Music in June 2025
The score to Sally Potter’s 1992 Virginia Woolf adaptation Orlando is exuberant and exultant and I love it.
The nice thing about artists like Reol is I can put them on when I want loud shouty music, but not in English, because that would distract from my work.
Modern English is a favorite of mine, and Let’s All Dream is a good reminder to “get back to being human.”
All Day Long has a wonderful bridge that just glows and shimmers.
There’s a strangely contented yearning at the core of most of Humbert Humbert’s work that makes it irreplaceable.
Oats We Sow is a beautiful expression of the tragedy of our own hearts.
Take It on Faith has such an aggressive melody, and it makes me want to move back to the Southwest.
I am just discovering Rilo Kiley, and I’m kind of surprised I didn’t sooner, given how much I like it.
Of course The Beths are back on my playlist, but they aren’t the only artist from down under – Montaigne put out the wonderful album it’s hard to be a fish this year.
I’m not sure I can explain why Beth’s Farm is so affecting for being such an odd song, but it is.
Everybody Laughs is a wonderful way to respond playfully to life.
