this is a list of songs that i love that were released between the months of january and december of 2017. it is not meant to be interpreted as A List Of The Best Songs. it is simply a reflection on the music that helped me connect with the world, others, and myself. which seemed like something worth making a list about.
i also wrote a haiku about each one.
<3 misha
(please note: this list has been posted in two parts due to website limitations. read part 2 here.)
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Hiss Golden Messenger // John The Gun
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how the stars remind brightly, sadly, and always of an afterwards
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Big Thief // Shark Smile
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smoked a cigarette
down as far as it would go
and pressed play again
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SUPERORGANISM // Something For Your M.I.N.D.
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in a dream i was stalked by the red-eyed wolf through an empty walmart
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Vagabon // Fear & Force
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infinity and
smallness cut from the same stars
as were you and me
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Cloud Nothings // Enter Entirely
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the sound of tape hiss
in the morning & all its
noiseful solace
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The National // The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
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the system dreaming
with rose in clenched fist, waiting
to be shaken awake
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Stella Donnelly // Boys Will Be Boys
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no. we are all done
putting our anger away
in boxes for you
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Amber Mark // S P A C E
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aloneness as a
form of self-revolution
in need of an anthem
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Julia Lucille // Finery
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float in on clouds
of gold and melancholy and
wish for something else
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Phoebe Bridgers // Funeral
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i was thinking how
there was a time when all my
friends were alive
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Tei Shi // Say You Do
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the art of never
asking what he does when he’s not
texting me back
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dvsn // Claim
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i hope dvsn
helped u like they helped me get laid
in this trashfire year
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Vince Staples // Yeah Right
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(in other news vince
co-wrote most of my tinder
responses this year)
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Charly Bliss // Black Hole
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call me cute all you
want doesn’t make my bloody
teeth any less sharp
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Hundred Waters // Blanket Me
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the only human prayer
asks for just one thing between
the night and the now
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Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile // Fear Is Like A Forest
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walk home don’t run
the stars and the dark between
are yours to care for
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Cuddle Formation // Hope For The Flowers
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ode to the flowers
and everyone who shares how
green life can be
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TOPS // Petals
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the kind of sweetness
from when no one asked sweetness
to explain itself
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Shannon Lay // Recording 15
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to let go. all the
way down. even tho you said
u wouldnt tonite
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Lambchop // When You Were Mine
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a late letting go
unfolding into the bath
a tired heart in love
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Common Holly // Nothing
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when the words run out
and then we’re just two people
hurting each other
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Sizzy Rocket // Girls To The Front
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what to wear to the
fuckboy funeral of your
very wettest dreams
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Gabriel Garzón-Montano // Fruitflies
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desert music is
fragile and once in a while
the rare oasis
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Toro Y Moi // Omaha
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she wakes up at dawn
feeling warm, safe, & at peace.
she goes back to sleep
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JW Ridley // Everything / Deathless
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to say “but i’m free”
loudly and often so as
not to wake the dread
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Loz Keystone // How Is It
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the worst part is the
absolute certainty that
it will all be ok
