Nicolas Jaar's "Sirens" is my pick. Incredibly intricate and dark, about the parallels of his youth under Pinochet's regime and the current trends in Western politics.
As a Phillies fan who thinks the Nats are boring to watch and since I have to watch a LOT of Nats games if I want to watch the Phillies, this whole collapse has made me just endlessly happy.
and given the year we've had, I'll take "cursing the Nats' post-season" as a victory
"Innocence Is Kinky" by Jenny Hval - No one is writing music anything like Hval's. "DRKLNG" by Zebra Katz - A mixtape that puts all that unreal Caligulan luridness back into club music. "The Terror" by Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips losing hope sounds like how I felt when I left religion, and it resembles all of the intense fear and awe from that part of my life. "Silence Yourself" by Savages - Exposing how weak dudes have let rock music become and working to reshape the relevance it has in the modern world. Also, loud as hell.
I'm a musician. I've released two albums and one demo this year, all written and performed entirely by myself.
To offer the counterpoint to all of the more positive and neutral examples given of the creative spark, it's just some other secretion for me. It's about as romantic as pus and coagulating blood. All of the other alternatives of getting this sort of thing out of my system are quite harmful, to myself and others. I write and record so those thoughts and feelings don't have a chance to hurt. However, by containing all of that part of me in this one activity I'm able to function in a healthy and empathetic way.
I guess the shorter answer is something like "to keep my even strain."
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