“Swirling guitar textures that burn like blue fire in my chest cavity.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
FANDCAMP: Stars
“Ryan's albums have been great comfort lately as my family has had more than it's fair share of tragedy. Beautiful sounds, most comforting. Thank you for your art.”
HI54LO5: Close Enough
“Can't believe I just found out about Close Enough — it's all the best parts of Regular Show, except now the characters are actual old human millennials and not talking blue jays or raccoons or gumball machines that act like old human millennials. Extra relatable, highly recommend.”
FANDCAMP: Born to Love
“Jamaica has been blessed with great singers so you might have missed him. Used to sing lead in The Techniques (check them out!) and these solo sides are more than welcome.”
REGGAE, EH | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
I realize it's a bit cliche to make a reggae playlist for 4/20 — BUT — I've also been meaning to dive into making a 95-track reggae playlist for awhile now, SO, the fact that April 20th + Reggae are both associated with marijuana, let's just say everything kinda happened organically.
FANDCAMP: Ignorance
“There's always a new layer to discover from Tamara's writing. Album after album it's continually building to a beautiful end whatever that may be. Love this music.”
FANDCAMP: Summer At Land's End
“Every song is just gorgeous, the best of Indie-pop distilled into this album. Imagine Pulp-Jarvis Cocker singing Morrissey lyrics with Belle & Sebastian as the backing band... thats halfway as good as this.”
THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | <10k MONTHLY LISTENERS
I started playing around with the idea of sorting my Spotify ‘liked’ music by the artists monthly listener counts, and since I’ve accumulated + continue to accumulate a lot of ‘liked’ music, I thought it might be interesting to keep ongoing 95-track playlists for certain listener thresholds. This one is for those with less than 10k monthly listeners.
FANDCAMP: Warm Chris
“This album is a reminder that one can have many different faces and voices, and yet be completely genuine.”
Fandcamp: 9 Tracks
“The song titles alone were enough to purchase these 9 little tracks. In all seriousness though, a really nice find from Asheville and a sound not so commonly found in that music rich blue ridge city.”
HI:54 / LO:5 — I'M ALL THAT
“After taking a beat to go from 'wow I can't believe that Will Smith thing happened' to 'ok but nothing to do with me', now all I can think is how I've been working on a 90s mix & listening to 'I'm All That' all weekend *LITERALLY* saying to myself "dang this song slaps".”
FANDCAMP: Africa
“Closest thing I've found to a Grateful Dead album. And yet, with a totally different sound and direction, but so catchy. Zamrock gold.”