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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s sort of a straw man on here, but I have heard people say, in real life, unironically, (to my face!) “there’s no good music anymore.” And to that idea, I would like to say, here are 65 albums released in 2026 that I like a lot:

- Aksumi - Terra Incognita (jazz)
- Aldous Harding - Train on the Island (indie pop)
- Anjimile - You're Free To Go (indie folk/r&b)
- Black Beach - Mail Thief (post punk)
- Chiaré - Sei (EP) (Italian Jazz pop)
- Christopher Hoffman - REX (Jazz, instrumental rock)
- Crack Cloud - Peace and Purpose (diy punk)
- Daniel Bachman - Revolutions (ambient drone)
- dälek - Brilliance of a Falling Moon (alt hip-hop)
- David Moore - Graze the Bell
- Duendita - existential thottie (indie experimental)
- evilgiane - Giane 2 (electronic ambient)
- Eyes of Salt - Collapse of the Infinite (hardcore)
- Genesis Owusu - Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge (funk punk rap)
- Gladie - No Need to be Lonely (alt rock)
- Grandma's House - Baby You're a Winner (grunge, post-punk)
- Hana Stretton - tiarn (experimental, ambient, light singing)
- Heavensouls - Cantu of the Sower (experimental noise hip hop pop)
- heavensouls - Westside trapped (experimental dance hall)

- Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto -
Fifteen (experimental jazz)
- Hooky - molly picture (indie electronic rock)
- Jana Horn - Jana Horn (indie electrofolk)
- Juni Habel - Evergreen in Your Mind (folk)
- Katherine Priddy - These Frightening
Machines (folk rock)
- Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere (country)
- Ken Ueno- Wavelengths (minimalist / classical / percussion)
- Kronos Quartet: Glorious Mahalia (Interviews, instrumental beds)
- La Doña - Corrientes (new Latin folk hop)
- Late Era, Oatmello - In a Cabin in the Snow (ambient)
- Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way
- Lotte - Lotte (cool German Pop)
- Mandy, Indiana - URGH (experimental noise rock)
- Melanie Baker - Somebody Help Me, I'm Being Spontaneous! (Alt rock pop)
- Midwest Post Death - post recovery (indie rock)
- Nina Winder-Lind - Wild Love (experimental pop)
- Nils Petter Molvær - Be Quiet
- Of the Trees - Moonglade Park (electronic experimental downtempo chill hop)

- Otro - Peanut Ballads For A Lone Star (ambient experimental guitar)
- Oxis - Oxis 8 (indietronica)
- Paris Paloma - The Fatal Flaw
- Private Wives- Three of Swords (all girl garage punk / grunge)
- Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops (rap, spoken word)
- Remember Sports - The Refrigerator (indie emo girl punk)
- SAULT - Chapter 1 (neo soul)
- Sarah Julia - The Fear that This is Real
- Sean Solomon - The world is not good enough (emo pop)
- Sideshow - Tigray Funk (hip-hop)
- Slow Fiction - dollhouse (alt rock)
- Spill tab - AngieAngieAngie (indie pop rock)
- Student1 - Truant (lofi hip hop)
- Tasha - You are Spring! (Indie folk)
- The Lemon Twigs - Look For Your Mind!
(Indie pop rock)
- The Lowest Pair - Always As Young As We'll Ever Be (folk)
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis -
Deface The Currency (really good jazz)
- The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in
Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore (experimental pop)
- Theorema - Theorema (experimental jazz)
- Tomatsugo Nakamura and David Cordero -
Aware (ambient)

- Ulrika Spacek - EXPO (post-punk, art-rock)
- Various Artists - HELP(2) (incredible charity compilation of new songs)
- Walker yancey - i'm a teenage rice field (experimental pop)
- Wendy Eisenberg - Wendy Eisenberg
(experimental Folk)
- Wild Up - Julius Eastman Vol.5: Gay Guerrilla (classical/jazz)
- WILLOW - petal rock black (jazz, soul)
- Wormy - Shark River (indie electronic emo rock)
- Zoh Amba - Eyes Full

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Twelve albums I enjoyed last week:

Lily Seabird - lightspheres on Their Way.
Tony Bontana - Tumpic 3 (Deluxe)
Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth - Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth
Endless Wellness - Nur das Beste
Shapes Like People - Under the Rainbow
Allison Russell - In the Hour of Chaos
Stef Chura - Dancing Alone on the Concrete
Daniel Bachman - The Witness Tree
Annahstasia - Live at Glasshaus
Helen - Linda's Head
Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My view at the moment. I’m still sick, but I’m wrapped up and sitting outside with a book and it’s the closest to ok I’ve felt all week.

