Time For More
Another year, another 12 mixtapes coming at you. Thanks as always for being on this newsletter. Thanks for sharing with friends. Thanks for listening.
I'm on a beach in Hawaii right now getting the best sunburn of my life. I'll see y'all again February 1 with another mixtape. Hope your holidays were amazing and 2023 brings great things!
My 2023 update? I started shooting bad film photography, and this month's artwork is a collage of bad photos I've taken from my first roll of film. I love it.
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Created for more music, light, sound, life, love, dance.
Full disclosure: I've had this one in the bank for a few months. I've been slowly piecing it together for at least a year. It's a spiritual successor to my SOPHIE love letter mixtape from 2021, LOUDEST BRIGHTEST THING. It is all of those things. It is a collection of songs that demand to be played loud, that constantly give you more.
I miss loud dance parties, and this is how I recapture some of those feelings on late night train rides home after a night out. Maybe it'll resurrect some of that joy for you too.
Love you all. Hope you enjoy!
Join Me: Read a 33 1/3 Book
Kristin got me a couple 33 1/3 books for Christmas, including the above Donna Summer's Once Upon A Time. I love these books. If you've never read them, think of them as expanded liner notes. An author does a deep dive on a record. They range from extremely personal essays to historical perspectives to bits of fiction thematically tied to the record.
A few favorites include Merle Haggard's Okie From Muskogee, Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love, and Cat Power's Moon Pix.
RIYL: books about music, intensely studying an artist's Wikipedia page, personal essays
Check out Donna Summer's "I Love You".
Some 2022 Records That Brady Loves
(that you might love too!)
God Save The Animals - Have not been able to stop listening to Alex G's record God Save The Animals. It's wild and weird and beautiful. There is a song that sounds like Korn but in a good way. I mostly listen to old music these days, because there's so much to discover, so I don't keep up with new stuff as much as I used to, but I've kept coming back to this one. Probably my favorite record of the year.
White Trash Revelry - Maybe the most exciting artist in country music right now, in my opinion, Adeem the Artist is blowing up. It's nice to hear country music from a non-binary pansexual's perspective (one you don't see too much in roots music...yet!). We need more queer voices in country music, especially if they write songs that could've been penned by John Prine.
learn 2 swim - My buddy Fabrice sent me the redveil record a month or so back, and it hit me right away. Reminded me of the same feeling I got when discovering early Joey Bada$$ and Vic Mensa mixtapes.
Timewave Zero - The metal band Blood Incantation's record is an analog synth dream. Atmospheric horror soundtrack a la John Carpenter fans are going to love this.