december details
let's tie this year up with a pretty bow!
hello my friends,
i hope this message finds you at peace wherever you are. may you be in an introspective headspace to receive this message and process the past year with grace. i am thinking about what kind of output i desire to have within this creative avenue next year, but that’s what i’ll most likely address in my fourth anniversary post on 1/11.
in the meantime, let’s tie this year up with a pretty bow! read on for a selection of new releases, music to look forward to in the new year, and sights to see. plus, an eclectic playlist full of music that i will be taking into 2025.
new releases
Smino — Maybe in Nirvana
FLO — Access All Areas
Girlhood — Hot Mess
LION BABE — House of LION BABE
Luna Li — When A Thought Grows Wings
Emilia Sisco & Cold Diamond & Mink — Introducing Emilia Sisco
Anna Field — Medicine (EP)
Ethel — The Burden of Fever Dreams (EP)
Sans Soucis — Circumnavigating Georgia1
bodies of divine infinite and eternal spirit — the great guitar of universal compassion
Zoe’s Shanghai — Undergrowth (EP)
Tara Lily — Speak in the Dark
Conner Youngblood — Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly
music to look forward to
Eddie Chacon — Lay Low (1/31/2025)
Biig Piig — 11:11 (2/7/2025)
John Glacier — Like A Ribbon (2/14/2025)
THEY. — LOVE. JONES (2/14/2025)
Nao — Jupiter (2/21/2025)
Everything is Recorded — Temporary (2/28/2025)
BANKS — Off With Her Head (2/28/2025)2
Tokimonsta — Eternal Reverie (3/7/2025) [album was postponed; the release date was previously shared as 11/22]
Twin Shadow — Georgie (3/14/2025)
Greentea Peng — Tell Dem It’s Sunny (3/21/2025)
SPELLLING — Portrait of My Heart (3/28/2025)
ICYMI: my year-end favorite music lists
sights to see
Harper’s Bazaar interview with Dara
Dara — the stylist, model, and fashionista extraordinaire — has always had impeccable taste. if you were really in those fashion tumblr/blogger/lookbook.nu streets back in 2010/2011, then you already know. i really enjoyed this interview where she explains some of her reference points because i can definitely relate to being a clothes hoarder and making looks out of a collection of other people’s clothes.
Mythic Quest
i was definitely sleeping on this show! if you have Apple TV and haven’t seen this yet, go ahead and get caught up before the fourth season comes out on January 29th.
Kieran Culkin & Colman Domingo | Variety’s Actors on Actors
somebody get these two in a show or movie together, stat! the chemistry is beautiful.
The Guys of New Girl Reunite
New Girl was very of its time (as in peak millennial TV), but i did enjoy keeping up with the show while it was on. it’s cool to witness these actors come back together for this interview to reminisce about the show, especially as they’ve all moved on to other successful projects.
december details: the playlist
the notes: staycations, passion, legacy, extended mixes, reprises, new paradigms, recovery, angels, prophetic dreams, dream teams.
(december details: the playlist on Apple Music)
bonus: my previous december playlists!
(december dance on Apple Music)
(dreamy december on Apple Music)
(daring december on Apple Music)
i’m wishing you all a safe and intentional New Year’s Eve. i plan on playing the following song on repeat all day. i’ll catch y’all in the new year!
i would have definitely ranked this within my year-end list had i heard it earlier!
BANKS just released a stripped-down version of her debut album, Goddess, for the 10th anniversary.