View of tress and distant mountains from under a covered deck. The sky is cloudy.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The problem with working at a 24hr center is that sometimes I get pulled to work a late shift, and then it takes me hours to actually chill out enough to go to sleep after. So tired, yet also wired. It’s ok, brain. You can stop now. (I drew this animation a while back.)

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think the art/craft I’m proudest of in my whole life was this anthology I printed and hand-bound for my niece. I even sewed in real headbands to finish it (if you know bookbinding, you get why that’s cool). I’m very much a diy amateur, but I was really happy with this one.

An open book with hot pink end papers and a title page that reads: Diamonds Under
Your Feet
An Anthology of Words, Poems and Stories for Martha Jane

A book open to the table of contents:

Contents
Forward
Useful Phrases in Lugondo
Greetings & Civilities
Fomily...
Feelings...
Some Useful Phroses...
Language Problerns..
Nursery Rhyme...
Poems..
little prayer
Maple Valley Branch Library. 1967
No Man is an Island
La Vie C'est La Vie
I'm Rooting for Everybody Black I Am In Need of Music..
Sympathy..
maggie and milly and molly and may... to the notebook kid...
This is Just to Say

A closed book with black and white paisley cloth cover and pink and black threaded headbands inside the ends of the spine.

The edge of an open book showing the black and white paisley cloth cover, the pink end papers and the pink and black threaded headband.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spent the last of my Canadian cash at the airport today, getting my ten-year-old Docs polished at a shoeshine stand. Well worth it! They don’t exactly look new, but they look a lot fresher than they did before!

Lookong down at feet clad in shiny, cherry-red high top Doc Martens under brown corduroy pants

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vancouver’s downtown area, lit up, is really beautiful.

The skyline of part of downtown Vancouver near the Westin Bayshore hotel. Many tall glass buildings have individual square windows lit up against a dark blue sky, with water and boats visible on the left side.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vancouver was just astonishingly pretty today.

A square pool of water reflects a flat white building with white squares on its side with multiple glass building behind it.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Riding the ferry. (I asked a stranger to take my picture and it turned out he’s a professional photographer. I don’t like many pictures of myself, but I like this one.)

A figure in dark jeans and a green raincoat stand on the upper deck of a ferry boat with water, clouds, sun and low mountains behind.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saying goodbye to this wonderful tiny cabin where I’ve stayed for the past few nights while on The Sunshine Coast.

A very small shingle-sided cabin with a red door and green front steps surrounded by trees.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The coolest thing about learning about mushrooms is that I’m noticing them everywhere. I saw these while walking around today.

Bright red round mushrooms with white bulbs, on the ground among dead leaves and green grass.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went mushroom foraging yesterday, with a professional guide. We didn’t find all that many edible mushrooms, but it was really fun to learn about a few and explore the temperate rainforest.

Maritime forest with tall trees creating a cainomy and many fallen trees on beds of green moss. A figure with a long beard wearing layers and a raincoat speaks to a group whose heats are just visible.

A hand with grey fingernails holds a large yellow/orange chanterelle mushroom.

Tall red-toned straight tree trunks with bright green leaves and needles at the time. Bright green moss on the ground.

Large mushrooms growing on a fallen log on a bed of green ferns.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another sticker, Roberts Creek, BC

Pre-printed sticker in the style of a dictionary entry:

prescind verb prih-SIND
1. to withdraw one's attention
2. to detach for purposes of thought

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sticker on a pole in Roberts Creek, BC

A bent rectangular sticker with handwritten words on the left and a stretched-out hour-glass shaped line drawing of a green trash can. The words says: Don’t know why they didn’t make trash cans colorful.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Twelve albums I listened to last week:

A four by three grid of album covers:

Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night
Krallice - Scour Order
Le Motel - Pozo de Agua
Kunzite - SECRETS
Philip Glass, Camille Thomas - Philip Glass for cello
Emma Ruth Rundle - These Killing Times
GOAT FARM - Are We Damned?
Biita Houdei - This Bed Was Made For Me
Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere
Rhiannon Giddens - Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Jake Xerxes Fussell - The Old Beloved Path
Lizzy McAlpine - Angel

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t post a lot of food pcs, but this French toast I had this morning from a restaurant called Palate in Downtown Vancouver was the most amazing I’ve ever had. I’m ruined for all others forever.

