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2023 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2023, I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2023

ÁTTA - Sigur Ros

*insert crying emojis*

Favorite Songs:

Klettur

8

Swinging Stars - Mapache

Favorite new discovery of the year. Seeing them on a cold night at The Merc this past October was a gift.

Favorite Songs:

French Kiss

What A Summer

Encinal Canyon

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

*INSERT MORE CRYING EMOJIS*

(Sufjan strikes again with yet another masterpiece.)

Favorite Songs:

Goodbye Evergreen

Shit Talk

Runners Up

Love in the Void - Hammock

Laugh Track - The National

3D Country - Geese

The Silver Cord - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Liked It

Five Easy Hot Dogs - Mac Demarco

Strays - Margo Price

Pollen - Tennis

This Stupid World - Yo La Tengo

The Rainbow Wheel of Death - Dougie Poole

Fantasy - M83

The Record - boygenius

Rat Saw God - Wednesday

Celebrants - Nickel Creek

First Two Pages of Frankenstein- The National

Proof Of Life - Joy Oladokun

V - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Romantic Piano - Gia Margaret

That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware

Is It? - Ben Howard

Little Songs - Colter Wall

Walk Around The Moon - DMB

Time Ain’t Accidental - Jess Williamson

Greg Mendez - Greg Mendez

everything is alive - Slowdive

Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan

Appaloosa Bones - Gregory Alan Isakov

Cousin - Wilco

Rustin’ in the Rain - Tyler Childers

Live Vol. 2 - Parcels

The Holey Bible - Florry

Live and Loose! - MJ Lenderman and The Wind

Higher - Chris Stapleton

Genevieve - Fust

Say What You Like - Doug Paisley

Jump for Joy - Hiss Golden Messenger

Haunted Mountain - Buck Meek

End - Explosions In The Sky

Cut Worms - Cut Worms

Meh

Honey - Samia

Apocalypse …  - KGTLW

Weathervane - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Haven't Listened Yet…

New Blue Sun - André 3000

Coyote - Dylan LeBlanc

Hold - Wild Nothing

Hackney Diamonds - The Rolling Stones

Strays II - Margo Price

Isn’t It Now? - Animal Collective

The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

A Cat in the Rain - Turnpike Troubadours

End Of The Day - Courtney Barnett

End of Everything - Mega Bog

One Wayne G - Mac Demarco

Museum - JFDR

All of This Will End - Indigo De Souza

Joy’All - Jenny Lewis

O Monolith’ - Squid

I Only See the Moon - The Milk Carton Kids

The Love Still Held Me Near - City and Colour

Norm - Andy Shauf 

SUSS - SUSS

Yesterday’s News - Robert Ellis

I Saw the Arkansas - Dylan Earl

Yard - Slow Pulp

Valley of Heart’s Delights - Margo Cilker

Concerts

Big Thief, Cains Ballroom, Tulsa, OK (2/11/23)

Fleet Foxes, Cains Ballroom, Tulsa, OK (6/30/23)

Phish, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (8/4/23)

Phish, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (8/5/23)

Mapache - Mercury Lounge, Tulsa, OK (10/17/23)

The National, Tulsa Theater, Tulsa, OK (11/16/23)

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life

2012

2013

2014 

2015

2016

2017 

2018

2019 

2020 

2021

2022

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Happy Listening!

Jake

[jakobdodson]

2022 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2022. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2022

Blue Rev - Alvvays

Banger after banger after banger on here!

Favorite Songs:

After The Earthquake

Tile By Tile

Belinda Says

Bored In Bristol

A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile 

This is essentially a Radiohead album with a jazzy twist. Accordingly, it belongs here, among my favorites of the year. 

Favorite Songs:

Speech Bubbles

Open The Floodgates

Free In The Knowledge

Skirting On The Surface

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief

My most anticipated release of the year that easily surpassed my highest expectations. It explodes into several beautifully creative directions and where it could overwhelm with its ambition it tends to endear and make you smile.

Favorite Songs:

Change

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Flower of Blood

Red Moon

Promise Is a Pendulum

12,000 Lines

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Runners Up

Dawn FM - The Weeknd 

Once Twice Melody - Beach House

LABYRINTHITIS - Destroyer 

Ice, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Dripfield - Goose

Music for Animals - Nils Frahm

Liked It

Misadventures of Doomscroller - Dawes

I’m Not Sorry, I’m Just Being Me - King Hannah

Good and Green Again - Jake Xerxes Fussell

Hell on Church Street - Punch Brothers

Time Skiffs - Animal Collective

Ants from Up There - Black Country, New Road 

Humble Quest - Maren Morris

The Joy of Music - Ben Rector

The Jacket - Widowspeak

Underground Complex No. 1 - Typhoon 

Fear of the Dawn - Jack White

Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Giving The World Away - Hatchie 

