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An Ongoing List of
Transformative Albums


2024
  1. January Juice
  2. Fraught February
  3. March Multiples
  4. April Agitprop
  5. May Momentum
  6. Jaded June
  7. July Jacket
  8. August Aubergines
  9. September Solitude


2023
  1. January Junior
  2. February Felt
  3. March Molecules
  4. April Afternoons
  5. May Maybe
  6. Jammy June
  7. July Jeunesse
  8. Auspicious August
  9. September Support
  10. October Oppression
  11. November Nausea
  12. Deafening December

Album Discoveries of 2023


2022
  1. January Jacaranda
  2. February Faultlines
  3. March Mouthfuls
  4. April Anguish
  5. Mercurial May
  6. June Jaws
  7. July Jargon
  8. Autoecious August
  9. Sultry September
  10. Oh October
  11. November Naps
  12. December Deluge*

Album Discoveries of 2022
Favorite Songs of 2022

2021
  1. January Jitters
  2. February Freezeframe
  3. March Me-Time
  4. April Accomplishments
  5. May Milestones
  6. June Jubilees
  7. July Jabronis
  8. August Optimism
  9. September Slams*
  10. Olympian October
  11. November Nerves
  12. December Differences

Album Discoveries of 2021
Favorite Songs of 2021


2020
  1. January Jukes
  2. February Floss
  3. March Minefields
    Special Edition: It’s a [Pandemic] Mood
  4. April Anxiety*
  5. May Morbidities
  6. June, Fuck the Police
  7. July Jackals
  8. August Obsolescence
  9. September Shame
  10. October Offal
  11. No Good November
  12. December Doldrums

Album Discoveries of 2020
Favorite Songs of 2020


2019
  1. January Jeux
  2. February Fissures
  3. March Mission
  4. April Angst
  5. May Mouthfuls*
  6. June Joie de Vivre/Long Ass Road Trip
  7. July Jostling
  8. Gusting August
  9. Sumptuous September
  10. October Operations
  11. November Nonchalance
  12. December Depths

Album Discoveries of 2019

2018
  1. January Jaunts
  2. February Feels
  3. Muffled March
  4. April Always
  5. May Movement
  6. June Joy
  7. July Jiggles
  8. Autonomous August
  9. Sullen September
  10. October Opportunities
  11. November Nihilism
  12. December Doubts

Favorite Songs of 2018
Album Discoveries of 2018

2017
  1. January Jalousie
  2. February Fellowship
  3. March Motions
  4. April Agitation
  5. May Mirages
  6. June Jouets
  7. July Journeys
  8. August Alternatives
  9. September Stylings
  10. October Openings
  11. November Nothings
  12. December Downs

Album Discoveries of 2017


2016
  1. Justification January
  2. February Faltering
  3. March Meltdowns
  4. April Afternoons
  5. May Melodies
  6. June Jawns
  7. July Jabs
  8. August Auras
  9. September Spirit
  10. October Offerings
  11. November Nocturnes
  12. December Downs

Album Discoveries of 2016


2015
  1. January Jonesing
  2. February Freedom
  3. March Madness
  4. April Adventure
  5. May Moods
  6. Jupiter June
  7. Jittery July
  8. August Augurings
  9. September Steppings
  10. Official October
  11. Neural November
  12. Daily December


2014
  1. January Jams
  2. Feelings of February
  3. Marching On
  4. April Fools
  5. May You Always Be Happy
  6. June Bugs
  7. Jumping July
  8. Anaphylactic August
  9. September Shine
  10. Honest October
  11. Now Now November
  12. December Deals


2013
   10. Eat It October
   11. November News


Music Therapy


Glow Old is a creative practice that began in 2009. It started with a CD-R.
Mark


AN ONGOING LIST OF TRANSFORMATIVE MUSIC




Brooklyn, NY 2021

By no means exhaustive, these are pieces of music that are deeply important to me in one way or another. Genres are indications. May you find something new here!

Rock/Alternative/Indie

The Velvet Underground - S/T & Nico (1967)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)
Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (1982)
The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me (1987)
Galaxie 500 - Today & On Fire (1988 & 1989)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (1994)
Low - I Could Live in Hope (1994)
Björk - Debut (1993)
Portishead - Portishead (1997)
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997)
Tortoise - TNT (1998)
Fugazi - End Hits (1998)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (2001)
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001)
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005)
No Age - Weirdo Rippers (2007)
Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited (2009)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest & Microcastle (2010 & 2008)
Panda Bear - Tomboy (2011)
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (2019)
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022)
Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U (2024)

Hip-Hop/Rap

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers (1993)
Nas - Illmatic (1994)
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (1995)
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - BlackStar (1998)
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides (1999)
Outkast - ATLiens (1996) & Stankonia (2000)
Shyheim - Manchild (1999)
Common - Be (2005)
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
Young Thug - Barter 6 (2015)

Electronic

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (1995)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (2005)
J Dilla - Donuts (2006)
Burial - Untrue (2007)
Caribou - Andorra (2007)
Gang Gang Dance - God’s Money & Saint Dymphna (2005 & 2008)
Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers (2010)
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems & Faith in Strangers (2012 & 2014)

Experimental/Ambient

Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Dreams (1978)
Brian Eno - Music for Airports (1978)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
Boredoms - Super Ae & Vision Creation Newsun (1998 & 1999)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (2004)
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008)
Sun O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (2009)
Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art (2014)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Perpetual (2015)
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time (2016-2019)
Nils Frahm - All Melody (2018)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & alva noto - Two (Live at Sydney Opera House) (2019)

Jazz

Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin’ (1959)
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow is the Question! (1959)
Miles Davis - Workin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet (1960)
Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Mahmoud Ahmed - Mahmoud Ahmed (1975)
Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah (1977)
Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om (1999)

Folk

Doc Watson - S/T (1964)
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)
Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (1973)
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (2001)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)

Brazilian/Latin

Astrud Gilberto - The Shadow of Your Smile (1965)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968)
Milton Nascimento - Clube da Esquina (1972)
Jorge Ben Jor - A Tabua De Esmerelda (1974)

Classical

Bach - Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations (1955 & 1981)
Giussepe Verdi - Aïda (Maria Callas 1956)
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1978)
Philip Glass - Piano Études / Solo Piano (1994 & 2003)
John Cage - Works for Prepared Piano (1991)
Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (2012)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru (2016)
Johann Johannsson - Orphée & Arrival OST (both 2016)
Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (2021)

Dub/Reggae

The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (1973)
Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston (1973)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire (1973)
Keith Hudson - Playing it Cool (1975)


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