Theee very thick, crispy, golden slices of French toast on a round white plate with strawberries and blueberries around the bottom and topped with a Physalis (gooseberry)

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spot the seagull. (Hey, I’m in Vancouver!)

A white seagull stand on the middle landing of wide, brightly-painted concrete stars.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“…you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be…But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.” Haruki Haruki Murakami from Kafka on the Shore:

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.
So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
That's what this storm's all about.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Twelve albums I listened to last week.

Otro - SurVive
Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope
Pretty Sick - Anarchy
halfway up a jagged hill - HUAJH
Sylvan Esso - Ow (infinity symbol)
Bonobo - Distance in Static
Melanie Baker - Somebody Help Me, I’m Being Spontaneous
Loraine James - It's Nothing Personal
Joshua Burnside - It's Not Going To Be Okay
Angela Autumn - Believer
Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere
Madi Diaz - Fatal Optimist (UN-unplugged)

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here are some of the new releases out this week that I’m interested to hear. What am I missing that you all are excited for?

9/18
• Adam Wiltzie, Johann Johansson -
Friendship Survival Guide
• beabadoobee - pylon
• Beck - Ride Lonesome
• Camille Thomas - Philip Glass for cello
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night
• Jake Xerxes Fussell - The Old Beloved Path
• Krallice - Scour Order
• Kristin Hersh - Sugar on Blackstone
• KUNZITE - SECRETS
• Lizzy McAlpine - Angel
• Palmyra - Cheap Beer
• Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
• Roomer - Staircase Made Of Rope
• Wasia Project - Nocturne
• Winter - Romantix Mixtape
• YENDRY - Como agua

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy birthday to @retiredatlatc.bsky.social, the greatest travel mate, hiking partner, dog wrangler, baker, vintage clothing shopper and spouse I could ever have dreamed of.

Photo of the arms and clasped hands of two people. The person on the left wears a dark blue dress. Person on the right has on a blue shirt and a watch. They are standing in front of a turquoise green wall.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I liked Romeo + Juliet fine when it came out, then soured on it upon rewatching ten years ago. I came all the way back around watching it tonight. What a movie! It’s a story I’ve read and seen a thousand times, but I was fully vibrating at this version’s frequency this time. Loved it.

Still image from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet of the actor Harold Perrineau in a favoulous white bra and skirt with garters and elbow length gloves md a cape, plus a curly white wig, posed in the middle of dancing in a mansion in front of a giant painting. a

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw some repost-bait about the first bar you drank at after turning legal age and it got me thinking about The Northside Tavern in Atlanta and what a community that place later became for spouse and me both. Here’s Cory blowing fire on a slow evening before the crowds got there, circa 2010.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve shared versions of my weekly log/journal before, but I like my current iteration. Especially when I’m feeling overwhelmed, setting this up every week makes me feel like I’m still tethered to some solid reality.

An open dot journal with hand drawn boxes for each day of the week.wothin ea h days box are several smaller empty boxes.

In the upper left is this week’s dates (September 13-19 2026), then spaces for “try this”, “intention” and “remember”.

On the bottom right is a grid for the seven days of the week and of things that’s are blurred out. Not blurred out are “meditate” “exercise” and “stretch”. Around the grid are spaces for “Overall Mood”
“Total Exercise Minutes”
“Average Sleep Per Night:”
“Total Meditation Minutes”
“Good:”
“Bad:”
“Hard:”
“Easy”
“What Helped:”
“Try this update:”
“Try this next week:”

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I woke up feeling overwhelmed and with a headache, so I sat out on the porch in the dark and quiet and watched it slowly get light behind the dense fog. Crows, chickadees, woodpeckers, tree frogs are making a great racket now. It’s wonderful.

A photo take from inside a dark screen porch of a deck with trees and fog behind it. Some colorful small flags hang across the deck in the left hand upper corner. It all looks kind of wet.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m way behind on music listening, but here are six albums I enjoyed last week. What’s out today that y’all are excited about? I haven’t had a chance to look.

Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
Madi Diaz - Fatal Optimist (UN-unplugged)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Paris Paloma - The Fatal Flaw
Zoh Amba - Eyes Full
03 Greedo - Last Night Out

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have to get up early and I’m terrified of turning my alarm off and going back to sleep without fully realizing it.

Screenshot from the alarm app of a smartphone.

