2019:
- Sigrid at Paste Studio NYC live from The Manhattan Center / the performance
- Sigrid - Anything Could Happen(Ellie Goulding cover in the Live Lounge) / the performance
- Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man (calming down & healing)
- Aldous Harding - Horizon - Later… with Jools Holland - BBC Two (the performance as a whole)
- (the whole audiovisual thing) Aldous Harding - The Barrel (Official Video)
- entertaining:
- ("One key to Straus’s appeal is that no matter how explicitly her songs celebrate (or mock) the queer experience […]" + another magazine described her in person as a mix of sassy banter and self-deprecation)
- (some visuals in the video are just genius) King Princess - Holy (Official Video)
- King Princess - Talia (Official Video)
- King Princess - Sunburn
- (some visuals in the video are just genius) King Princess - Cheap Queen (Official Video)
- (a return from autumn) LP - Muddy Waters [Live Session] on Youtube
- Clairo - Bags (discovered via The Guardian' weekly thingy) - seems like a good fit for sleepy summer weather & being underslept; is great for recharging between textbook reading sessions in hot weather
2018:
(as performances + cinematic experience, seen on Youtube; were a perfect match for late-autumn moods/sensibilities, that typical crying-inside state)
- LP - Muddy Waters [Live Session]
- LP - Lost On You [Live Session]
- LP - Recovery (Official Video)
- LP - "Forever For Now" (Live In Sun King Studio 92 Powered By Klipsch Audio)
for listening on repeat:
2017:
- (rediscovered via an old diary entry) Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
- son lux - easy (rediscovery from 2016 - heard it in Mon roi (2015, France, dir. Maïwenn)
Favorite new tunes heard in 2015
- Carter Burwell - Carol (opening theme)
- Florida - Good Feeling
- Sigma feat. Paloma Faith – Changing
- Hozier - Sedated
- (great for productivity) Fifth Harmony, Kid Ink - Worth It
- Diplo - Revolution
- Niaz Diasamidze - Mandariinid (movie OST, haven't seen the movie)
- Bjork - Atom Dance
- Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (because when listened to on-repeat it inevitably improves my mood; and I've never been able to listen her songs at all)
- Thomas Newman - Whisper of a Thrill
Favorite new tunes heard in 2014
- raise my spirits, but also numbs down
- Nina Simone - Do I Move You.
- journaling & warming up (but do dwell on it!)
- Tango with Lions - In a Bar
- Warpaint - Keep It Healthy. Is unhealthy for me.
- The Heavy - What Makes A Good Man (radio version - with a fast start)
- Icona Pop - We Got The World
- Asaf Avidan - Your Anchor ("no babe, you're just afraid" line re. "love" is oh my god). Is unhealthy for me.
- Daughter - Human, although it seems I just got it again in 2014 and discovered earlier. Is unhealthy for me.
- Ramona Lisa - Dominic
Favorite songs from BITWC soundtrack:
- Live for Today - Chick, Winslow, Walsh
- Take Care - Beach House