"I didn't really know much about this artist until I heard a song on a local Tucson station. This album is really pretty incredible. It has some pretty great straightforward songwriting, kind of a little bit reminiscent of the 90s but also digs into some new metal sounds, and it was one of my favorite records from 2022."Watch this moment
What's In My Bag № 805
AJJ
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Ep #805 ·
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What AJJ said · 9 records
Every quote links to the moment in the episode."Ambient-ish adjacent beat sort of music that you can just kind of zone out to, and I feel like everybody has one Boards of Canada record that they get really into and know really well."Watch this moment
"Dr. Octagon is one of the many aliases of the rapper Cool Keith and he's kind of a superhero; he can do anything as an artist and I really admire that. Very imaginative and I think it's going to sound really crispy and fried."Watch this moment
"At the end, the last two records, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, it all kind of melts and dissolves and like the songs are beautiful but it's like they're just performances and parts of performances coming in and going out. I think they recorded it over like a period of a year and brought in dozens and dozens of musicians just to jam with it without really knowing what the song was."Watch this moment
"Yeah, so this is a compilation of cassettes and seven inch appearances and stuff. Yeah, it should be good. This guy considered himself an alien and a bunch of like cosmic overtones for all his beats and stuff, but it's all just good stuff to listen to."Watch this moment
"this was the last one that she did before she took a step back criminally underrated... in my opinion like one of like the great breakup albums... this album it gets overlooked shouldn't be so good."Watch this moment
"I have listened to this one I like it a lot... I think it is like maybe her attempt at like the transition from like the folk stuff to the rock stuff... I do love it very much I highly recommend it and also just like Buffy Sainte-Marie in general is a total badass."Watch this moment
"This record seems very exciting because according to the back that I'm looking at right now it's just written and performed by Jason Molina, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and piano. His whole catalog has a huge range of just him and a guitar, full big country band, and this is like yeah this is gonna be a real small record which is cool."Watch this moment
"the songs on this album are really beautiful private songs of longing for his home country in his personal life... this record's great so beautiful."Watch this moment
Everything in the bag
11 records · pulled off the shelves at Amoeba HollywoodSqueeze
SASAMI
2022
Tomorrow's Harvest
Boards of Canada
2013
Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation
Dr. Octagon
2018
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk
1991
The El-Aylien Tapes
Ras G
2016
Ignore Grief
Xiu Xiu
2023
The Red Shoes
Kate Bush
1993
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
Buffy Sainte-Marie
1971
Pyramid Electric Co.
Jason Molina
2004
Over Fields and Mountains
Branko Mataja
2022
Back to Qawwali / Nusrat Forever
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2000
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