#Emily A. Sprague

[trevlad-sounds]

Mixtape 333 “Water Melon Rainbow”

2023-07-05

Ambient electronica experimental instrumental sleep

Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Gemini Horror-To Me-00:00

Gilroy Mere-Bethesda-03:37

Bryan Rohmer-Landlines-06:58

Emily A. Sprague-Water Memory 1-08:53

Matthewdavid-Zithertronica-15:26

Wave Temples-Sunken Palace-18:03

Richard Norris-Through The Window-20:53

Cate Brooks-I-21:25

Early Fern-Leeches In The Mud-28:10

Moray Newlands-There is Joy in Solitude-30:58

Warm Binary-Read the Rainbow-34:17

Lord Of The Isles-Coco Melon-35:18

Robert Farrugia-Venules-36:57

Jay Chakravorty-Alexia, Berlin-43:24

[darkarfs]

Look at THIS smug dillhole at his senior prom (date didn't ask to be shown here, but she's married now!), May 2nd, 2000. With his two carnations and way-too-wide tie and waistcoat and unseen ponytail that reaches the small of his back.

[altitudeviolations]

"Spring in Hours" is a love song for cycles, seasons, growth, bugs, flowers, friendship, all the atoms in the universe, the chaos that created us, and the void which everything returns to - Emily Sprague

[iambountyfan]

"thank you for this song which rocked my newborn to sleep daily for the past 5 months. 🤍" – ionnalee sharing Florist's song 'Sci-fi Silence' via instagram stories.

🔗 instagram.com/ionnalee

[audiofuzz]

SEE: Brooklyn Indie Rock Outfit FLORIST

SEE: Brooklyn Indie Rock Outfit FLORIST

Emily Sprague is a talented musician in her own rite and writes some of the most melodic, emotional and ethereal folk-inspired music for her band Florist. Every song on their self-titled album is a masterpiece and keeps you enthralled in their unique and dynamic sound. Check out “Spring In Hours” below:

[sinceileftyoublog]

Florist (self-titled) Album Review

(Double Double Whammy)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

The idea of a person who has faced heartbreak or grief retreating to solitude to create art is oft-romanticized, perhaps to a fault. Emily Sprague has certainly created masterful albums by herself, whether the ambient music released under her own name or Emily Alone, a solo album released under the Florist moniker following her mother’s death and a move out west. But in June 2019, Sprague moved back to New York and rented a house in the Hudson Valley with the band’s original lineup: Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth. They’d spontaneously record their instruments beside their surrounding natural woods during a hot and rainy summer, the first time they’d ever recorded this way, for this long. The result is Florist’s latest self-titled record, a reinvention of sorts, and one that perhaps shows Sprague and the music listening public that great art can come out of reflecting on troubling times with a loving community by your side, too.

Florist is a stunning capture of Sprague processing weighty concepts in real-time, undoubtedly affected by her mother’s passing, but within the existential crises any of us have, from growing older or even awestruck at the wonder of the natural world. The songs generally alternate between instrumental and lyrical; they’re diaristic in nature, sporting titles like “June 9th Nighttime”, “Red Bird Pt 2 (Morning”), and “Jonnie on the Porch”. Fleeting moments feel like the cosmos, 2-minute interludes like they last a lifetime. 6-minute stories fly by. Sprague’s gentle voice blends with layers of acoustic guitar, muffled horns, pattering drums, sprinkling electronics, and samples of nature. Proof of life is musical, like the pulsating of chirping crickets on “June 9th Nighttime” that’s naturally rhythmic. Attempting to identify the source of different sounds, as a listener, directly mirrors the experience of being in nature, seeing if you can spot a rare bird or hear the sound of a wolf or something that could kill you.

As much as Florist has a clear beginning and end in terms of Sprague’s evolving attitude towards the journey of life and what we know about it, it’s by no means a linear record. Even the instrumentals, whether sampled or played, often loop before they go in one way or another, like the repeated guitar plucking of “Red Bird Pt 2 (Morning)”, one of a few songs to explicitly mention Sprague’s mother. “There is a winter morning you didn’t know me yet,” she sings, mixing up tenses, perfectly and plainspokenly capturing the feeling of thinking about a loved one and what their life was like before you entered it. She ends the song with an audio capture of speaking to her bandmates, speaking, “That’s it.” The take is over, but the song, immaculately written and played, feels like a disordered outpour of emotions and thoughts. Many of the album’s ambient motifs, like all three harmonic, crackling parts of “Bells”, seem like they were taken from the same recording when you listen to them from above, but they’re chopped and spliced throughout the album like a fractal, messing with your own perception.

