Find an album to match your mood

and discover a j-pop group that loves aliens

party dip’s 2024 year-end special coverage

You’ll find no extra heavy hitter albums¹ . This is like the awkward-smart-alternative side of the lunch table. Hope you find one you like, we all deserve to feel good!

Find one to match your mood. Which one suits you today?

Gimme an album that sounds like….

A reggaeton club hired a goth DJ to play warped remixes of 100 gecs: Meth Math - Chupetones (seriously, my fave thing i found all year)

A productive couch therapist, working on a laptop in a minimalist cafe: Doon Kanda - Lili

Punching holes in the matrix: Machine Girl - MG Ultra

An unearthed ‘90s r&b cassette tape collection: Erika de Casier - Still²

Shotgunning a Celsius in the club bathroom stall: Kelela - RAVE:N, The Remixes

Gimme an album that sounds like….

Stoner bubble bath music, r&b Phil Collins gently rizzed: Mk.Gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

A glowy daylight afters, when jungle/dnb sounds especially fuzzy and heartmelting: Machinedrum - 3FOR82_D3LUX3

Slithering around the city with sexual prowess: Shygirl - Club Shy (EP)

A perfectly worn out sweater you had and really miss: Grandaddy - Blu Wav

All the ghosts in the room meeting at once - (for the times when you simply need more trautonium³ —a full album’s worth. Haunting, beautiful synth: LudoWic - Trautonium

The cool, misunderstood main character in a 90’s/00’s cult classic film: Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way

Big bodied, gratitude grindin mindset: BigXthaPlug - TAKE CARE (tidal)

f5ve: “UFO” and an old remix

If you didn’t find anything, here’s a fun reminder there’s more for every taste and aesthetic.

f5ve are a J-pop group whose latest single is co-produced by BloodPop® and A.G. Cook.

f5ve - “Firetruck” umru remix (2023)

a trautonium is a synthesizer. other than that idk?

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Tems: Born in the Wild. Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee. ScHoolboy Q: Blue Lips. Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate. Porridge Radio: Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me. Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood. Jessica Pratt: Here In The Pitch. Floating Points: Cascade. Charli xcx: brat. Tyler, The Creator: CHROMAKOPIA. Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us. Jamie xx: In Waves. Fontaines D.C.: Romance. A.G. Cook: Britpop. Denzel Curry: King Of The Mischievous South, Vol. 2

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Erika de Casier is absolutely on everyone’s year-end list but I listened to this song “Ice” so much I couldn’t make this without including it

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an instrument most famously heard in 1962’s The Birds soundtrack (Alfred Hitchcock). LudoWic is one of the few musicians who presently owns one.