#fennec album

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.,do you guys ever pick up an old ballpoint pen and notepad you got from a hotel 6 years ago and accidentally draw your best piece

ANYWAY look at what I just pulled out my ass after a grueling week of art block guys 😋💞!!!

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@27thfirefly thanks you for the tag..... it's been an honor. task was to list 9 albums youve been listening to and to be perfectly honest with you. last time i intentionally listened to an entire album was in early may and the last one on this list i was listening to in march :~)

ANYWAYS hey who likes MUSIC @dykejaskier @mooralltach @midearthling @flock-o-fennecs @cowlovely ?? ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE ? would love to hear some personally favored recommendations

(egotrippi, maailmanloppua odotellessa // the mountain goats, goths // cab calloway, are you hep to the jive?

against me!, transgender dysphoria blues // oingo boingo, dark at the end of the tunnel // prince, prince

turmion kätilöt, dance panique // the phoenix foundation, pegasus // gimmel, lentoon)

[fenekku]

Fennec’s Album of The Unspecified Time Period:

Simple Things by Zero 7

Released: 2001

Genres: Downtempo, Trip Hop

Record Label: Ultimate Dilemma

Fennec’s Awesomeness Rating: 6.5/8

Comments: chill as fuck

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five songs i've been listening to (thanks for the tag, @thirrith!!)

alright, i think it's only fair for the first one to be the song i'm listening to at this very moment, so

1. Курьер by Дайте Танк (!)

2. Fennec by Dylan Griggs (insane about his music at the moment, go listen. and while you're at it, go listen to WOE.BEGONE, a podcast that has consumed me entirely)

3. Mark on You by The Mountain Goats (i've been listening to the whole album on repeat lately but this one in particular grabbed me by the throat)

4. I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier (same here, been listening to the album on repeat, but then again, haven't we all)

5. Cenotaph by Dylan Griggs (another woe.begone one. i'm obsessed. you've known this)

tags (no pressure, of course): @ray-theoretical-trucker @prapuna @felixcosm @lolalovesu

[poisoned-pearls]

Are Viv & Emil fluent in french/german(??) I imagine they would be because Rook would be such a doting dad making sure they understand it-- but I also imagine during Rooks lessons Vil often needs to remind them to stay on task because in my mind Rook isn't necessarily easily distracted but he does get carried away easily lol also I've seen Vil knowing german but I dont know if thats canon in the game but I do know schoenheit is a german name lol

Viv and Emil are fluent in French, English (as the default universal language bc it is my first language) and Swahili actually! They’re conversational in German

I ADORE the idea that rook is half beastmen, just with dormant/non visible beast parts (fennec fox mother-) , and since he’s from the savanna, they know Swahili from the summers they’d spend with their grandparents.

Rook has spoken to them in French since they were born (like full blown French-French since they were babies. Not just like random French addins full sentences and paragraphs) so it’s just kinda apart of their lives. Emil uses a bit more random French sentences but it’s much more like mumbling under his breath. His way of coping

they both don’t normally have an accent tho. They DO however say all of the borrowed words correctly. Like lowkey pretentious dude saying “croissant” way to correct in the middle of English sentence. Rook would yell at them for saying ANY French word with an english accent. They’re HIS kids and he will be DAMNED if they ever say char-cute-er-E or cro-sant. (Those are the only example words I can think of rn)

It did take Viv and Faraja two years of knowing each other to figure out they both speak Swahili, BUT Faraja has been aware of Viv being 1/4th beastmen since their first month of school.

(Also the bang incident happened their second month of their second year. Someone had cut the front pieces of her hair shorter than the others accidentally, so in a late night haze fueled by the older ignihyde dorm leaders positive renforcement and too much class work, she cut her own bangs. She does vaguely understand how to trim her own hair, but not a big chop. Her bags end up barely being longer than an inch. So now she is HEAVILY panicking bc she was abt to get her ass chewed out by Vil bc she Had an Interview for her new album the next day. One very panicked call ever Faraja is coming over with a silk handkerchief. She folds it and uses it as a headband to pull the bangs back and hidden away. She wears a headband for the rest of the year bc her hair grows excruciatingly slowly)

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@monstrousgourmandizingcats and @literary-potat0 both tagged me!

three ships: FinnRey was and continues to be big with me. What can I say, that speech he gives her in the cantina in Force Awakens is just stupidly romantic. Love it.

