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january 4, 2026
Some things don't need explanation. They just exist, perfect and complete. This is one of those things.
Scotch & Murder Music gloriously returns after a 10-year hiatus, making discerning tastemaker music curation great again.
Taste Makers
Taste is not democratic. It never was. The flattening of culture into algorithmic recommendation engines has convinced a generation that all preferences are equally valid. They are not.
Playlists
2am existential crisis companion
For when the walls start talking and you need something to drown them out. Mostly minor keys. Mostly accurate to whatever you're feeling right now. Don't listen to this in public unless you want strangers to ask if you're okay.
Brooklyn 2009
The year before everything got expensive. When you could still afford to be a struggling musician in Williamsburg. When blogs still mattered and MGMT had just released Oracular Spectacular. We didn't know how good we had it.
driving through nowhere at night
Highway hypnosis music. The kind of songs that make six hours feel like two. Best experienced with the windows cracked and a gas station coffee in the cupholder. If you've never driven through Nevada at 3am you're missing something important.
songs that make you feel like the main character
For walking through the city like you're in a movie about your own life. The cinematography is excellent even if the plot is questionable. Warning: may cause spontaneous dramatic gestures.
On Cinema
Film and music have always been inseparable. The right soundtrack doesn't just accompany a scene, it becomes the memory. We watch movies for the images but we remember them for the sounds.
This is where we talk about the films that understood this. The directors who knew that silence could be louder than any score. The composers who made us feel things the dialogue never could.
cliff martinez made drive feel like a fever dream
january 4, 2026
Nightcall by Kavinsky opens the film and sets the tone for everything that follows. Martinez's score is all tension and synthesizers, the sound of neon reflecting off wet pavement. Refn understood that the music was doing half the storytelling.
trent reznor and atticus ross redefined what film scores could be
january 2, 2026
The Social Network score shouldn't work. It's cold, electronic, relentless. But that's exactly what the story needed. Fincher found the perfect collaborators in two industrial musicians who understood that sometimes the score should make you uncomfortable.
jonny greenwood's there will be blood score is orchestral violence
december 30, 2025
Radiohead's guitarist turned film composer and created something that sounds like the earth splitting open. PTA gave him complete freedom and got back music that feels ancient and modern simultaneously. The strings don't soar. They scrape.
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