MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE DECADE.

happy new year!! new decade!! new beginnings!! speaking of which, we are in the midst of experiencing the beginning of a new era! a new era of art, television, technology, fashion, movies, music- is this what the 80’s felt like!?! it’s all very exciting… but as we move on to the 20’s (again) i’d like to reflect on this past decade that has brought so many great tunes into my life. now, if i listed all the songs that have had an impact on me in the last decade or even songs that were just my fuggin jaaammm, we might need another decade just to listen to it all. so i’ve listed some (i had to cut it down) of my favorite albums that i have played (and maybe overplayed) from this past decade. it was a brutal task that no one asked me to do but i enjoyed the walk down memory lane SO… without further ado, here are my favorite albums of the decade.

• flamingo by brandon flowers
• wreckorder by fran healy
• the big black and the blue by first aid kit
• bon iver by bon iver
• james blake by james blake
• every kingdom by ben howard
• strange mercy by st. vincent
• vows by kimbra
• ceremonials by florence and the machine
• an awesome wave by alt j
• time’s all gone by nick waterhouse
• the idler wheel is wiser than the driver of the screw and whipping cords will serve you more than ropes will ever do by fiona apple
• beacon by two door cinema club
• blunderbuss by jack white
• bankrupt! by phoenix
• paramore by paramore
• the secret life of walter mitty by various artists
• modern vampires of the city by vampire weekend
• and the war came by shake graves
• caustic love by paolo nutini
• crush songs by karen o
• all or nothin’ by nikki lane
• christine and the queens by christne and the queens
• how big, how blue, how beautiful by florence and the machine
• imaginary man by rayland baxter
• pageant material by kacey musgraves
• carrie & lowell by sufjan stevens
• american english by tor miller
• masterpiece by big thief
• don’t let the kids win by julia jacklin
• are you serious by andrew bird
• glasshouse by jessie ware
• raised under grey skies by jp cooper
• melodrama by lorde
• stranger in the alps by phoebe bridgers
• geography by tom misch
• be the cowboy by mitski
• the future and the past by natalie prass
• tearing at the seams by nathaniel rateliff & the night sweats
• jaime by brittany howard
• a different kind of human (step 2) by aurora
• who are you now by madison cunningham
• heard it in a past life by maggie rogers
• crushing by julia jacklin
• u.f.o.f. by big thief

PLAYLIST NO. 2: THROWBACK THURSDAY

Fullerton Arboretum / 8-7-2016 / 35mm Pentax

over the weekend i was combing through my songs on spotify and couldn’t decide on what i wanted to listen to. i gave up and hit shuffle to see what the spotify gods had in store for me… and then a song came on that i hadn’t listened to in a veeerrry long time. so many memories associated with that tune, it made me feel good listening to it again. it got me thinking of all the songs that i used to bump through my speakers day in and day out, some now sadly neglected by myself over the years. so! i put together a little playlist for this throwback thursday in honor of all those tunes that don’t get much play time anymore… you are not forgotten.

you can find my playlist here.

1. “sealion”- feist
2. “always like this”- bombay bicycle club
3. “postcards from italy”- beirut
4. “run from the gun”- dead confederate
5. “magnetised”- tom odell
6. “put me to work”- papa
7. “here i dreamt i was an architect> dreams”- Colin Meloy
8. “fever dream”- young summer
9. “four winds”- bright eyes
10. “cover up”- lucy rose
11. “some place”- nick waterhouse
12. “now and again”- tor miller
13. “hey mami”- sylvan esso