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Taste

Production: Burial, Crystal Castles, Negative Gemini

Melancholy: Duster, Soft Blade, Kedr Livanskiy

Voice: Frank Ocean

Bands: The Strokes, Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Car Seat Headrest

Artist: Kanye West

Favourite albums

  • Heaven or Las Vegas: the sound of a band under strain somehow making its best record.
  • Yeezus: abrasive, arrogant, and impossible to ignore.
  • Negro Swan: smooth, restrained, and precise.
  • Twin Fantasy: a long, messy monologue that still feels private when it is loud.
  • Blonde: the record I carried through my teenage years.
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber: colourful, naïve, and carefree without feeling slight.
  • Velocity : Design : Comfort: a dense, absurdly detailed version of the future.
  • Once Twice Melody: Beach House at their most beautiful and mythic.
  • Deathmetal: dreamy, weightless, and strangely comforting.
  • Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time: a concept album that feels like a childhood adventure story.
  • January Sun: possibly the album I have listened to most; I found it at exactly the right melancholy moment.