Saturday, December 19, 2020

GLW.20.05: Erik Kristjanson



100 SONGS: Aaron Bergstrom

GLW.20.01: Ilana Bergstrom

GLW.20.02: Curt Trnka

GLW.20.03: Remko Van Knippenberg

GLW.20.04: Jem Woodward

GLW.20.05: ERIK KRISTJANSON

GLW.20.06: Marisa Plaice

GLW.20.07: Russell Abdo

GLW.20.08: Garrett Bukunt

GLW.20.09: Megan Swidler

GLW.20.10: Garrett Tillman

GLW.20.11: Scott Lawson

GLW.20.12: Carl Anderson


***


If there was ever a year we needed music, 2020 was it. Here's 20 songs I connected with:


1. Christine and the Queens - “People, I've been sad”


I had a hard time picking just one song above the rest this year, but damn it was a sad year, so this is it. 


2. Waxahatchee - “Fire”


Great song on an album full of great songs. 


3. Perfume Genius - “On the Floor”


He's a musical genius, too. 


4. Phoebe Bridgers - “I Know the End”


It really did feel like the end at some points this year. This builds so beautifully to an epic end, such is life?   


5. Adrianne Lenker - “anything”


Her voice and a simple guitar is all it takes to be incredibly moved.   


6. Angel Olsen - “Whole New Mess”


This is about much more, but to me it was about the end of every day in a house full of two grown adults and a food-throwing baby living at home 100% of the time.  


7. Thundercat - “Dragonball Durag”


So smooth, this guy is the essence of cool.   


8. HAIM - “I Know Alone”


When I was an impressionable 5th or 6th grader in Atlanta, there was an R&B song called “My Boo” by Ghost Town DJs (maybe?). This song has that sound and it works for me.


9. Fiona Apple - “I Want You to Love Me”


Intense and emotional, like the album. No one's going to accuse Fiona Apple of making easy listeners.   


10. Run The Jewels  - “walking in the snow”


An album for the times, Killer Mike's verse on this song gives me chills.


11. Fleet Foxes - “Young Man's Game”


If life is indeed a young man's game, what does that mean for us guys getting older?  


12. Caribou - “Ravi”


I loved this whole album but this was the real earworm for me. Earworm of the Year.


13. Busta Rhymes - “Look Over Your Shoulder”


Kendrick kills his guest verse and Busta in his fast-rapping form, this is gold.   


14. Freddie Gibbs - “Scottie Beam”


Gibbs' raps over these lovely beats work so well. Rick Ross showed up too. 


15. Little Dragon - “Are You Feeling Sad?”


Yes, I'm feeling sad. But this song makes me feel a bit better. 


16. Fontaines D.C. - “A Hero's Death”


This song is somehow depressing and uplifting at the same time. They were the last live show I saw - I miss live shows! :( 


17. Leon Bridges - “Sweeter”


I'm hoping for a life more sweeter for you too, Leon. 


18. Ricky Reed - “Real Magic”


This is that old school R&B sounding stuff, guess I had a soft spot for nostalgia this year. 


19. Tame Impala - “Lost in Yesterday”


While the album didn't hit for me like their previous work, I still dig the sonic sounds of this one. 


20. Disclosure - “Ce n'est pas”


Danced with the baby around the house a lot to this. We all needed that in 2020.

No comments:

Post a Comment