Good stuff in 2021 #
Happy New Year. Here’s a short retrospective on some of the things I enjoyed in 2021 (the last post like this I did was for 2018!).
Music
As usual I’ve listened to a lot of different stuff this year. I’ve really been getting into more jazz. Here are some of my favorites:
- Prayer - In your arms (Hooversound Recordings)
- V/A - DJ Kicks: Special Request (!K7 Music)
- Kessler - Ambivalent (Shall Not Fade)
- Madlib - Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
- Skee Mask - Pool (Ilian Tape)
- SCALPING - Flood (Houndstooth)
- Lixo - Reuptake (GETME!)
- Turnstile - TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION (Roadrunner Records)
- DJ Manny - Signals in my head (Planet Mu)
- False Persona - Unknown Variable (Atomic Alert)
- Anthony Naples - Chamelon (ANS Recordings)
- Lone - Always inside your head (Greco-Roman Ltd)
- Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1 (Hinge Finger under exclusive license to XL Recordings)
- Sky H1 - Azure (AD 93)
- Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (Warp)
- Otik - Soulo EP (3024 Music)
Each release, except Skee Mask’s Pool, is in my Spotify playlist Top 15 releases 2021
Movies
- Offret
- Stalker
- Lighthouse
- The French Dispatch
- Dune
Books
- Svilen Gospodinov - Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir
- Geoff Dyer - Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
- Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
- Olga Tokarczuk - Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Gigs
:(
Exhibitions
- Tobias Gremmler - The changing room, at Fotografiska (Stockholm)
Skateboard films
- Bronze56k - The reuben
- Palace - Beyond the third wave
- Quasi - Grand Prairie
- John’s Vid
- The Hit Video
TV series
- Yasuke
- Squid game
- Mandalorian
- Loki
- Chernobyl (I know, late to the party)
Misc
- Disco Elysium (video game)
- Big bird (restaurant)
- Bandcamp (online record store)
- Stigbergets skateshop (skatehop)
- Stigbergets bryggeri (brewery)
- Fria viner (wine shop)
- Morgon coffee roasters (coffee)