Lovely that Friday has been graced with "Disco Nap," a pleasant collabo between Polo & Pan and Metronomy.
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Friday, January 10, 2025
disco nap
Lovely that Friday has been graced with "Disco Nap," a pleasant collabo between Polo & Pan and Metronomy.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
writhing in the wind
I'm looking forward to serpentwithfeet's next record GRIP SEQUEL, a follow-up to GRIP, which drops February 28th.
Here is a short, breezy track that just dropped, "WRITHING IN THE WIND."
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
orlando in love
The much-anticipated new album from Japanese Breakfast is scheduled to drop March 21st.
Their new track, "Orlando in Love," per press release is "a riff on John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo—the hero is a well meaning poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren’s call."
Friday, January 3, 2025
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
jeffery berg's top 10 albums of 2024!
Here goes my Top 10 Albums of 2024!
10.
Stellar musicianship! Stirring and delightfully volatile.
9.
Impressively-mounted (especially for a debut!), operatic, wide-ranging rock record.
8.
Smooth, dreamy, Sade-esque tracks from Glasgow-based ambient pop trio.
7.
Legendary producer / DJ crafts a rich, enveloping piano boogie dance album. "Fly Away," a partial cover of Stevie Wonder's "As", soars.
6.
Big, sweeping, melodic synthpop tunes from the Los Angeles duo.
5.
Clubby, earworm glo-pop ride for an increasingly automated world.
4.
Fun, spicy confection from the French electro-swing group.
3.
Starts off with a bang with the riveting "American Requiem," then nestles into one of the great Beatles' covers. A diverse, rambling epic, a reclamation of and play with genre.
2.
A hooky, sparkly, and disarmingly affecting album.
1.
Pet Shop Boys are still going strong with this unclockable set of fresh, wise, melancholic dance-pop disco.
Check out my Top 10 Singles of 2024 here.
A look back to the Top 10 Albums of 2023 where Jessie Ware reigned.
My epic Spotify playlist of 2024 favorite tracks here & below.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
jeffery berg's top 10 singles of 2024!
Farewell to 2024.
Here are my Top 10 Singles of the year.
10.
"Caesar on a TV Screen"
Dramatic, torchy howl.
9.
"Cry for Me"
Tragic, magic tempest.
8.
"Connect"
Kinetic piano whirlwind.
7.
"Good Luck, Babe!"
Groovy, Doobie world-stopper.
6.
"The End of the Contender"
Toxic masculinity crusher.
5.
"Monopoly"
Crystalline electropop perfection.
4.
"Nostalgia"
Haunted, cheery pop-rock.
3.
"Why am I dancing?"
Towering disco inferno.
2.
"Not Like Us"
Anthemic diss track.
1.
"Affection"
Simple done well.
Friday, December 20, 2024
film-forward's best of 2024 list
Film-Forward's Best of 2024 list is now live.
I wrote on the eye-opening documentary No Other Land and the riveting The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Both highlights of the year for me.