Some songs I liked recently(ish)

Hey! Here are some of the songs I found myself able to write a lil bit about.

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This is maybe my favorite Beth's song lyrically? I'm not yet done listening to the new albums so we'll see if that changes. It brings to mind Pilgrim on Tinker Creek. The more attention you give to the natural world and your place in it the more beauty just seems to fall out. Also reminded me of this song from Operation Mincemeat, a musical we saw when my sister was in town some months ago. Very silly, but also uses nature in all it's grossness.

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On the subject of nature, I keep thinking about the opening track of the new Clipse album:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mh61DsXSLmk?rel=0

Okay so yes this song is an incredible application of the duo's lyrical ability to an incredibly moving and relatable subject matter (I mean it's fun to listen to them eloquate about the cocaine business, but it doesn't really connect with me you know?), and yes Pharrell absolutely killed it on the production but ALSO the title is a reference to this incredible Werner Herzog clip(se), which real atproto heads will recognize as from the same movie Blaine Cook referenced during his amazing talk at ATmosphereConf 2025!

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This is easily my favorite track from Justin ever, I've been listening to it again and again for months now. The harmonies + the barebones instrumentation, the way the repetition throughout drives home the ideas, all work so well!

The silly punchline of "I got caught compiling / I got caught compiling / I got caught compiling my own news", is hilarious and specific and genuinely insightful. There are bunch of lines I love here ("How to move without touching every interactor"), and I love how the contents work on the level of him and his fame and career, but also just on being alive today.

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I sometimes find Quad's lyrics to be a bit esoteric, or "loose", for my tastes, but the instrumentation and his voice in this song is just so gorgeous, and the moments when the percussion comes in, and the concrete imagery in here works great, and does come together for a kinda whole picture for me. The rest of the album didn't quite stick for me, but I will give it another listen at some point.

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This song is a perfect nostalgia dance-y being online growing up computer-obsessed late-nights forumcore banger.