Daniel Bromfield

What to Listen to This Week

If you saw the Mars rover footage and wished you could be there in person, of1000faces’ Astronomica is the next best thing.

Mississippi John Hurt is the warmest and most conversational of the great early blues singers, and might’ve come across as a pretty chill guy if not for the eye-for-an-eye school of justice he advocates on “Frankie” and “Nobody’s Dirty Business.”

What to Listen to This Week

Fievel is Glauque sound like Getz/Gilberto if they recorded in a junkyard.

What to Listen to This Week

Let “Milkshake” blast in every club when they open again, but Kelis’s artistry goes so much deeper.

What to Listen to This Week

Indie-folk hero Phil Elverum briefly lived in Portland’s beloved White Stag building in 2009, and his time in the Rose City yielded one of the strongest releases of his late-2000s wilderness period

What to Listen to This Week

Sea shanties were all the rage on TikTok this last week, appropriate in a world where everyone’s resolve is being constantly put to the test.

What to Listen to This Week

2011’s “50 Words for Snow” isn’t often mentioned among the great Kate Bush albums, but it’s one of her best, most ambitious and most beautiful efforts—it also has a song about having sex with a snowman.

What to Listen to This Week

If you haven’t heard the stoned, strangely beautiful sample trip of the late rapper MF DOOM’s magnum opus, “Madvillainy,” yet, get on that.

Methods Body Creates Wordless Walls of Sound That Mirror the Relationship of the Duo Behind the Music

When John Niekrasz met Luke Wyland in 2007, a mutual friend introduced him: “Dark twin, meet your light twin.”

A Playlist for Your First Walk of Phase 1

It helps to remember that the world is beautiful place, and a nice walk is a great reminder of that. If you haven’t stepped outside in a while, throw on this playlist after putting on your mask—seriously, wear the goddamn mask—and enjoy an early summer stroll.

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