Lilli Line — Dreams Never End
• Supercar — Futurama
• Tangerine Dream — Rubycon
• Tears for Fears — Songs from the Big Chair
• The Chemical Brothers — Further
• The Twilight Sad — IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME
• きのこ帝国 — 渦になる
• まじ娘 — Magic
• 平沢進 — 賢者のプロペラ
• 春ねむり — 春と修羅