Throughout the album, Sprague disconnects from herself, imagining her own death, or aliens examining her body, and it’s powerful in context of looking back at times with her mother. On the casually jaunty “Spring in Hours”, she sings, “I think it's the long walk to the next part of your life / Will you hold me until no more?” Her past self is unable to see a future without her mother; as such, she asks for “more” before reflecting on what she already has. “River’s Bed” is a devastating folk strummer--“It’s always the darkest things I keep inside my thoughts,” Sprague sings, continuing, “You must be a lucky one to fall into stars, after all.” Toms and bass enter in conjunction with the final line of the chorus, the lowest register sounding like the literal weight of a thudding, lifeless body.

Ultimately, Sprague finds peace in documenting what she can and can’t control, contrasting “Home is a garden that I can keep alive” with “Home is a garden that can’t keep me alive” on “Dandelion”, repeating, “You’re not what I have but what I love” on “Sci-fi Silence”. But it’s “Feathers” that’s the album’s climax. If on “Dandelion” Sprague asks why she can’t see abstract concepts like life and death in the physical realm, on “Feathers”, she plainly states concepts acting as if they’re tangible beings, bordering on a surreal perception of the world--“The mystery of dreams and existence floating in the cross breeze,” or “Love and friendship running through the garden”--and they come across as more truthful than any platitudes or aphorisms she could have included. A line like, “Sometimes I think I have too many pasts” is not an admittance in the belief of multiverses, but a reminder to--dare I say it--live in the moment. Florist closes with the instrumental “Jonnie on the Porch”, presumably Baker, not Sprague, combining saxophone and samples. You can imagine him there, surrounded by living things, practicing the band’s newfound mantra: “Listening to the sounds of life around us pass / Careful not to tread on anything needing rest.”

[algunloco]

M - Florist

[revilermpls]

Listen to Florist's Lush, Heartbreaking Self-Titled LP and Catch Them Wednesday at Turf Club!

Listen to Florist’s Lush, Heartbreaking Self-Titled LP and Catch Them Wednesday at Turf Club!

I’m guessing I’m in the minority of people who came to the band Florist first from the band’s frontwoman Emily Sprague’s solo ambient work (which I can’t recommend highly enough), but no matter how you come to her work, you’ll find yourself floored. Literally, like you’ll probably be curled up on the floor crying. Her music, especially on her amazing new self titled LP, is partially a polished…

[algds]

after much soul searching over the past 3 days i have decided these are my top 9 albums of all time. and an honourable mention to this:

hiroshi yoshimura - soundscape surround (ambient)

emily a. sprague - water memory (ambient)

the garden - mirror might steal your charm (experimental punk, plunderphonics)

blackalicious - blazing arrow (2000s hip hop)

risera - the old testament (nz rap)

fall out boy - folie a deux (2000s pop punk garbage)

my chem - three cheers + black parade (you know)

jpegmafia - veteran (jpegmafia)

and of course panic at the disco

[ghostichor]

what are we looking for ?

shadow bloom, florist / diaries of Virginia Woolf / By My Demon Eye, This is the Kit / Emily Sprague for Pitchfork

[themutetapes]

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Big Thief -- Contact TOPS -- All the People Sleep Animal Collective -- Royal and Desire Weyes Blood -- Movies Julia Holter -- Lucette Stranded on the Island Carla dal Forno -- Push On Detroit Escalator Co. -- Psalm Minami Deutsch -- The Border Dry Cleaning -- Liberty Log Anna Fox Rochinski -- Going to See Them Emily Sprague -- Strawberry Sun Skullcrusher -- Sticker

[trevlad-sounds]

Friday 6 October Mixtape 381 “Institute of Hope” Retro Space Electronic Sleep Ambient Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip or subscribe so future shows can bloom.

