Playlists
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Dec. 8–14, 2025. Peter Knight – For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name (Room40; 2025) Yuhan Su – Over the Moons (endectomorph music; 2025) more eaze & claire rousay – no floor (Thrill Jockey; 2025) Raven Chacon – Voiceless Mass – Present
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Dec. 1–7, 2025. Various artists – KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) (Netflix/Republic; 2025) Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor; Karol Szymanowski – String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 – Belcea Quartet (Alpha; 2025) Ensemble Pamplemousse – Brightness Drifts
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Nov. 24–30, 2025. IQ – CK Wiatrak, Zabrze, Poland, Oct. 4, 2025 (ROIO; 2025) Kronos Quartet – Forgive Us For (Phenotypic; due Dec. 5, 2025) ▸ Rim Banna – Ya Taali’een el-Jabal (arr. Jonathan Berger); Hildur Guðnadóttir – Fólk fær andlit; Mariana Sadovska
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Nov. 17–23, 2025. Bob Dylan – Building Society Arena, Coventry, England, Nov. 13, 2025 (ROIO; 2025) George Tsontakis – Heartsounds; Meditations at Perigree; Sarabesque – Da Camera of Houston (Koch International Classics; 2004) Charles Wuorinen – Ashberyana; Fenton Songs I; Fenton Songs II;
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Nov. 10–16, 2025. Rosalía – Lux (Columbia; 2025) Ludwig van Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 – Ariel Quartet (Orchid Classics; 2025) Marie Schreer – until between (Coviello Classics; 2025) ▸ Marie Schreer – All things must be audible at all
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Nov. 3–9, 2025. Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 33, Nos. 4-6 – Chiaroscuro Quartet (Bis; 2025) Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat (Op. 127) – Isidore String Quartet (Isidore String Quartet/YouTube; 2025) Pierre Boulez – Livre pour Quatuor
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 27–Nov. 2, 2025. Jackie McLean – Jacknife (Blue Note; 1975, recorded 1965–66) Charles Lloyd – Forest Flower (Atlantic; 1967) Bill Evans – At the Montreux Jazz Festival (Verve; 1968) Jack DeJohnette – The DeJohnette Complex (Milestone; 1968) Chick Corea – The Complete
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 20–26, 2025. Armida Quartett – Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. IV (Cavi-Music; 2021) Poiesis Quartet – Poiesis Quartet at Banff International String Quartet Competition 2025 (YouTube playlist; 2025) Armida Quartett – Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. V (Cavi-Music; 2022) Goose – Madison Square Garden,
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 13–19, 2025. Philip Glass – Glassworks (arr. Philip Hoch) – Philip Hoch (Orange Mountain Music; 2025) Yuhan Su – OVER the MOONs (endectomorph music; 2025) Carrie Frey – Seaglass: Works for String Quartet – The Rhythm Method (Gold Bolus; 2025) claire rousay
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 6–12, 2025. Big Big Train – A Flare on the Lens (InsideOut Music; 2024) Big Big Train – Are We Nearly There Yet? (English Electric; 2025) Rush – R40 Live (Anthem; 2015) Rush – R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (Anthem; 2005) Max
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 28–Oct. 5, 2025. Fred Hersch – The Surrounding Green (ECM; 2025) Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 – London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (LSO Live; 2025) David Behrman – On the Other Ocean (Lovely Music; 1978) Mason Bates – Philharmonia
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 22–28, 2025. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Back to Nature: Čiurlionis & Gražinis – performances by Onutė Gražinytė, AIDIJA Chamber Choir, Upper School Choir of the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Deutsche
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 15–21, 2025. Robert Rich – Rainforest (Hearts of Space; 1989) Robert Rich/Steve Roach – Strata (Hearts of Space; 1990) Robert Rich – What We Left Behind (Soundscape; 2016) Robert Rich – Sunyata & Inner Landscapes (Soundscape, Auricle/Soundscape; 1982, 1988/2013) Robert Rich –
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 8–14, 2025. Charles Ives – Three Places in New England; Orchestral Set No. 2; Carl Ruggles – Sun-treader; Men and Mountains; Ruth Crawford Seeger – Andante for Strings – Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca; 1995) Anton Bruckner – Symphony
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 1–7, 2025. Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Relaxes (Prestige; 1961) Walt Dickerson – This Is Walt Dickerson! (New Jazz; 1961) Ahmed Abdul-Malik – The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz; 1961) Bill Barron – Hot Line (Savoy; 1962) Walt Dickerson – Unity
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 25–31, 2025. Linda May Han Oh – Strange Heavens (Biophilia; 2025) Dory Hayley – I Love Evil – compositions by Morton Feldman, Jordan Nobles, Katerina Gimon, Rodney Sharman, and Cassandra Miller (Redshift Music Society; due Sept. 26, 2025) Phish – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum,
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 18–24, 2025. Paul Cornish – You’re Exaggerating! (Blue Note; 2025) Charles Lloyd – Figure in Blue (Blue Note; due Oct. 10, 2025) Horace Silver – Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (Blue Note; due Oct. 24, 2025) Tyshawn Sorey and Kirsten
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 11–17, 2025. Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 24, 2025) Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch; 2025) Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith – Angel Falls (Intakt; due Oct. 3, 2025) Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing the Air
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 4–10, 2025. Patrick Shiroishi – I shouldn’t have to worry when my parents go outside (self-released; 2021) The Armed – The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House; 2025) Dead & Company – Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 28–Aug. 3, 2025. Thee Reps – Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus; 2025) Jeff Tobias – One Hundredfold Now in This Age (Repeating Cloud; due Oct. 17, 2025) Tim Berne – Yikes Too (Out of Your Head; 2025) Jessica Pavone – What Happens Has Become
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