Break Me Open - S. Carey

Romeo & Juliet - Ryan Adams

One is One - Delta Spirit

Two Ribbons - Let’s Eat Grandma

Big Time - Angel Olsen

Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain

Cruel Country - Wilco

The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen

Surrender - Maggie Rogers

Teeth Marks - S.G. Goodman 

Take It Like A Man - Amanda Shires

Sons Of - Sam Prekop & John McEntire

Chloe and the Next 20th Century - Father John Misty

Reggae Film Star - Damian Jurado

Freakout/Release - Hot Chip

Will Of The People - Muse

WE - Arcade Fire

Birds In The Ceiling - John Moreland

Profound Mysteries II - Röyksopp 

sandhills music - Ben Seretan

The Blue EP - MORE&MORE

I’m Sweating All the Time - Wormy

Heartmind - Cass McCombs

The Liar - John Fullbright

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Changes - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Rolling Golden Holy - Bonny Light Horseman

Into the Blue - Broken Bells

I Walked With You a Ways - Plains

Laminated Denim - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

ILYSM - Wild Pink

Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood

Schvitz - Vulfpeck

MUNA - MUNA

Cowboy Ballads, Pt. 1 - Jesse Tabish

Drew Winn - Drew Winn

Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? - Tyler Childers

Blue Skies - Dehd

Harry’s House - Harry Styles

Ali - Vieux Farka & Khruangbin

Meh

Quitters - Christian Lee Huston

Chris - Ryan Adams

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

Plonk - Huerco S.

Palomino - First Aid Kit

Alpha Zulu - Phoenix

God Save the Animals - Alex G

No Rules Sandy - Sylvan Esso

Not from 2022

Ram - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney 

Plum - Widowspeak

Tago Mago - CAN

Ege Bamyasi - CAN

Night Moves - Bob Seger

Dots & Loops - Stereolab

Haven’t Listened Yet...

ForeverEverAndEverNoMore - Brian Eno

Empire Central - Snarky Puppy

Björk - Fossora

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

FM - Ryan Adams 

Entering Heaven Alive - Jack White

V I N C E N T - FKJ

Inside Problems - Andrew Bird

Kumoyo Island - Kikagaku Moyo

Dropout Boogie - The Black Keys

Headful of Sugar - Sunflower Bean

Everything Was Beautiful - Spritualized

Electricity- Ibibio Sound Machine

(watch my moves) - Kurt Vile

You Belong There - Daniel Rossen 

El Mirador - Calexico

Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Things Are Great - Band of Horses

caroline - caroline

Pompeii - Cate Le Bon

The Dream - alt-j

Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell

Laurel Hell - Mitski 

Silver Sash - Wovenhand

Concerts Attended in 2022:

The War on Drugs - Cains Ballroom - Tulsa, OK - 6/4/22

John Fullbright - Fassler Hall - Tulsa, OK - 10/2/22

Spoon - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Goose - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Kacey Musgraves - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Luke Combs - Paycom Center - Oklahoma City, OK - 12/9/22

The Book of Mormon - Eugene O’Neill Theatre - New York, NY - 12/21/22

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life

2012

2013

2014 

2015

2016

2017 

2018

2019 

2020 

2021 

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Happy Listening!

Jake

[jakobdodson]

2021 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2021. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2021

Promises - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

I could cheese it up and try to articulate something about how Promises can imbue wonder into the ordinary and blah blah blah... but I like the way this review from Paste puts it: 

“Promises is the kind of album that can rearrange the molecules in the room.”

Word.

I remember studying for the LSAT one Saturday morning earlier this year and deciding to put this one on. I thought it was boring. “Mmm... nice background music!”, or so I thought.

By Movement 6, I had a thousand yard stare and onset existential crisis.

How often do I give my full attention to really listening? (and not just to music...) How often is it taken from me? 

Pretty rare, in my experience. For better or for worse.

Anyway, shoutout to this one for inflicting irreparable damage to my LSAT score!

Favorite Songs:

Movement 6

Movement 7

Movement 8

I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War On Drugs

Sometimes something finds you at the right moment; a relationship, a nice view, the peanut butter bacon burger at Fat Guys...

I spun this one over and over and over and I think its because it found me at a good time? Musically, lyrically... it really moved me.

“Feel the storm coming on Feel the darkness at your gate Live the loneliness of life Keep on moving at your pace Ain't the sky just shades of gray Until you seen it from the other side? Oh, if loving you is the same It's only some occasional rain”

Just shades of gray, indeed.

