Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Metropole Orkest & Leo Pellegrino: “Brass House / Moanin’ / Better Git It In Your Soul” (2017)
• Emmet Cohen / Bruce Harris / Patrick Bartley: Live From Emmet’s Place Vol. 52 (2021)
• Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful (2022)
• Sault: Air (2022)
• Arcade Fire: We (2022)
• Congotronics International: Where’s the One? (2022)
• The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)
• Amorphous Androgynous: The Isness (2002)
• Transglobal Underground: Rejoice, Rejoice (1998)
• Mark Pistel: “Colorful World” (1997)
• Joe Rainey: Niineta (2022)
• Loop Guru: Moksha: Peel To Reveal (1996), Loopus Interruptus (2001), Bathtime with Loop Guru (2003)
• Directions: “Echoes (Continental Drift Version)” (1997)
• William Parker: Mayan Space Station (2021)
• Embryo: Auf Auf (2021)
• Eclectic Maybe Band: Reflection in a Moebius Ring Mirror (2019), Again Alors? (2022)
• Gnome: King (2022)
• Poliça: “Alive” (2022)
• Snarky Puppy: “Trinity” (2022)
• Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations (2003)
• Vivaldi / Max Richter: The New Four Seasons (2022)¹

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1. I really enjoy this, but did we really need another Richter “recomposition” of this exact piece before Richter has provided the same treatment to other beloved works? Could he next recompose Beethoven’s 9th or Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring or something else? [↩]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Laika & the Cosmonauts: Surfs You Right (1990), “Delayrium” (1995), “Disconnected” (1997)
• Tarta Relena: “Me yelassan” (2021)
• Godswounds: Death to the Babyboomers (2018)
• Anna von Hausswolff: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)
• Fontanelle: Vitamin F (2012)
• Tigue: Peaks (2015)
• Kashiwa Daisuke: Program Music III (2020)
• Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq: “Committing to Uncertainty” (2014)
• Grandbrothers: All the Unknown (2021)
• Gurrumul: Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) (2018)
• The Styrenes: In C (2003)
• Moonshake: First (1991), Secondhand Clothes (1992), Big Good Angel (1993)
• King Cobb Steelie: “Quo Vadis” (1997)
• Ben LaMar Gay: Open Arms to Us (2021)
• Tsukasa Saitoh: “Elden Ring” and “The Final Battle” (2022)
• Ghost Rhythms: Ghost Rhythms (2007), “Sept Cercles” (2012), Madeleine (2015), Imaginary Mountains (2020), Spectral Music (2021)
• Fucked Up: Year of the Horse (2021)

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Robert Een: Mystery Dances (2003)
• Throwing Muses: Chains Changed (1987)
• Nigel Kennedy: The Kennedy Experience (1999)
• Barrows: Red Giant (2014)
• Regular Music: Regular Music (1985), North South East West (1996)
• The Lost Jockey: Professor Slack (1982)
• Cartoon: Boot-Legged (1983)
• Lil Ugly Mane: Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern (2021)
• Springtime: Springtime (2021)
• Urok: Urok (2019)
• Yoko Kanno: Cowboy Bebop (1998)
• Ken Thomson: Settle (2014)
• Collocutor: Instead (2014)
• Faust: “Knochentanz” (rec. 1974, rel. 2021)
• Portico Quartet: Memory Streams (2019), Monument (2021)
• JC & The Microtones: Cowpeople (1984)
• President’s Breakfast: President’s Breakfast (1989)
• Jonny Greenwood: “Arrival” (2021)
• Ill Considered: Liminal Space (2021)
• Konami Kukeiha Club: “Beginning” (1994)
• Michael Lee Firkins: Michael Lee Firkins (1990)

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Added this quarter:

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (TBD 2022) [game]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings (2021)
• L’Rain: Fatigue (2021)
• Caroline Shaw: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (2021)
• Clown Core: “Diarrhea inferno welfare burrito” (2010), “Toilet” (2018), “Existence” (2020), 1234 (2021)
• Can: Live in Stuttgart 1975 (rec. 1975, rel. 2021)
• Iosonouncane: DIE (2015), IRA (2021)
• Jaubi: Nafs at Peace (2021)
• Haley: Pleasureland (2018)
• Low: Hey What (2021)
• Cristobal Tapia de Veer: The White Lotus (2021)
• David Grisman: Mondo Mando (1981), Dawg Jazz / Dawg Grass (1983)
• Tony Rice: Mar West (1980)
• Lingua Ignota: “Man is Like a Spring Flower” (2021)
• 15-60-75: Jimmy Bell’s Still in Town (1976)
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra: When in Rome (1988), Concert Program (1995)

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Added this quarter:

• Clarke et al., Rethinking Moral Status (Oct 2021)
• Byler, In the Camps (Oct 2021)
• Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future (Feb 2022)
• Iñárritu, Bardo (TBD) [film]
• Aronofsky, The Whale (TBD) [film]
• Santos et al., Into the Spider-Verse sequel (Oct 2022) [film]

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee at State’s End (2021)
• Stefan Lakatos & Andreas Heuser: The Orastorios / Moondog Rounds (2009)
• Squid: Bright Green Field (2021)
• Sparks: “Moon Over Kentucky” (1973)
• BRUIT ≤: The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (2021)
• Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future (2021)
• The Narcotix: Mommy Issues (2001)

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Added this quarter:

• Cowen & Gross, Talent (May 2022)
• Korinek et al., Oxford Handbook of AI Governance (TBD)
• Silver, On the Edge (TBD)
• Anderson, Soggy Bottom (Nov 2021) [film]
• Metroid Dread (Oct 2021) [game]
• Forza Horizon 5 (Nov 2021) [game]
• Elden Ring (Jan 2022) [game]
• Breath of the Wild sequel (TBD 2022) [game]

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lonker See: “Split Image pt. 1, 2 & 3” (2016), “Lillian Gish” (2018), “Earth is Flat” (2020)
• Mumps: A Matter of Taste (1977)
• Eddie Henderson: Realization (1973), Inside Out (1974)
• Black Country, New Road: “Opus” (2021)
• Michael Gibbs: By the Way (1993)
• White Hills: No Game to Play (2006)
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage (2021)
• Medeski, Martin & Wood: End of the World Party (Just in Case) (2004), “Reliquary” (2008)
• Turtle Island String Quartet & Paquito D’Rivera: Danzon (2002)
• Ponga: Psychological (2000)

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Added this quarter:

• Johnson, Extra Life (May 2021)
• Grossman, How Social Science Got Better (Aug 2021)
• Buchanan & Imbrie, The New Fire (Mar 2022)
• Kemp, Downfall (TBD)
• Rick and Morty: season 5 (Jun 2021)
• Better Call Saul: season 6 (TBD 2022)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 11 (TBD)
• Succession: season 3 (TBD 2021)
• Barry: season 3 (TBD)
• Atlanta: season 3 (TBD)
• Master of None: season 3 (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lumerians: Transmalinnia (2011)
• Oranssi Pazuzu: Mestarin kynsi (2020)
• Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience (2015)
• Oren Ambarchi: Sagittarian Domain (2012)
• Guardian Alien: See the World Given to a One Love Entity (2012), Spiritual Emergency (2014)
• Stara Rzeka: “Przebudzenie boga wschodu” (2013)
• Black Dirt Oak: “Demon Directive” (2014)
• A Tribe Called Red: “Electric Pow Wow Drum” (2013)
• Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor (2006), “Go Go Gadget Flow” (2007), “Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)” (2007)
• Lotic: Power (2018)
• Dev/Null: “Banal Universe” (2007), “Gorechsetra” (2008)
• Otaka Tomooki: “Sound of an Air Raid” (2012)
• Lorn: Ask the Dust (2012)
• Paul Jebanasam: Music for the Church of St John the Baptist (2012), Rites (2013), Continuum (2016)
• Chromb!: “Tu es ma pause dejeuner” (2012)
• Nooumena: Argument with Eagerness (2011)
• Alexander Noice: Noice (2019)
• [bleu]: Sincère autopsie de la finesse (2009)
• Tanya Tagaq: “Uja” (2014), Retribution (2016), “Icebreaker” (2019)
• Zeal and Ardor: “A Spiritual” (2014), “Devil is Fine” (2016), Stranger Fruit (2018)
• Louis Cole: Louis Cole (2010), Album 2 (2011), Time (2018)
• Knower: Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi (2010), Think Thoughts (2011)
• Ben Levin: Freak Machine (2015)
• Khompa: The Shape of Drums to Come (2016)
• Snowman: Absence (2011)
• Rhun: Fanfare du Chaos (2013)
• Arnold Dreyblatt: The Adding Machine (2002)
• Horse Lords: Horse Lords (2012)
• Kooba Tercu: Kharrub (2019), Proto Tekno (2020)
• HHY & The Macumbas: Throat Permission Cut (2014)
• Juan Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Utopia (2013), Humans (2015)
• Kahil El’Zabar: “Return of the Lost Tribe” [Infinity Orchestra version] (2008), America the Beautiful (2020)
• Møster!: When You Cut into the Present (2015)
• Tod Machover: “Towards the Center” (1990)
• Max Cooper: Yearning for the Infinite (2019)
• Mid-Air Thief: Gongjoong Doduk (2015), Crumbling (2019)
• Boring Bathtimes: Loss (2017)
• Larry Polansky: “Ensembles of Note” (comp. 1998, rel. 2010)
• Motorpsycho: The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)
• Rob Mazurek: Dimensional Stardust (2020)
• Ağaçkakan: “Sıkboğaz” (2013)
• Godcaster: Long Haired Locusts (2020)
• Michael Gordon: Light is Calling (2004), Acquanetta (comp. 2005), “Shelter: Is This Wind” (comp. 2005)

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Added this quarter:

• Kenny, The Plague Cycle (Jan 2021)
• Davies, Driven (Jan 2021)
• Robertson, The Enlightenment (Feb 2021)
• Slavitt, Preventable (Mar 2021)
• Ferguson, Doom (May 2021)