Panic Girl-Feathers Of Hope 00:31

Milieu-Sleepership 03:03

Bryan Rohmer-My Corner of the Couch 12:04

x.y.r.-Interior Music 012 13:57

Elin Piel-Ciliary Body 19:26

Cub-cub-Sun Dome 26:28

Gy0-Lisboa I 31:14

Apta-Close 34:42

Fragile X-Saltwater Symphony 38:20

Tim Shiel-Spirit Home 42:28

Space Ghost-New Day 44:36

Emily A. Sprague-Rain 46:48

Natural Life Essence-Polinization 52:05

Cautionary Guides-The Pharmaceutical Institute 1:00:47

[darkarfs]

100 Favorite Albums (2023 Edition)

No duplicate entries, only 3 Mike Patton projects, being honest with myself. This was hard and took a good long time. Be kind if you judge.

I've been really listening to music for over 30 years and I still know nothing. The numbers are just there for enumeration, this list is in no order.

The Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Gillian Welch - Time the Revelator

Acrania - Fearless

Genghis Tron - Board Up the House

Mr. Bungle - California

Fair To Midland - Arrows and Anchors

Gorguts - Obscura

Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra

Loscil - Plume

Ben Frost - By the Throat

Type O Negative - October Rust

Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain

Emeralds - Does It Looks Like I'm Here?

Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon

They Might Be Giants - Flood

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Breeders - Last Splash

Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth

Cryptopsy - None So Vile

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Vince DiCola and Various Artists - Transformers: the Motion Picture OST

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Gwar - Carnival of Chaos

Mike Patton - Mondo Cane

Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival

The Bug - London Zoo

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

Anaal Nathrakh - Codex Necro

Vangelis - Blade Runner OST

Killing Joke - S/T (2003)

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

Prince - Purple Rain

Brian Eno - Before and After Science

Bark Psychosis - Hex

Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City

Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Sawako - Hum

The Coup - Party Music

David Sylvain and Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition

Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

Sade - Diamond Life

Esquivel - Latin-Esque

Kesha - Rainbow

Tindersticks - Curtains

Emily A. Sprague - Water Memory / Mount Vision

Demdike Stare - Tryptych

Kyle Bobby Dunn - Ways of Meaning

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Boris - Pink

The Humble Bee - A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours

Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk

Dream Theater - Awake

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual

Deli Creeps - Dawn of the Deli Creeps

the Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Taylor Deupree - Faint

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata

Silver Jews - American Water

Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Metallica - Master of Puppets

GAS - S/T

Charles Dodge - Earth's Magnetic Field

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

Benoit Pioulard - Precis

Sparks - Angst In My Pants

Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra

Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

Exlimitir - It Weighed Itself In Silver

Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Belong - October Language

h hunt - Playing Piano For Dad

Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

CRYSTAL - Reflection Overdrive

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History

Ween - Quebec

Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You

Akira Rabelais - Eisoptrophobia

Twine - S/T

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コロナ禍で延期や中止になった公演、来れなかった方々

[2020]

2/21(金) Bill Pritchard @ 七針 2/22(土) Bill Pritchard @ 七針 2/23(日) Cicada @ TOT 2/24(月/祝) Pixies @ BAY HALL 2/25(火) Pixies @ EX THEATER 2/25(火) Angel baby @ 月見ル 2/26(水) Kevin Morby @ duo 2/28(金) Ezra Collective @ Billboard 2/28(金) Goldie @ Contact 2/29(土) Neon Bunny @ TRUNK 2/29(土) Rejoicer @ CIRCUS

