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ARTY - Love To Forget
ARTY comes home to melodic trance on Love To Forget after years chasing festival-pop, and that liquid arp is unmistakably him.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Slow Magic - Promises
Slow Magic's Promises put a lump in my throat: handmade drums and a chopped vocal in a genre drowning in presets. Genuinely reassuring.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Marshmello, Halsey - Be Kind (Surf Mesa Remix)
Surf Mesa slows Be Kind underwater and finally lets Halsey's melancholy breathe. The original never stuck with me. This one did.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Amelie Lens - come closer
Amelie Lens's come closer holds the tension for minutes and then just stops, lights on mid-thought. Play it loud in the dark.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Seven - Headed / Aldgate
Seven's Aldgate has a sub bassline so low it barely registers on laptop speakers. Dark room, big rig, twenty minutes gone before you notice.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Your Frustration Has a Score
Read more . . . →Amazon built an internal system called “Atlas” that assigns every warehouse a score between 100 and 900. A hundred means workers are organizing. Nine hundred means they’re not. Machine learning models crunch daily sentiment data to predict which buildings will unionize next, sort them into tiers, and deploy what the company calls “empathetic listening” before anyone can get to a card signing. Your break room conversations are a signal. Your desire for a living wage is a risk metric on a dashboard in Seattle. Workers at the Staten Island JFK8 facility voted to form a union in April 2022. Four...
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Said The Sky - Gotta Get To You (LOCKBOX Remix)
LOCKBOX drags Said The Sky's Gotta Get To You somewhere darker and heavier. Play it back to back with the original. This one aches more.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Milkoi - LAST TIME
Milkoi makes LAST TIME sweat for forty seconds before the drop turns cold and mechanical instead of predictable. Worth the wait.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Pirapus - RENEGADE (Every Day)
Nobody knows who Pirapus is, but RENEGADE (Every Day) is a jump-up set-closer with a hook I muttered in a corner shop by accident.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Procurement Art
Read more . . . →Fourteen thousand dollars and it still can’t find a nail. The cushion is red velvet. The case is museum glass. And the thing on display is a claw hammer from any hardware store, eleven dollars with tax. Somebody in procurement signed that up to fourteen thousand, and then everybody went to lunch. The museum-goers walking past it are having a better afternoon than the taxpayers who bought it, which is usually how government spending works.
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