The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
The Flying Fish — First Flight
First Flight borrows a lot of its vocabulary from the sentence-as-name post-rock bands of the early-to-mid-2000’s, such as We Lost The Sea and Explosions In The Sky. I remember a lot of the music from that scene being no-nonsense, tightly-played instrumental rock. I’d describe this album as just that, taut Indian post-rock.
Washed Out — Within and Without
I was a washed-up hostel-dweller during chillwave’s brief and wondrous life. I can’t imagine a better mental space to enjoy Washed Out's Within and Without, the archetypical album of the genre. I’d like to listen to this while sheltered under a blue umbrella on a white-sand beach that is neither too hot nor too cold, just temperate.
The Orb — Adventures Beyond The Underworld
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld is a classic of ambient house and electronica, it feels like floating through space with headphones on — tuned to the frequency of some alien radio station playing music from their home planet that mimics music inspired by human electronic music.
A personal history of the world after punk: 1. Prologue
An ongoing series of stories about an ongoing love affair with punk music and its offshoots, including alternative rock, post-punk, melodic hardcore, pop-punk, post-hardcore.
Punk music
At the start of the covid crisis, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. This dispatch includes a playlist of punk music and its several offshoots: post-punk, pop-punk, hardcore, post-hardcore & new wave.
Summertime nostalgia
At the start of the covid crisis, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. This dispatch includes a playlist of South Asian music, including Bollywood music, Indian and Pakistani pop, rock, and indie music.
First message in a bottle
At the start of the covid crisis, which, for many people, started at the helm of other crises, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. These include songs, stories, writings, movies, et al. The first dispatch is a playlist and a colour that I really like.
My favourite music from 2019
My list of the best music from 2019. A mix of hip-hop, electronic, punk, metal, Indian indie, rock, etc.