3/2(月) MIKA @ COAST 3/3(火) Ari Lennox @ WWW X 3/3(火) New Order @ COAST 3⁄4(水) New Order @ COAST 3⁄5(木) Foals @ COAST 3⁄5(木) Raveena @ WWW X 3⁄5(木) Sandro Perri @ WWW 3⁄6(金) Brooke Candy @ UNIT 3⁄6(金) Kim Sawol @ Roji 3⁄7(土) Kim Sawol @ Time Out Cafe & Diner 3⁄7(土) FaltyDL @ VENT 3/8(日) Henning Schmiedt @ 明日館 3/9(月) Becca Stevens @ Blue Note 3/10(火) Becca Stevens @ Blue Note 3/10(火) Jonas Blue @ COAST 3/11(水) Jonas Blue @ Zepp DiverCity 3/12(木) Bruno Major / Georgie Clifford @ WWW 3/12(木) Fat White Family @ MARZ 3/12(木) Lightfoils @ Zher the ZOO 3/13(金) Lightfoils / Fauvely @ HIGH 3/13(金) Homeshake @ duo 3/14(土) Emily A. Sprague @ 七針 3/16(月) Ruel @ duo 3/16(月) Stereolab @ LIQUIDROOM 3/17(火) The National / Phoebe Bridgers @ Zepp DiverCity 3/18(水) The National / Phoebe Bridgers @ Zepp DiverCity 3/18(水) LAKE @ 7th floor 3/20(金/祝) Slipknot @ メッセ 3/20(金/祝) Merope @ OTOOTO 3/21(土) Slipknot @ メッセ 3/21(土) Jad Fair with Lumberob / CUSHIONS @ 7th floor 3/21(土) Emily A. Sprague @ soup 3/23(月) Bright Eyes @ LIQUIDROOM 3/24(火) Stormzy @ BLITZ 3/24(火) Jad Fair with Lumberob / CUSHIONS @ FEVER 3/25(水) LAKE @ 7th floor 3/25(水) イ・ラン @ 試聴室 3/26(木) Merope @ エアジン 3/27(金) イ・ラン @ BUSHBASH 3/27(金) Leonardo Marques @ 晴れ豆 3/27(金) Knxwledge / Mndsgn @ WOMB 3/27(金) Zed Bias @ Asia 3/27(金) Green Day @ メッセ 3/28(土) Green Day @ メッセ 3/28(土) イ・ラン @ 試聴室 3/29(日) イ・ラン @ 山谷 3/29(日) Eleventyseven @ HOME 3/29(日) Warm Bodies @ THREE 3/30(月) Julia Jacklin @ Billboard

4/1(水) Sheer Mag / Warm Bodies @ BUSHBASH 4/2(木) Glows / PVA @ o-nest 4/2(木) Tom Walker @ WWW X 4/3(金) Squarepusher @ COAST 4/3(金) Whitney @ Veats 4/3(金) Knxwledge / Mndsgn @ VISION 4/4(土) Helms Alee @ BUSHBASH 4/5(日) Helms Alee @ FEVER 4/7(火) Khalid @ PIT 4/8(水) Temples @ LIQUIDROOM 4/11(土) Sheer Mag @ HEAVY SICK 4/13(月) Sheer Mag @ FEVER 4/14(火) Ludovico Einaudi @ 国際フォーラム 4/14(火) DIIV @ LIQUIDROOM 4/15(水) TOY @ MARZ 4/16(木) TOY @ MARZ 4/16(木) Kindness @ WWW X 4/17(金)-19(日) [Rainbow Disco Club] * Antal x Huntee / Anthony Naples / Chaos In The CBD / Daniel Avery / ESA / GE-OLOGY & Red Greg / Moodymann / Motor City Drum Ensemble / Moxie / rRoxymore / Special Request 4/17(金) Mac DeMarco @ O-EAST 4/17(金) Daniel Avery @ VENT 4/18(土)-19(日) [CRAFTROCK CIRCUIT] * Pet Symmetry / UMT 4/18(土) Mac DeMarco @ O-EAST 4/18(土) Bonobo (DJ set) / Jon Hopkins (DJ set) @ O-EAST 4/19(日) [LifeSign] * Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Itasca 4/21(火) Larkin Poe @ duo 4/21(火) G. Love and Special Sauce @ QUATTRO 4/23(木) Pet Symmetry @ FEVER 4/23(木) Thundercat @ ガーデンホール 4/23(木) Pohjonen Alanko @ WWW 4/27(月) Crack Cloud @ FEVER