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Department of Eagles: In Ear Park (2008)
• Benoit Pioulard: “La Guerre De Sept Ans” (2006)
• Émilie Simon: Végétal (2006)
• David T. Little: “How We Got Here” (2003), “Tricky Bits” (2007), Agency (comp. 2013, rel. 2019)
• Anakronos: The Red Book of Ossory (2020)
• Straylight Run: “How Do I Fix My Head” (2007)
• Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation (2007)
• Beat Circus: These Wicked Things (2019)
• Volcano!: Paperwork (2008)
• Parts & Labor: Mapmaker (2007)
• Invisible Things: Home Is the Sun (2012), Time As One Axis (2016)
• The Dear Hunter: The Fox and the Hunt (2020)
• Combat Astronomy: Kundalini Apocalypse (2013)
• White Flight: White Flight (2006), White Ark (2009)
• Eartheater: RIP Chrysalis (2015)
• Kablam: “Everything for Everyone” (2019)
• Nubya Garcia: Source (2020)
• Cave: Threace (2013)
• Wildildlife: Six (2007)
• Cyann & Ben: Happy Like an Autumn Tree (2004)
• Ken Valitsky [Walicki]: “Meaning – Less” (1995), “Black Velvet Elvis and the 900 Foot Jesus” (1998)
• Rick Cox: Fade (2005)
• UFOmammut: Eve (2010)
• Journey to Ixtlan: “Burnt Coyote Teeth” (2008)
• Legion of Two: Riffs (2009)
• DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (2009), Pigeonheart (2016)
• Clubroot: Clubroot (2009)
• Yacht: I Believe in You, Your Magic Is Real (2007), See Mystery Lights (2009)
• Kiran Leonard: Grapefruit (2016)
• Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses: Perils (2005), Manfauna (2007)
• Yugen: Labrinto D’Acqua (2006)
• Jean Louis: Jean Louis (2008), Morse (2010), Uranus (2013)
• Ken Valitsky: Species Compatibility (1993)
• Alexander Mosolov / Metallica: “The Iron Foundry” (1927/2020)
• Jun Togawa: “カウンセル・プリーズ [Counsel Please]” (2004)
• Tom Zé: Jogos de armar (Faça você mesmo) (2000)
• miRthkon: “Daddylonglegz” (1999), The Illusion of Joy (2006), Vehicle (2009)
• Hoppy Kamiyama: “Flesh For The Jet Set” (1998), A Meaningful Meaningnessless (2005)
• Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Sol Central (2000)
• Ebonylake: As Ghosts We Dance in the Thrashing Seas (1998)
• Natsumen: Endless Summer Record (2005)
• Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (2009), In the Mouth, A Hand (2012)
• Buck Jam Tonic: Buck Jam Tonic (2003)
• Clarence Clarity: Save Thyself (2013), Who Am Eye (2014)
• Zegota: “A March to the Dead Sea” (2001)
• Rovo: Pyramid (2000)
• Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck (2004), The Machine That Made Us (2017)
• Leonid Fedorov & Vladimir Volkov: “Галушка” (2007)
• Encre: Flux (2004)
• Alex Tiuniaev: I Knew Her (2008)
• Skeletons: Lucas (2007), Money (2008), People (2011), The Bus (2012), Am I Home? (2016)
• Keefe Jackson / Jim Baker / Julian Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin (2020)
• Clogs: “Who’s Down Now?” (2003), Lantern (2006)
• Lau Nau: Valohiukkanen (2012), Poseidon (2017)
• Ultralyd: “Saprochord” (2007), Inertiadrome (2010)
• Sebkha-Chott: “Gode Sainture Cuir” (2019)
• Eyedea & Abilities: “Burn Fetish” (2009)
• Kiss Kiss: “Virus” (2009)
• Endon: “Born in Limbo” (2017)
• Jocelyn Pook: Deluge (1997), Untold Things (2001), Caótica Ana (2007)
• Murmuüre: Murmuüre (2010)

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Added this quarter:

• Viale, Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality (Oct 2020)
• Christian, The Alignment Problem (Oct 2020)
• Duke, How to Decide (Oct 2020)
• Moynihan, X-Risk (Nov 2020)
• Anderson, Security Engineering 3e (Dec 2020)
• Cargill, The Long View (TBD)
• Benson & Moorhead, Synchronic (Oct 2020) [film]
• Docter, Soul (Nov 2020) [film]
• Wright, Last Night in Soho (Apr 2021) [film]
• McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible 7 (Nov 2021) [film]
• Chazelle, Babylon (Dec 2021) [film]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Estradasphere: It’s Understood (2000)
• To the Ansaphone: To the Ansaphone (2003)
• Seaworthy: The Ride (2002)
• Terra Ambient: Wanderlust (2009)
• Troum: Grote Mandrenke (2012), Mare Morphosis (2013)
• Johannes Enders: Dome (2007)
• Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders: Divertimento für Tenorsaxophon und kleines Ensemble (2010)
• Fever the Ghost: Crab in Honey (2014)
• Lyra Pramuk: Fountain (2020)
• The Necks: “Bloom” and “Further” (2020)
• Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
• Shannon Wright: Dyed in the Wool (2001)
• Hossam Ramzy: Source of Fire (1995)
• Vladislav Delay: “Rasite” (2020)
• Buffalo Daughter: I (2002), Pshychic (2003)
• Cornelius: Point (2002)
• Algiers: Algiers (2015), The Underside of Power (2017)
• Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)
• Friends of Dean Martinez: “Ethchlorvynol” (1999)
• In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey: “Thank You, Mr. Bishop!” (1999)
• DeVotchKa: How it Ends (2004)
• Anahita: “Velvet Shoon” (2009)
• Iglooghost: Neo Wax Bloom (2017)
• A Taste of Ra: Morning of My Life (2007) [wow!]
• Danny Cohen: “In the Barrio” (1999)
• Ill Ease: “New York, London, Paris” (1999)
• Matmos: “Ultimate Care II Excerpt One” (2016)
• Thee Oh Sees: Face Stabber (2019)
• The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (2020)
• Kayo Dot: “Aura on an Asylum Wall” (2006)
• Live Human: Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method (1999)
• Odd Nosdam: Burner (2006), Level Live Wires (2007)
• Ne Zhdali: She-Ye-Ye (1991)
• Blast: A Sophisticated Face (1999)
• Sotos: Platypus (2002)
• X-Legged Sally: Eggs and Ashes (1994), The Land of the Giant Dwarfs (1995)
• Höyry-kone: Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa (1995)
• Louis Sclavis: “Ottomar” (1989)
• Charming Hostess: “Sha! Shtil!” (1998)
• Optical *8: Bug (1994)
• Don Salsa: “The Deck” (1997)
• Dollshot: Lalande (2019)
• Vivenza: “Fondements bruitistes” (1984); “Prolétariat & industrie” (1984)
• Carter Tutti Void: f(x) (2015)
• Trytony: “Zazuły” (1992)
• Łoskot: Amariuch (1998), Sun (2005)
• Deep Turtle: Turkele!! (2003)
• Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater / Agu / Fruity Pebbles / Disciples of Gouda (2006); Paranoid Cheese (2007)
• Non Credo: “Agnes’ Lament” (1988)
• Jeff Rosenstock: No Dream (2020)
• Enrique Morente: “Omega” (1996)
• Cafe Tacuba: Revés (1999)
• Gasp: “Little Jupiter Come Home to a Groat Man” (1998)
• Velma: Cyclique (1999)
• Sandy Dillon: Electric Chair (1999), Las Vegas is Cursed (2000)
• Hint: “100% White Puzzle” (1995), Dys- (1996), Wu-Wei (1998)
• Hissanol: “Angra” (1995), The Making of Him (1998)
• Pugs: Pugs (1993), Sports? (1994), Pugs Bite the Red Knee (1997)
• Soft Mountain: Soft Mountain (rec. 2003, rel. 2007)
• Ensemble 4’33”: Taxidermy (1999), Happiness, Fame and Fortune (2002)
• Paul Dresher: “Dark Blue Circumstance” (comp. 1986, rel. 1993)
• After Crying: “European Things” (1990)
• The Flower Kings: “Retropolis” (1996)
• Voo Voo: Oov Oov (1998)
• Leyland Kirby: “When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)” (2009)
• Insides: Clear Skin (1994)
• Hildur Guðnadóttir: Leyfðu ljósinu (2012)
• Carl Stone: “Al-Noor” (2007)
• Jean-Paul Prat: Masal (1984)
• Ray Lema & Professeur Stefanov: “Ponji” (1992)
• Valentin Clastrier: Hérésie (1992)
• Steve Martland: “Horses of Instruction” (comp. 1994, rel. 2001)
• Lake Trout: Volume for the Rest of It (1999), Not Them, You (2005)
• Mikel Rouse: “Soul Train” (1996)
• DJ Hidden: Literal Evil (2006), Enclosed (2013)
• The Group: “Worksong” (1975)
• Dave Liebman [Expansions]: The Puzzle (2015)
• Lamp of the Universe: Heru (2005)
• School of Language: Sea from Shore (2008)

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Added this quarter:

• Tosi & Warmke, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Jul 2020)
• Liao, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2020)
• Heffernan, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future (Sep 2020)
• Kumar et al., Cyber Defense Mechanisms (Sep 2020)
• Dalio, The Changing World Order (Sep 2020)
• Steffens, Attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (Sep 2020)
• Barash, Threats (Oct 2020)
• Romaniuk & Manjikian, Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy (Dec 2020)
• Zimmer, Life’s Edge (Mar 2021)
• Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Vols. 3-6) (TBD)
• Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World (TBD)
• Deudney et al., Catastrophic and Existential Threats and World Orders (TBD)
• Pinker, book on rationality (TBD)
• Iannucci, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Aug 2020) [film]
• Anderson, The French Dispatch (Oct 2020) [film]
• Reeves, The Batman (Oct 2021) [film]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Four Tet: New Energy (2017)
• Liturgy: H.A.Q.Q. (2019)
• Chris Potter: Circuits (2019)
• Ukandanz: Yetchalal (2012)
• Soap&Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum (2009), From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend (2018)
• Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (2017), All Bitches Die (2018)
• Flume: Skin (2016)
• Lye By Mistake: Fea Jur (2009)
• Bazooka: Perfectly Square (1992), Blowhole (1994)
• Kolkhöze Printanium: Kolkhöznitsa (2008)
• The Armed: Only Love (2018)
• Desire Marea: Desire (2020)
• Jono El Grande: Neo Dada (2009)
• Ske: 1000 Autunni (2011)
• Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Patchouli Blue (2020)
• Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (1995)
• Phantom City: Shiva Recoil (1997)
• Goldie: “Dragonfly” (1998)
• yMusic: Ecstatic Science (2020)
• Katie Gately: Loom (2020)
• Matt Elliott: Drinking Songs (2005)
• David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000)
• Frontier: Heater (1997)
• M’Lumbo: Spinning Tourists in a City of Ghosts (1999)
• Tarantula Hawk: Tarantula Hawk [2000] (2000)
• Rollerball: We Owned Lions (1998), Bathing Music (2000), The Trail of the Butter Yeti (2001), Behind the Barber (2004), Rollerball (2006), Ahura (2008), Murwa Mbwa (2011)
• Ektroverde: Ukkossalama (2003)
• Pharaoh Overlord: Lunar Jetman (2012)
• Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores: The Quiet Room (2005), The Smother Party (2006), The Blind Spot (2007), Sister Death (2012)
• Supersystem: A Million Microphones (2006)
• Meringue: Music from the Mint Green Nest (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2020)
• Saldin & Teles, Never Trump (May 2020)
• Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2020)
• Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2020)
• Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2020)
• Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2020)
• Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2020)
• Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
• Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
• Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Policy (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Christopher Rouse: Rapture (2000)
• The Comet is Coming: Afterlife (2019)
• David Garland: Verdancy (2018)
• Cleric: Regressions (2010), Retrocausal (2018), The Book Beri’ah Vol. 2: Chokhma (2019)
• Persona: Uptight (2000)
• Trioscapes: Separate Realities (2012)
• Yazz Ahmed: Polyhmnia (2019)
• Rudiger Oppermann: “Teil 1-7” (1986)
• Linus Pauling Quartet: Killing You with Rock (1998)
• Miranda Sex Garden: Carnival of Souls (2000)
• Sin Ropes: Three Cherries (2000)
• Orso: My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever (2004)
• Floating Points: Crush (2019)
• Tiere der Nacht: Kräuter & Weltmeister (2005)
• Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol. 2 (2019)
• Trentemoller: The Last Resort (2006)
• New Wet Kojack: New Wet Kojack (1995), Nasty International (1997)
• Milk Cult: Project M-13 (2000)
• FKA Twigs: Magdalene (2019)
• President’s Breakfast: Doo Process (1995), III C (2002), Formidable Foe (2006)
• Eat Static: Crash & Burn! (2000)
• Wagon Christ: Musipal (2001)
• Luke Vibert: Big Soup (1997)
• Robert Stillman: Rainbow (2016)
• Kurushimi: Kurushimi (2016)
• Lower Dens: Nootropics (2012)
• Laurel Halo: Dust (2017)
• Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (2019)
• Patrick Zimmerli: Sun on Sand (2019)
• Grimes: Geidi Primes (2010), Darkbloom (2011)
• Junius Paul: Ism (2019)
• Fishmans: Long Season (1996)
• Superconductor: Heavy with Puppy (1994), Bastardsong (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Mercier, Not Born Yesterday (Jan 2020)
• Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2020)
• Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2020)
• Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2020)
• Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2020)
• Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2020)
• Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2020)
• Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2020)

Books

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