musicforants:

Happy new year! Here’s my favorite albums & songs in of 2023. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs playlist* (100+ tracks) via Spotify or Apple Music.

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2023

1. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
2. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein / Laugh Track
3. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
4. boygenius - The Record
5. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
6. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes
7. Caroline Rose - The Art of Forgetting
8. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
9. Ratboys - The Window
10. Blondshell - s/t
11. Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard
12. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
13. The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes
14. Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode
15. Wilco - Cousin
16. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
17. Slowdive - everything is alive
18. Indigo De Souza - All of this will end
19. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
20. Romy - Mid Air
21. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny
22. Billy Woods & Kenny Sagan - Maps
23. The Japanese House - In the end it always does
24. Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord who chews but which does not consume
25. The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
26. Roison Murphy - Hit Parade
27. Bully - Lucky For You
28. M83 - Fantasy
29. Jess Williamson - Time Ain’t Hospitable
30. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

FAVORITE SONGS OF 2023

1. Sufjan Stevens - Shit Talk
2. Lana Del Rey - A&W
3. The National - Tropic Morning News
4. Feist - Borrow Trouble
5. Blondshell - Joiner
6. Blur - The Narcissist
7. boygenius - Not Strong Enough
8. MGMT - Mother Nature
9. Wednesday - Chosen To Deserve
10. Yo La Tengo - Aselestine
11. Caroline Rose - Miami
12. Ratboys - The Window
13. Roison Murphy - The Universe
14. Oneohtrix Point Never - A Barely Lit Path
15. Indigo De Souza - Younger & Dumber
16. Jeff Rosenstock - 3 Summers
17. Caroline Polachek - Blood & Butter
18. Sun June - Get Enough
19. Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum
20. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – Honey
21. Girl Scout - Weirdo
22. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Lean Beef Patty
23. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
24. Overmono - Good Lies
25. Bully - Days Move Slow
26. Youth Lagoon - Idaho Alien
27. Katy Kirby - Cubic Zirconia
28. Andy Shauf - Halloween Store
29. Romy - She’s On My Mind
30. M83 - Oceans Niagara
31. Yves Tumor - Echolalia
32. Big Thief - Vampire Empire
33. Olivia Rodrigo - get him back!
34. Fever Ray - Kandy
35. Jessie Ware - Begin Again
36. The Japanese House - Boyhood
37. Kelela - Contact
38. Jess Williamson - Hunter
39. Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine
40. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Soft Landing
41. Tennis - Let’s Make a Mistake Tonight
42. Slowdive - shanty
43. Beirut - Hadsel
44. NewJeans - Super Shy
45. The Clientele - Blue Over Blue
46. Nation of Language - Sole Obsession
47. ANOHNI - This Must Change
48. The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters
49. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Engine
50. The Beatles - Now and Then

Link to full 100+ track playlist on Spotify / Apple Music

*playlist subject to change

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musicforants:

With temperatures dropping, colorful foliage and seasonal beverages coming back into season, it’s the perfect time for a mixtape of wistful, melancholy acoustic guitar-heavy sounds. So with no further ado, here’s the 13th edition of the Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall) mixtape. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify / Apple Music. Enjoy!

01. Sufjan Stevens - A Running Start
02. Sun June - Get Enough
03. Yo La Tengo - Aselestine
04. Mutual Benefit - Untying a Knot
05. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Engine
06. S. Carey - Steadfast (ft. Gordi)
07. boygenius - Cool About It
08. Andy Shauf - Halloween Store
09. Jess Williamson - Hunter
10. The National - Coat on a Hook
11. Allison Ponthier - Hardcore (Acoustic)
12. Great Lake Swimmers - Peacemaker
13. Courtney Barnett - Different Now (ft. Chastity Belt)
14. The Tallest Man On Earth - Slowly Rivers Turn
15. Blue Lake - Fur
16. Katy Kirby - Cubic Zirconia
17. The Clientele - Lady Grey
18. Kara Jackson - pawnshop
19. Youth Lagoon - Idaho Alien
20. Maybel - Long Road Ahead
21. Hiss Golden Messenger - My Old Friends
22. Madison Cunningham - Anywhere
23. Beirut - So Many Plans
24. Luz - not going anywhere
25. Wilco - A Bowl and A Pudding
26. Boundary Run - Stranger
27. Shannon Lay - From the Morning
28. Nick Mulvey - A Prayer of My Own
29. BEAR DOWN BEAR - Saturnalia
30. Lana Del Rey - Let The Light In (ft. Father John Misty)

Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall) Vol. 13 by Taylor Johnston

Playlist · 30 Songs

Apple Music - Web Player

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music

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musicforants:

Blame El Niño delivering some much-needed wetter, cooler weather this year for the playlist’s late arrival, but now that summer is sweltering, I’m here with my 14th annual mixtape full of effervescent, sunny new indie jams to blast loud while your making all your summer memories. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 14

01. Small Black - Bad Lover (DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ Remix)
02. Marci - KITY
03. Girl Ray - Hold Tight
04. Blondshell - Joiner
05. Phoenix - After Midnight (ft. Clairo)
06. Overmono - Good Lies
07. Röyksopp - Let’s Get It Right (feat. Astrid S)
08. Caroline Polachek - Smoke
09. Shalom - Happenstance
10. White Reaper - Pages
11. Grace Ives - Lullaby
12. boygenius - Not Strong Enough
13. Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair - Set The Roof
14. Beach Fossils - Run To the Moon
15. Romy & Fred again.. - Strong
16. Georgia - It’s Euphoric
17. Superviolet - Overrater
18. yunè pinku - Night Light
19. Shygirl - Firefly
20. Tennis - Let’s Make a Mistake Tonight
21. Chromeo - Words With You
22. Girl Scout - Run Me Over
23. Flume - One Step Closer 1.4 [ft. Panda Bear]
24. Jenny Lewis - Psychos
25. Ela Minus & DJ Python - Pájaros En Verano
26. Róisín Murphy - The Universe
27. Coco & Clair Clair - Pop Star
28. The Beths - Watching the Credits
29. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
30. The 1975 - Happiness

Spotify Playlist:

Apple Music Playlist:

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 14 - 2023 by Taylor Johnston

Playlist · 30 Songs

Apple Music

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musicforants:

Here’s my favorite albums & songs in a year that had no shortage of great music. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs of 2022 playlist (100 tracks) via Spotify or Apple Music.

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2022

1. Alvvays - Blue Rev
2. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
3. Destroyer - LABYRINTHITIS
4. Spoon - Lucifer On the Sofa
5. Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
6. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
7. SAULT - UNTITLED (God)
8. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
9. Wild Pink - ILYSM
10. The Weeknd - Dawn FM
11. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
12. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
13. Angel Olsen - Big Time
14. Wet Leg - Wet Leg
15. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
16. Wilco - Cruel Country
17. Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
18. Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
19. Let’s Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons
20. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
21. Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS
22. Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
23. ROSALIA - MOTOMAMI
24. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
25. The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
26. Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter
27. Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
28. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
29. Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure
30. Hatchie - Giving The World Away

FAVORITE SONGS OF 2022

1. Braxe + Falcon - Step by Step (feat. Panda Bear)
2. Destroyer - June
3. The Weeknd - Less Than Zero
4. Beach House - New Romance
5. Alvvays - Belinda Says
6. Jamie xx - LET’S DO IT AGAIN
7. Big Thief - Simulation Swarm
8. Spoon - Wild
9. LCD Soundsystem - new body rhumba
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)
11. Beyoncé - VIRGO’S GROOVE
12. Soccer Mommy - Shotgun
13. Let’s Eat Grandma - Happy New Year
14. The Smile - Skrting On the Surface
15. Ethel Cain - American Teenager
16. Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
17. ROSALÍA - SAOKO
18. Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint
19. Mitski - Love Me More
20. Wet Leg – Angelica
21. Alex G - Runner
22. Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line
23. Weyes Blood - God Turn Me Into a Flower
24. Harry Styles - As It Was
25. Nilüfer Yanya - midnight sun
26. Phoenix - After Midnight
27. The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
28. Angel Olsen - Right Now
29. Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
30. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge
31. Caroline Polachek - Billions
32. Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
33. Horsegirl - Anti-glory
34. SAULT - God In Disguise
35. Hatchie - Quicksand
36. Bartees Strange - Heavy Heart
37. Wild Pink - See You Better Now
38. Hot Chip - Eleanor
39. Julia Jacklin - Lydia Wears a Cross
40. Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5
41. Gang of Youths - in the wake of your leave
42. Plains - Abilene
43. Spiritualized - The Mainline Song
44. Wilco - Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull
45. Jockstrap - Greatest Hits
46. Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr. Blue
47. SZA - Shirt
48. Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph
49. Cate Le Bon - Moderation
50. Jack White - That Was Then, This is Now

Link to full 100-track playlist on Spotify / Apple Music

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musicforants:

With temperatures dropping and colorful foliage and seasonal beverages returning, it’s the perfect time to switch from exuberant synthy jams to wistful guitars and angsty vibes. Here’s the 12th edition of the Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall) mixtape to help evoke the winsome melancholy of the season. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify / Apple Music. Enjoy!