5/1(金) Samm Henshaw @ LIQUIDROOM 5/3(日) The TOYS @ EX-THEATER 5/4(月) Alcest @ UNIT 5/7(木) Big Thief @ WWW X 5/7(木) Halsey @ ガーデンシアター 5/9(土)-10(日) [LOVE SUPREME JAZZ FESTIVAL] * Musiq Soulchild / Robert Glasper / Sergio Mendes 5/10(日) Saves The Day @ LOFT 5/11(月) Saves The Day @ FEVER 5/12(火) Lauryn Hill @ ガーデンシアター 5/14(木) The Bluetones @ ODD 5/16(土)-17(日) [STAR FESTIVAL] * Gloo (Iglooghost/Kai Whiston/BABii) / Jayda G / Metrik + Dynamite MC / Mount Kimbie (DJ set) / Nite Fleit / SHERELLE / Zip 5/18(月) Rex Orange County @ BLITZ 5/18(月) Ásgeir @ Zepp DiverCity 5/18(月) Aiming For Enrike @ FEVER 5/19(火) Aiming For Enrike @ FEVER 5/20(水) New Hope Club @ ガーデンホール 5/21(木) MGMT @ PIT 5/21(木) ANOHNI @ 草月ホール 5/22(金) ANOHNI @ 草月ホール 5/22(金)-24(日) [TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL] * Herbie Hancock / Joshua Redman 5/23(土)-24(日) [GREENROOM FESTIVAL] * !!! / MGMT / Oscar Jerome / Sigrid / Tash Sultana 5/23(土)-24(日) [PARAMOUNT] * Alessandro Adriani / Giorgio Gigli / Mor Elian / Phuong-Dan / Planetary Assault Systems 5/25(月) Aiming For Enrike @ FEVER 5/26(火) Sigrid @ LIQUIDROOM 5/26(火) Moonchild @ QUATTRO 5/26(火) Tash Sultana @ BLITZ 5/27(水) The House of Love @ MARZ 5/28(木) The House of Love @ MARZ 5/28(木) Grégory Privat Trio @ COTTON CLUB 5/28(木) Further Seems Forever @ WOMB 5/29(金) Further Seems Forever @ WOMB 5/29(金) Ben Williams Band @ COTTON CLUB 5/30(土)-31(日) [FFKT] * Andy Stott / Caribou / Demdike Stare / DJ Python / Donna Leake / Gigi Masin / Hibiya Line / Luxixi / Maayan Nidam / MOCKY / Parris / Telefon Tel Aviv / Theo Parrish / Total Freedom / Zakia 5/30(土) Ben Williams Band @ COTTON CLUB 5/31(日) Ben Williams Band @ COTTON CLUB 5/31(日) MOCKY @ LIVE HAUS

6/1(月) epic45 @ FEVER 6/1(月) MOCKY @ LIVE HAUS 6/2(火) MOCKY @ LIVE HAUS 6/2(火) (Sandy) Alex G @ LIQUIDROOM 6/3(水) J.I.D @ WWW X 6/10(水) American Football @ COAST 6/11(木) Mew @ BLITZ 6/17(水) Slingshot Dakota @ Nine Spices 6/18(木) Parsnip @ LIVE HAUS 6/21(日) Slingshot Dakota @ RIPS 6/22(月) Slingshot Dakota @ FEVER 6/27(土) Parsnip @ Green Apple 6/27(土) Tangerine Dream @ CITTA' 6/28(日) Tangerine Dream @ CITTA'

7/22(水) Origami Angel / Short Fictions @ o-nest 7/23(木/祝) Origami Angel / Short Fictions @ OPPA-LA 7/26(日) Origami Angel / Short Fictions @ FEVER

8/21(金)-23(日) [FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL] * [8/21] Black Pumas / Clairo / Cory Wong / Derrick May / Disclosure / Donavon Frankenreiter / Elephant Gym / Future Islands / Georgia / Hinds / Jackson Browne / Lindstrøm / Men I Trust / Metronomy / Mura Masa / Neal Francis / Romy / Tame Impala / Tom Misch * [8/22] Celeste / Fantastic Negrito / Fontaines D.C. / Four Tet / Frente Cumbiero / Gryffin / Major Lazer / The Strokes / Yumi Zouma * [8/23] Altin Gun / Blackbear / Bruno Major / Colin Benders / Emotional Oranges / FKA twigs / Floating Points / GoGo Penguin / Muscle Shoals Soul Revue featuring Willie Hightower, Charles Hodges & Scott Sharrard / Rufus Wainwright / Voodoo Dead

9/2(水) Billie Eilish @ 横浜アリーナ 9/5(土)-6(日) [GREENROOM FESTIVAL] * !!! / José James / Oscar Jerome 9/8(火) Oh Wonder @ ??? 9/19(土)-21(月/祝) [SUPERSONIC] * [9/19] The 1975 / AURORA / beabadoobee / Blossoms / Fatboy Slim / Ian Brown / Liam Gallagher / Squid / Tones and I / Waterparks * [9/20] Conan Gray / DIGITALISM / Don Diablo / Jax Jones / Kygo / Skrillex / Steve Aoki / WarNymph (Grimes DJ Set) * [9/21] Alec Benjamin / Black Eyed Peas / Dominic Fike / Easy Life / Ghostemane / iDKHOW / Post Malone / Wu-Tang Clan

