Happy Friday I’m writing this letter from my phone on an airplane will wonders never cease etc. My jet lag app says I can go to sleep in two hours. I’m not a chill traveler per se - I need to adhere to my strict guidelines and regimes l, and also to overpack 4-9 lbs over the weight limit (minimum), in order to feel secure enough to go boho-who-cares mode when I’m actually on my vacation. This is my process. When presented with my systems (and the notions of packing cubes) my travel companion said, and I quote, “your preparedness is dazzling.”
I can’t do a particularly well formatted version of this due to the circumstances but here’s a nonetheless meaty list of probably not accidentally free-wheeling, horizon-seeking new music I’m loving for the weekend, and a of course, a little playlist (sorry for the typos):
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a week. (I’m fine).
New Fontaines D.C song “Marianne” is good! Bodes well for the forthcoming album.
My friend Adrien put me on to this Atlanta band called Ricochet Star and when someone sends me something like this (gauzy, layered, dreamy) I feel seen and known. Their EP, Every Other Moon, came out in June.
She was the subject of our last Monday Mixtape (“our” hallucinating collaborators now) and I said it then and I’ll say it again - Grace Cummings is the musical offspring of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey.
WiFi went out and I fell asleep but I’m back.
(I can’t explain it fully but these next few albums feel linked to the Traveling Wilburys music video I watched while sitting at “Rock and Brews” at LAX this morning):