Sleep | Wake Up
5:00AM
Tomorrow Only
5:02AM
You're Still Alive!!!!
5:04AM
You can do this! You have to get up now!
5:05AM
You need to leave for work in 40 minutes.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I finished Mrs. Dalloway: the third time I’ve read it, but the first in over a decade. What a stunning book.

A kobo e-reader displaying the cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, held in a hand outside.

Text from Mrs. Dalloway: in the army." Oh! thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party, here's death, she thought.

Text from Mrs. Dalloway: Then (she had felt it only this morning) there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely; there was in the depths of her heart an awful fear. Even now,

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I drew a little animation for the end of my weekend. Painting the breath: a 4-6-7 breathing guide. (for best results, let it loop for a bit)

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I got to meet Saul Williams a few years back. He has an enormous presence and I almost started crying while we spoke. I showed him my commonplace book where I’d written out his words to “Release” and asked him if he’d sign the next page. This is what he signed:

Small hand-printing in black and red pen on two blank notebook pages:
Inner breathlessness, outer restlessness
By the time I caught up to freedom I was out of breath
Grandma asked me what I'm running for
I guess I'm out for the same thing the sun is sunning for
What mothers birth their youngens for
And some say Jesus coming for
For all I know the earth is spinning slow
Suns at half mast 'cause masses ain't aglow
On bended knee, prostrate before an altered tree
I've made the forest suit me
Tables and chairs
Papers and prayers
Matter versus spirit
A metal ladder
A wooden cross
A plastic bottle of water
A mandala encased in glass
A spirit encased in flesh
Sound from shaped hollows
The thickest of mucus released from heightened passion
A man that cries in his sleep
A truth that has gone out of fashion
A mode of expression
A paint splattered wall
A carton of cigarettes
A bouquet of corpses
A dying forest
A nurtured garden
A privatized prison
A candle with a broken wick
A puddle that reflects the sun
A piece of paper with my name on it
I'm surrounded
I surrender
All
All that I am I have been
All I have been has been a long time coming
I am becoming all that I am
The spittle that surrounds the mouth-piece of the flute
Unheard, yet felt
A gathered wetness
A quiet moisture
Sound trapped in a bubble
Released into wind
Wind fellows and land merchants
We are history's detergent
Water soluble, light particles, articles of cleansing breath
Articles amending death
These words are not tools of communication
They are shards of metal
Dropped from eight story windows
They are waterfalls and gas leaks
Aged thoughts rolled in tobacco leaf
The tools of a trade
Barbers barred, barred of barters
Catch phrases and misunderstandings
But they are not what I feel when I am alone
Surrounded by everything and nothing
And there isn't a word or phrase to be caught
A verse to be recited
A man to de-fill my being in those moments
I am blankness, the contained center of an "O"
The pyramidic containm…

Green sharpie written on the left hand page of a blank notebook:

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes SW

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some of the albums out today that I’m interested to hear. Anyone else excited for any particular albums at the moment?

8/28
• Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming
• Asher White - Love Aggregates
• Billy Strings - So Much For Goodbyes
• Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative)
• Dinosaur Jr. - There Near
• Dogwood Tales - Every Star in Rockingham
County
• Floating Points, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra - Mere Mortals
• Generacion Suicida - Hombre Nuevo
• Hakushi Hasegawa - Honest Feeling Album
• Laura Somogi - a [time] patterned
• Lim - A Sunflower Garden In Harlem Is Hard To Find
• The Linda Lindas - Gotta Get Out
• midori jaeger - (Re)planted EP
• Miscreance, Reminiscence
• RUEN, The Tragedy of the Commons Sarah
• Davachi - The Will of Tongues
• Saul Williams - Leap Life
• Tiny Habits - Keepers

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I actually managed to listen to more albums than usual last week. Here are twelve of them.

A four by three grid of album covers:
Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio Zimmerman - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV9
AlexG - Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Lotte - Lotte
Grandmas House - Baby You're A Winner
Very Necessary - KEY! IS VERY NECESSARY
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats - ii
Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops
hey, nothing - Hound
Julian Glander - Boys Go to Jupiter (Original Soundtrack)
Henry’s Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - Fifteen

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My incomplete list of today’s new album releases that I’d like to hear:

8/21
• Alex G - Teenage Sex and Death at Camp
Miasma (Original Motion Picture Score)
• Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats - ii
• GB - Herzsprung
• Grandma's House - Baby You're a Winner
• Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto -
Fifteen
• Hey Nothing - Hound
• Lotte - Lotte
• Only Fire - Hoe Weekend
• Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops
• Squirrel Flower - Say a Prayer to the Gods of
Getting Going
• Tyondai Braxton - Splayed Werks
• Westside Cowboy - It Goes On

