PLAYLIST: I Know What I Missed Last Summer
By: Emily Holtzman, Assistant Editor-In-Chief/Total Slacker
All the music I should have listened to over the summer when I was being apathetic:
Every once in a while (actually, this is starting to happen more frequently) I find myself in somewhat of a listening rut. I will listen to the same three or four artists over and over, and will refuse to pay attention to any new releases.
Unfortunately for me, I was in this rut for the entirety of this past summer. I would scroll past any mentions of new artists or album reviews, thinking to myself, How about I listen to Last Splash (by The Breeders) again? I was apathetic to anything new – I didn’t even listen to all of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories until at least a month after it came out, and I couldn’t pretend to even feign interest over Yeezus. It wasn’t until coming back to school in August and having a pretty pathetic conversation with a friend about Baths’ Obsidian, that I realized just how much I missed out on. (That conversation went something like this:
Me: “Have you heard the new Baths yet?”
Much Less Lazy Friend: “Uh, yes. It came out in May…”)
So, I decided it was time for me to backtrack and listen to everything that I was “too busy” to listen to over the summer. Listen below, and know that I have learned my lesson:
Baths: “Ossuary” from Obsidian (May)
Majical Cloudz: “Childhood’s End” Impersonator (May) (in my defense, I was really thrown off by this band’s name, they sound nothing like I thought they were going to.)
Disclosure: “Defeated No More” Settle (May)
Fuck Buttons: “The Red Wing” Slow Focus (July)
No Age: “No Ground” An Object (August)
King Krule: “Neptune Estate” 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (August)
Dirty Beaches: “Night Walk” Drifters / Love Is the Devil (May)
Julianna Barwick: “Look Into Your Own Mind” Nepenthe (August)
Hunx & His Punx: “Born Blonde” Street Punk (July)
Laura Marling: “Breathe” Once I was an Eagle (June)
Pure X: “Thousand Year Old Child” Crawling Up the Stairs (May)
The Pastels: “Check My Heart” Slow Summits (May)
You can stream the whole thang below via 8Tracks
Emily is Originally from St. Louis, MO (cue Nelly lyric) and majoring in English & International Studies. You can hear her play music’s greatest ladies every Wednesday from 8-10pm on Who Run the World? Thanks to our cool new website, I now get to combine my two greatest pastimes: opinions about music and writing.
Contact Info:
emh6g7@mail.missouri.edu