10/8(木) Massive Attack @ 国際フォーラム 10/9(金) Massive Attack @ 国際フォーラム 10/9(金) Red Hot Chilli Pipers @ LIQUIDROOM 10/20(火) The Chemical Brothers @ ガーデンシアター 10/21(水) The Chemical Brothers @ ガーデンシアター 10/21(水) Low Roar @ WWW X 10/31(土)-11/1(日) [FESTIVAL de FRUE] * The Master Musicians of Joujouka & The Orb / Fabiano do Nascimento

11/3(火/祝) The Master Musicians of Joujouka & The Orb @ WWW X 11/5(木) Stormzy @ COAST

12/3(木) Homeshake @ duo 12/7(月) Lauryn Hill @ ガーデンシアター 12/7(月) TOY @ MARZ 12/8(火) TOY @ MARZ 12/18(金) 박혜진 Park Hye Jin @ Contact

[2021]

1/10(日) Slipknot @ メッセ 1/11(月/祝) Slipknot @ メッセ 1/16(土) Mew @ ガーデンホール 1/22(金) Samm Henshaw @ LIQUIDROOM 1/27(水) Thundercat @ ガーデンホール

2/18(木) Squarepusher @ COAST

3/22(月) New Hope Club @ ガーデンホール 3/24(水) Big Thief @ WWW X 3/26(金) Green Day @ メッセ 3/27(土) Green Day @ メッセ

4/9(金) G. Love & Special Sauce @ QUATTRO 4/22(木) Jonas Blue @ Zepp Yokohama 4/28(水) Jonas Blue @ COAST 4/30(金) Jonas Blue @ Zepp DiverCity

5/28(金) American Football @ COAST

6/30(水) Thundercat @ ガーデンホール

9/9(木) Stereolab @ O-EAST 9/9(木) Lauryn Hill @ ガーデンシアター 9/10(金) Samm Henshaw @ LIQUIDROOM 9/17(金) black midi @ O-EAST 9/18(土)-19(日) [SUPERSONIC] * Frank Walker / Kygo / Nicky Romero

11/6(土)-7(日) [FESTIVAL de FRUE] * Fabiano do Nascimento / Sam Gendel Concert Group

12/3(金) 박혜진 Park Hye Jin @ Contact 12/25(土) Solar / Black Merlin @ Contact 12/29(水) Agnes Aves / Black Merlin @ CIRCUS

[2022]

1/26(水) New Order @ Zepp Haneda 1/28(金) New Order @ Zepp Haneda

2/22(火) Jonas Blue @ PIT 2/24(木) Jonas Blue @ KT ZEPP YOKOHAMA 2/25(金) Jonas Blue @ ZEPP DiverCity

3/3(木) Samm Henshaw @ LIQUIDROOM

4/9(土) Slipknot @ メッセ 4/10(日) Slipknot @ メッセ 4/10(日) G. Love & Special Sauce @ QUATTRO 4/23(土) DJ Harvey @ Contact 4/25(月) DJ Harvey @ OPPA-LA 4/26(火) Lauryn Hill @ ガーデンシアター

5/26(木) Telefon Tel Aviv @ Contact

7/29(金)-31(日) [FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL] * Black Pumas / Say Sue Me / Fontaines D.C.

[lily-likes-music]

Picture a cool autumn breeze, trees lining a well-trodden path, the smell of damp leaves carried on the wind. These are the images that are brought to the forefront of my mind when listening to New York based band Florist’s self-titled album. I discovered this beautiful selection of tracks on Bandcamp by accident, and it has led to some of the most pleasant music I have ever heard. On my first playthrough, the harmonies and soft acoustics struck a chord (pun not intended) with me, the way Emily Sprague’s voice drifts softly from my headphones was captivating immediately. Whilst indie folk is not a genre I have previously given much of my attention to, I realize now what a mistake that has been, as everything about this album seems to have been crafted with such care and love that you just can’t drag your ears away. My favourite track on the album is undoubtedly ‘Spring in Hours’ the tight drums pull you along as the guitar’s enchanting arpeggios flow much like a stream. Whilst I am lyric blind to a frankly horrific degree, the vocals still managed to create vivid imagery in my mind, and upon searching the lyrics, and consequently listening along whilst reading, they fit exceptionally well.

I think there’s something to be found here by most, if not all music enjoyers, and I cannot stress enough how highly I recommend this album to you all to listen to.