Luke Muehlhauser

Media diet for Q2 2020

June 30, 2020 by Luke 1 Comment

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)

Rediscovered or revisited (i.e. I’m no longer excluding great albums I revisited but hadn’t forgotten about), and really liked:

  • Guapo: Five Suns (2004), Elixirs (2009)
  • Volapuk: Le feu du tigre (1995), Slang! (1997), Polygot (2000), Where Is Tamashii? (2003)
  • Forgas Band Phenomena: Roue libre (1997)
  • Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush (2001)
  • Shining: In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster (2005), Grindstone (2007), Blackjazz (2010)
  • Supersilent: 6 (2003), 7 (2005), “13.7” (2016)
  • Macha: Macha (1998), See It Another Way (1999)
  • Tuatara: Breaking the Ethers (1997)
  • Terra Ambient: The Gate (2004)
  • Kiln: Holo (1998), Ampday (2000)
  • Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu (1999)
  • Pan American: 360 Business / 360 Bypass (2000)
  • Stars of the Lid: The Tired Sounds of… (2001), And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)
  • Hood: Home Is Where It Hurts (2001), Cold House (2001), Outside Closer (2005)
  • Sigur Rós: Ágætis byrjun (1999), ( ) (2002), Takk… (2005), Kveikur (2013)
  • CoH: “Spring Come Shooting: Make Love, Make War” (2002)
  • Matmos: “…And Silver Light Popped in His Eyes” (1999)
  • Herbert: “Just Once” (2006)
  • Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children (1998), Geogaddi (2002)
  • Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Maander (1999), Incommunicado (2001), Hysteria (2001), Cicadidae (2003), Absencen (2005)
  • Doves: Lost Souls (2000)
  • Six by Seven: “Spy Song” (1998)
  • Coldplay: “Politik” (2002)
  • The Delgados: The Great Eastern (2000), Hate (2002)
  • Broadcast: Work and Non Work (1997), The Noise Made By People (2000), Haha Sound (2003)
  • Add N to (X): On the Wires of Our Nerves (1998), Avant Hard (1999), Loud Like Nature (2002)
  • Clinic: Clinic (1999), Internal Wrangler (2000), Walking with Thee (2002)
  • Muse: “Sunburn” and “Cave” (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001), Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006), “Survival” (2012)
  • Buffalo Daughter: New Rock (1998)
  • Garbage: “Only Happy When It Rains” (1995)
  • Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control: Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996), Black Foliage (1999)
  • Circulatory System: Circulatory System (2001)
  • Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island (1996), In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
  • Antony and the Johnsons: “Hope There’s Someone” (2005)
  • Air: Premiers symptômes (1997), Moon Safari (1998), Talkie Walkie (2004)
  • The Postal Service: “Such Great Heights” (2003)
  • Mount Eerie: “Pale Lights” (2012)
  • Hash Jar Tempo: Well Oiled (1997)
  • Bowery Electric: “Beat” (1996)
  • Vas Deferens Organization: “First Planet Not to Plummet Seaward” (1996), Saturation (1996), Zyzzybaloubah (1997), Sweat Your Cheeses But Not in My Salad (1997)
  • The Beta Band: The Three EPs (1998)
  • Acid Mothers Temple: IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno (2005)
  • The Dandy Warhols: “It’s A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes” (1995), The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997), Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (2000), “We Used to Be Friends” (2003)
  • The Hives: “Hate to Say I Told You So” (2000)
  • Shark Quest: Battle of the Loons (1998)
  • Dysrhythmia: Contradiction (2000), No Interference (2000)
  • Infidel? / Castro!: “The Onset of Life” and “Involuntary Physical Response” (2005)
  • Irving Klaw Trio: Utek Pahtoo Mogoi (1997)
  • Cursive: Happy Hollow (2006)
  • Brand New: “Sic Transit Gloria … Glory Fades” (2003), “Limousine” (2006)
  • Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I (1999)
  • Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), Star Wars (2015)
  • 16 Horsepower: Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes (1996)
  • Woven Hand: Mosaic (2006)
  • Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About (1996), The Lonesome Crowded West (1997), The Moon & Antarctica (2000), Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
  • The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (2001), “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
  • The Raconteurs: “Steady, As She Goes” (2006)
  • The Geraldine Fibbers: Butch (1997)
  • Pinetop Seven: Bringing Home the Last Great Strike (2000)
  • Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk (1996), If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996), “Step Into My Office, Baby” (2003)
  • Jason Falkner: Presents Author Unknown (1996)
  • Eels: Beautiful Freak (1996), Electro-Shock Blues (1998), Souljacker (2001), “Trouble with Dreams” (2005)
  • Jack Drag: “Debutante” (1998)
  • VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater (1998), “Thrown Away” (2003)
  • Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (2005), All Delighted People (2010), The Age of Adz (2010)
  • Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (2001)
  • Jim White: “When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name” (1997)
  • Andrew Bird: Thrills (1998), The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), Noble Beast (2008)
  • Cat Power: “I Don’t Blame You” (2003), Sun (2012)
  • Fiona Apple: Tidal (1996), When the Pawn… (1999), The Idler Wheel… (2012)
  • Edith Frost: Telescopic (1998)
  • Heather Duby: Post to Wire (1999)
  • Yann Tiersen: Le Phare (1998), “Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi” (2001)
  • Creed: “Pity for a Dime” (1997)
  • Cacophony: “Concerto” and “Speed Metal Symphony” (1987)
  • Jason Becker: Perpetual Burn (1988)
  • Nightstick: “Ultimatum: ‘Cut It Off, Then Kill It’” (1988)
  • Queens of the Stone Age: “Avon” (1998), Rated R (2000), Songs for the Deaf (2002)
  • Ulver: Blood Inside (2005), The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017)
  • Rammstein: “Du Hast” (1997)
  • Sunn O))): “Big Church” (2009)
  • Deftones: White Pony (2000)
  • Limp Bizkit: “Everything” (1997)
  • System of a Down: System of a Down (1998), Toxicity (2001), Mezmerize (2005)
  • Dredg: Leitmotif (1999)
  • Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye (2003)
  • DJ Logic: The Anomaly (2001)
  • Eminem: “Stan” (2000)
  • Company Flow: Little Johnny From the Hospitul (1999)
  • El-P: High Water (2004), I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)
  • cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (2001)
  • Subtle: A New White (2004), For Hero: For Fool (2006), Exiting Arm (2008)
  • Sixtoo: “The Mile-End Artbike / Sucide Manual” (2003), Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle Cures (2004)
  • Medeski, Martin & Wood: Notes from the Underground (1992)
  • Mark Nauseef: Wun-Wun (1984)
  • Scott Walker: “Farmer in the City” (1995)
  • Uludag: Mau Mau (1988)
  • Bulgarian State Television Female Choir: Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares Vol. 1 (1975)
  • Ben Neill: “Mainspring” (1988), “Living Close to the Knives: Aggregation” (1992), Torchtower (1994)
  • Kanye West: “Love Lockdown” (2008), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2020)
  • Edan: Beauty & the Beat (2005)
  • Astronautalis: “Down and Out in the Bold New City of the South” (2006), Pomegranate (2008)
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow: “New Orleans” (2006)
  • RJD2: “The Horror” and “Ghostwriter” (2002)
  • M.I.A.: “Paper Planes” (2007)
  • The Streets: “Turn the Page” and “It’s Too Late” (2002), A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004)
  • Burial: Burial (2006), Kindred (2012), Rival Dealer (2014)
  • Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (2008)
  • DJ Hidden: The Later After (2007)
  • Joanna Newsom: Ys (2006), Have One On Me (2010)
  • Dirty Projectors: The Getty Address (2005), Bitte Orca (2009)
  • Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (2006)
  • Ed Harcourt: “Beneath the Heart of Darkness” (2001), “Ghostwriter” (2003)
  • Lykke Li: “Never Gonna Love Again” (2014)

Movies/TV

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

  • Various, Succession, season 2 (2019) ★
  • Various, Bojack Horseman, season 6 (2020) ★
  • Various, Better Things, season 4 (2020)
  • Ward, The Midnight Gospel, season 1 (2020)
  • Various, Better Call Saul, season 5 (2020) ★
  • Various, Solar Opposites, season 1 (2020)
  • Finley, Bad Education (2019)
  • Cole & Krudy, Blow the Man Down (2019)
  • Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

Games

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

  • Red Dead Redemption 2 ★

Books

  • Lewis, The Fifth Risk
  • Moore, Perfectly Confident

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Comments

  1. Bilal Hussein says

    August 14, 2020 at 12:59 am

    Have you this volume Luke: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Atheism-Philosophy-Blackwell-Companions/dp/1119119111? If you have how does it compare to the Companion for Natural Theology? Enjoying the blog.

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