Favorite Songs:

Harmonia’s Dream

Change

I Don’t Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius)

Occasional Rain

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Runners up

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Talk Memory - BADBADNOTGOOD

My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket

Music For Psychedelic Therapy - Jon Hopkins

An Overview on Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins

Far In - Helado Negro

Day/Night - Parcels

Liked It

Sympathetic Magic - Typhoon

Two Saviors - Buck Meek

Good Woman - The Staves

A Billion Little Lights - Wild Pink

L.W. - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

CARNAGE - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

As the Love Continues - Mogwai

Yol - Altin Gün

The Pet Parade - Fruit Bats

Collections From The Whiteout - Ben Howard

Green to Gold - The Antlers

G_d’s Pee AT STATES END - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Head of Roses - Flock of Dimes

Music - Benny Sings

MAYBE WERE THE VISITORS - Page McConnell

Bright Green Field - Squid

Cicada Waves - Ben Seretan

Fire In Little Africa - Fire In Little Africa

Long Lost - Lord Huron

Butterfly 3000 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Quietly Blowing It - Hiss Golden Messenger

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

I Know I’m Funny haha - Faye Webster

The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

BLONDIE - Nick Midnight

Gold-Digger Sound - Leon Bridges

One Foot In Front Of The Other - Griff

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita - Sturgill Simpson

Lost Futures - Marisa Anderson & William Tyler

Local Valley - José González

Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) - Explosions In The Sky

Year Of The Spider - Shannon & The Clams

Music Of The Spheres - Coldplay

Donda - Kanye West

Projector - Geese

Valentine - Snail Mail

Pressure Machine - The Killers

Infinite Granite - Deafheaven

Tethers - Minor Moon

An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic

30 - Adele

Things Take Time, Take Time - Courtney Barnett

How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? - Big Red Machine

Cerulean - Nashville Ambient Ensemble

Meh

For the first time - Black Country, New Road

Little Oblivions - Julien Baker

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

Sketchy - Tune Yards

Ice Melt - Crumb

Star-Crossed - Kacey Musgraves

Sob Rock - John Mayer

Afrique Victime - Mdou Moctar

Audio Drag for Ego Slobs - Gustaf

Certified Lover Boy - Drake

Queens of the Summer Hotel - Aimee Mann

Dark in Here - The Mountain Goats

Haven’t listened yet...

Silver Dream - Moon Taxi

Strawberry Mansion - Langhorne Slim

Medicine at Midnight - Foo Fighters

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

As Days Get Dark - Arab Strap

When You See Yourself - Kings of Leon

Reincarnation - BONZIE

The Million Masks of God - Manchester Orchestra

Convocations - Sufjan Stevens

Daddy’s Home - St. Vincent

Changephobia - Rostam

Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice

CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST - Tyler, The Creator

Alem - Altin Gun

Peace Or Love - Kings Of Convenience

Elsewhere - Hammock

Trespass on Foot - Kiran Leonard

Petunia - Tonstartssbandht

Raise the Roof - Robert Plant & Allison Kraus

Which Way to Be Happy - Penelope Isles

Henki - Richard Dawson & Circle

Long Lost - Lord Huron

Not from 2021 (Albums that weren’t released this year, yet finally clicked for me):

Naturally - J.J. Cale

American Stars ‘N Bars - Neil Young

Youth Pastoral - Ben Seretan

Aja - Steely Dan

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Look-Ka Py Py - The Meters

Capacity - Big Thief

UFOF - Big Thief

Departure Songs - Hammock

Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow - Hammock

Live Vol. 1 - Parcels

Wildflowers - Tom Petty

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town - Emmylou Harris

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris 

Concerts Attended in 2021:

Jon Fullbright & Patty Griffin - Woody Guthrie Folk Festival - Guthrie, OK - 7/16/21

Phish - Walmart AMP - Rogers, AR - 7/28/21

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

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Happy Listening!

Jake

[jakobdodson]

2020 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2020. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2020 (in no particular order...)

The Slow Rush - Tame Impala

*chef’s kiss*

Favorite songs:

Instant Destiny

Breathe Deeper

On Track

One More Hour

After Hours - The Weeknd

Often my companion for long, therapeutic walks through the Houston Heights in March/April.

Favorite songs:

Hardest To Love

Scared To Live

Faith

Blinding Lights

The Waterfall II - My Morning Jacket

Hot damn OUT OF NOWHERE! Not your typical release of “B-sides”.

Favorite songs:

Still Thinkin

Feel You

Wasted

folklore - Taylor Swift

I didn’t know I needed it until I heard it. 

(evermore could just as easily have been here, but there’s something about the initial surprise of this one...)

Favorite songs:

the last great american dynasty

exile

august

Ghosts V: Together - Nine Inch Nails

I owe the discovery of this to the amazing TV show Watchmen. I appreciated the music from the show in particular, so I did some digging... Take some deep breaths and let this soothe you.

Favorite songs:

Letting Go While Holding On

Together

Your Touch

Shore - Fleet Foxes

Beautiful, happy, and perfectly-timed. To me, the most sorely-needed and welcomed addition to this list by far.