01. Cass McCombs - New Earth
02. Plains - Abilene
03. Shannen Moser - Oh My God
04. Bonny Light Horseman - California
05. Maya Hawke - Luna Moth
06. San Fermin - Someone You Call Baby
07. Father John Misty - Goodby Mr. Blue
08. girl in red - October Passed Me By
09. Kurt Vile - Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)
10. Florist - Two Ways
11. Warpaint - Champion
12. Andrew Bird - I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain (ft. Phoebe Bridgers)
13. First Aid Kit - Turning Onto You
14. Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness
15. Skullcrusher - It’s Like a Secret
16. Laura Veirs - Autumn Song (feat. Kate Stables)
17. Wilco - Country Song Upside-down
18. Indigo Sparke - Hysteria
19. Horsegirl - World of Pots and Pans
20. Old Sea Brigade - If You’re Falling Asleep
21. Angel Olsen - Right Now
22. Drugdealer - Pictures of You (feat. Kate Bollinger)
23. Weyes Blood - Grapevine
24. S.G. Goodman - Teeth Marks
25. Sharon Van Etten - Never Gonna Change
26. Alex G - Miracles
27. Katie Toupin - Adam’s Song
28. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
29. Jacob Humber - Quiet Conversation
30. Wild Pink - The Grass Widow In The Glass Window

➡️ Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music

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new…RIHANNA?

musicforants:

ALT

Summer has arrived in all it’s sweltering glory and as per usual I’ve made a mixtape full of exuberant, feel-good sunny jams (the 13th annual!) to blast while you’re out making your summer memories. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 13

01. Jamie xx - LET’S DO IT AGAIN
02. Sea Lemon - Turn Away
03. illuminati hotties & Bartees Strange - Pool Hopping (Strange Pool Remix)
04. TOPS - Party Again
05. Purple Disco Machine - Hypnotized (ft. Sophie and the Giants)
06. Beach Bunny - Oxygen
07. Hatchie - This Enchanted
08. Gang of Youths - in the wake of your leave
09. Braxe & Falcon - Step by Step (ft. Panda Bear)
10. PUP - Matilda
11. Barrie - Jersey
12. Magdalena Bay - Hysterical Us
13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Tidal River
14. Charli XCX - Lightning
15. Spoon - Wild
16. Joesef - It’s Been a Little Heavy Lately
17. Soccer Mommy - Shotgun
18. Ducks Ltd. - 18 Cigarettes
19. Empress Of - Save Me
20. Wet Leg - Angelina
21. Mitski - Love You More
22. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - B-side
23. Foals - 2am
24. Channel Tres - Acid in My Blood
25. Dehd - Bad Love
26. MUNA - Anything But Me
27. Wallows - I Don’t Want to Talk
28. Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced
29. Yumi Zouma - Give It Hell
30. Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)

Spotify Playlist:

Apple Music Playlist:

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 13 - 2022 by Taylor Johnston

Playlist · 30 Songs

Apple Music

Happy July 4th weekend! ☀️🎵🤘🕶️
(spotify link to playlist ->)

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music:

Artist of the Month: mxmtoon

Tumblr’s Artist of the Month for June is singer-songwriter mxmtoon.

We have some exclusive behind-the-scenes footage for you so check it out and listen to her new album rising right here.

Stay tuned for content all month long on @music and be sure to follow @mxmtoonofficial!

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This song remains an absolute banger—perfect for an unruly spring evening.

tuneage:

I just need a little 2022-but-make-it-80s-synth escapism these days

(these two singles are from an EP by Hether Fortune called Sober Karaoke—the first one will get stuck in your head as if its existed for 30 years)

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tuneage:

This entire album is layered with Stronae’s intricate albeit to create extended metaphors through sound and lyricism.

I think why people like me and French teachers love Stromae is because of his incredibly playful and deft use of language.

This song, for example? The chorus literally includes the French words for “poopoo” (caca) and “peepee” (pipi), it also talks about vomiting. It’s also about the joy of fatherhood, and his affected high voice, against the tones of a xylophone and hand-claps. It’s catchy, it’s light, it’s silly.

This song is more emblematic if the kind of music we’re used to seeing from Stromae—beautiful instrumentation and vocals against coarse, raw lyrics. He reflects on the way the world perceives mothers, and how that refracts back on children. With elegant strings, he embeds beauty as he sings of the ugly sins of our world.

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