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Twelve albums I listened to last week:

A four by three grid of album
Covers:
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia
Channel Tres - Enigma POV
Duffyx Uhlmann - Hot Creek
SHOPFIRES - We Are Not There Bue We Are Here
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Grace Cummings - Bloodhorse!
Nina Winder-Lind - Wild Love
Hank Heaven - Welterweight
Cusk - CUSK
Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery
Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Summer sugar rush (mango sorbet + fresh raspberries)

Close up on a round white bowl holding a light yellow-orange sorbet and bright dark pink raspberries.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m finally opening my first Math Doodler Club snail mail puzzle from @makeaproblem.bsky.social. This is such a cool idea.

Papers on top of a wooden table: a folded paper napkin, a round sticker with the words “Math Doodlers Club August 2026” and a 3x3 grid with the number 1-9 in black and blue. Underneath that is a postcard mostly covered on top of a mostly covered handwritten letter over a larger sheet of paper with the heading “Math Doodlers Club - August 2026, Problem #1: Grid Orders” visible at the top. Next to all of that is the back of a brown envelope with a pretty ink stamp and a sticker that says “Do Not Bend Thank You”

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

After the rain, a little light

A hanging outdoor light bulb reflected in a puddle of water on a wooden deck.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“little prayer” by Danez Smith

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My 80-year-old mother is in the early stage of Alzheimer’s and it’s been a rough year for her, but painting is still her outlet and escape. I caught this photo of her today and I love it.

A grey and white haired woman stands at an easel, with one finger touching a mostly-completed painting of a beach. She is next to a bright window with several bright abstract paintings on the wall behind her and painting supplies on a dresser.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Now listening to one of my all-time favorite albums. It never disappoints. Perfectly itself.

Album cover of black and white image of a man in a short-brimmed hat and goatee on a blue background. Words: STEREO
COLUMBIA
MONK'S DREAM
THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET
MONK'S DREAM BODY AND SOUL
JUST A CIGOLO
SWEET AND LOVELY
BYE-YA
FIVE SPOT BLUES
BRIGHT MISSISSIPPE
BOLIVAR BLUES

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some of the albums out today I’d like to listen to:

8/14
Ada Lea - the end is a wave EP
Ayra Starr - Starrgirl
Becky G - BARAJA BANDITA
Channel Tres - Enigma POV
Cusk - Cusk EP
Dana and Alden - Papa's Boat
Duffy × Uhlmann - Hot Creek
Getdown Services - Massive Champion
Hank Heaven - Welterweight
Hayley Law - Last Summer
Hollie Kenniff, Kazuma Okabayasi - The Last Bright Place
Hovvdy - Big World
James Ellis Ford - Lost in Another World
Kiwi Jr. - Blowin' Up
L'Rain - fata morgana
Laura Viers - Temple Songs
Nina Winder-Lind - Wild Love
Open Mike Eagle, Kenny Segal - DOOMED!
Real Numbers - Was It Always This Way
Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticise

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Twelve albums I listened to last week: See previous posts for my (very positive) thoughts on Gladie. That Hana Stretton album was a knockout, and I’m not sure if I posted about Bon Odori’s beautiful ambient release or not, but it was great.

gladie - No Need To Be Lonely
Hana Stretton - tiarn
Uncle Tupelo - Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology
Baby Rose - YEARNALISM
Tenniscoats - Minat Soul
Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
Slow Fiction - dollhouse
God of War - molly picture
Joshua Burnside - It's Not Going To Be Okay
Margaret Glaspy - I Am Both
Bon Odori - Kimyo
Overmono - Pure Devotion

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Show me what you can do with just a pen!

An open sketchbook on a table with a black pen drawing of bare-branched trees with a large full moon behind them.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My spouse, who is a really good at gifts, gave me this worry stone. I’ve started carrying it around in my pocket and just sort of holding it in my hand at different points through out the day, and while I don’t think I believe in magical objects, there’s something really nice about it.

A pale hand holds a smooth, flat, circular striped stone between thumb and forefinger.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m reading Mrs. Dalloway on my lunch break. It’s been about a decade since the last time I read it and I forgot what a total pleasure it is. It flows over you like water.

A Kobo branded e-reader showing the cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf on the screen, being held in hand on a wooden porch outside.

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