Favorite songs:

Sunblind

Featherweight

I’m Not My Season

Going-to-the-Sun-Road

Some Kind of Peace - Ólafur Arnalds

Great for more deep breathing.

Favorite songs:

Loom

Zero

New Grass

Undone

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Runners up

LP5 - John Moreland

Total Freedom - Kathleen Edwards

Microphones in 2020 - The Microphones

Love Is The King - Jeff Tweedy

Free Love - Sylvan Esso

Swimmer - Tennis

Starmaker - Honey Harper

evermore - Taylor Swift 

Liked it

songs / instrumentals - Adrianne Lenker

Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman

We Will Always Love You - The Avalanches

Suite No. 2: World Keeps Spinning - The Brilliance

Simulcast - Tycho

Peopled with Dreams - John Mark McMillan

Teamwork - Futurebirds

And It’s Still Alright - Nathaniel Rateliff

3.15.20 - Childish Gambino

Tohu Wa Bohu - Lord Buffalo

Circles - Mac Miller

Modern Johnny Sings: Songs in the Age of Vibe - Theo Katzman

Chunky Shrapnel - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

WITH - Sylvan Esso

Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee

Earth - EOB

Making a Door Less Open - Car Seat Headrest

Reunions - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

Peace To All Who Enter Here - Josh Garrels

Sorceress - Jess Williamson

RTJ4 - Run The Jewels

Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers

Homegrown - Neil Young

Mordechai - Khruangbin

Untitled (Black Is) - SAULT

Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM

Are You Perfect Yet? - Weiwu

That’s How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price

Imploding The Mirage - The Killers

We Have Amnesia Sometimes - Yo La Tengo

Modus Vivendi - 070 Shake

A Small Death - Samantha Crain

Healer - Grouplove

Shape & Destroy - Ruston Kelly

The Baby - Samia

The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens

What Is There - Delta Spirit

Sundowner - Kevin Morby

Starting Over - Chris Stapleton

K.G. - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Sigma Oasis - Phish

American Head - The Flaming Lips

My Love is a Hurricane - David Ramirez

Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 - Gillian Welch

Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 - Gillian Welch

Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3 - Gillian Welch

Tripping with Nils Frahm - Nils Frahm

Serpentine Prison - Matt Berninger

Untitled (Rise) - SAULT

Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen

Someone New - Helena Deland

What’s New, Tomboy? - Damien Jurado

Meh

It Is What It Is - Thundercat

Man On The Moon III - Kid Cudi

grae: Part 1 - Moses Sumney

Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius  

For Their Love - Other Lives

The New Abnormal - The Strokes

Good Souls Better Angels - Lucinda Williams

Good Luck With Whatever - Dawes

Purple Noon - Washed Out

World On The Ground - Sarah Jarosz

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Dreamland - Glass Animals

Ghosts VI: Locusts - Nine Inch Nails

Monovision - Ray LaMontagne

Haven’t listened yet...

Never Will - Ashley McBryde

Everything Else Has Gone Wrong - Bombay Bicycle Club

The Main Thing - Real Estate

Marigold - Pinegrove

El Dorado - Marcus King

Kingdom In My Mind - The Wood Brothers

color theory - Soccer Mommy

Local Honey - Brian Fallon

Empty - Nils Frahm

World As a Waiting Room - White Denim

Holy Smokes Future Jokes - Blitzen Trapper

Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews

Out In The World - GUM

The Third Gleam - The Avett Brothers

All The Good Times - Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings

Lonely Trip - Trey Anastasio

Legends of the Desert, Vol. 1 - Palehorse/Palerider, Lord Buffalo

As Long As You Are - Future Islands

Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Colter Wall

Noon - Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon

Shiver - Jonsi

The Glory of Fruit Bats - Fruit Bats

Long Violent History - Tyler Childers

Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions) - Sturgill Simpson

Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions) - Sturgill Simpson

Late Night Tales - Hot Chip

All Thoughts Fly - Anna von Hausswolff

Odin’s Raven Magic - Sigur Rós

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez - Gorillaz

New Vanitas - William Tyler

Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me - Waylon Payne

McCartney III - Paul McCartney

Link to Spotify Playlist

Not from 2020 (Albums that weren't released this year, yet finally clicked for me.):

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Polygondwanaland - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow - Allison Kraus & The Cox Family

Quarters! - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Sleep - Max Richter

Modern Country - William Tyler

Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton

Wildflower - The Avalanches

Waiting For Columbus - Little Feat

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds

Apologies - David Ramirez

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

1000 Kisses - Patty Griffin

Living With Ghosts - Patty Griffin

Be Altitude: Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers

Ambient 1/Music For Airports - Brian Eno

Feats Don’t Fail Me Now - Little Feat

Manassas - Stephen Stills

No Jacket Required - Phil Collins

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Concerts Attended in 2020:

:-(

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

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Happy Listening!

Jake