Speaking of Star Wars this may be revealing more about how I think than anyone needs to know, but I assumed Boba Fett and Fennec Shand hooked up at some point. They should do another season and let me write it.

And finally, surprising absolutely no one, Rick and Evie from The Mummy. Gotta love the classics.

first ship: probably Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo haha

last song: Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (phenomenal album btw, good stuff)

last movie: I think it was The Quick and the Dead? I saw it for the first time recently and then I watched it again like a week later. Very good chance I'll be watching it a third time before the month is over

currently reading: I'm almost done with Abnett and Lanning's run on Guardians of the Galaxy! I just got up to the part where Adam Warlock saved the universe by turning into his evil future self, or...something. It's a fun comic as long as you don't think too hard about any of it haha

currently watching: I watched all the seasons of Better Call Saul on Netflix so in the meantime I'm working my way through Sharpe, which is a very silly historical drama starring Sean Bean. I'm watching it on YouTube if anyone's interested in checking it out

currently consuming: I'm just drinking water. I haven't eaten anything today, I don't really have much of an appetite until 2 or 3 most days

currently craving: I could go for another cup of coffee tbh

tagging @elric-chan @kebasirota @happy-radio @binomist @xmoonlitxdreamx @comehomet0myheart and anyone else who wants to go

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Hey y'all, as some of you may know: when i'm not having weird dreams about trans FNAF characters and finding weird shit on youtube, i do digital art! Sooo...here's an introduction of all 20 of my OCs

(Might make another if i don't control my celesgami brainrot)

Characters from left to right, top to bottom: minni, khilana, alex, juanna, weedix, azurine, violet, lucy, cerise, purity, gray, cierra, renée, kranch, sprite, crumpet, tabitha, myrtle, rue and pixel

Keep in mind every character mentioned before kranch and the rest is a character from my original story "mundane believers" over on wattpad, the story is still being worked on so if you're planning on reading it, keep in mind that the character descriptions may contain spoilers

Minni (she/her) is a 14 year old fennec fox who lives on a peanut farm, destined to inherit the farm when she's older. She is obsessed with fandom culture and writes fanfiction with the hopes of writing the next 50 shades of gray. She is best friends with khilana and violet and has a crush on her childhood best friend, weedix.

Khilana (she/her) is a 15 year old russian blue cat; she's curious, adventurous yet reckless. When she was 8 years old she and her friend juanna found a cryptid sanctuary deep in the woods of her town, ever since then she had been obsessed with cryptozoology and made it her goal to prove to the world that cryptids are real (and no, she isn't based on the lemon demon album "spirit phone" though i do consider touch tone telephone to be her theme song)

Alex (he/him) is a 10 year old german shephard; his mother was a hellhound and his father was a wizard. Alex has an explosive temper and is the embodiment of the "toxic gamer kid" stereotype, since he is half-hellhound he has a second form that comes out when he's angry; he was born in the sanctuary with his older sister, cierra though he isn't allowed to leave the sanctuary due to him not being able to control his hellhound form

Juanna (pronounced like the french word for yellow, she/her) is a 15 year old birman cat, she is the childhood friend of khilana and daughter of the town's mayor. She is kind, caring and VERY cautious! Due to her mother always being busy: she had to always help take care of her younger sister, cerise which resulted in her constantly worrying about the safety of others. When she and khilana came across the sanctuary, she made it her goal to kill them all for the sake of people's safety

Weedix (he/him) is a 14 year old fennec fox, he is the son of two well-known gardeners and was born with two tails as a birth defect. Due to the harsh societal standards in these characters' universe, weedix always had to hide his tails and he had developed social anxiety because of it. Minni was the first person he was ever able to open up to and he developed a crush on her

Azurine (she/her) is a easy-going 16 year old maine coon cat with an obsession with stageplay and drama. She was born into a long line of drama actors and is haunted by the ghost of her 7th great grandmother, victoria.

Violet (she/her) is a 16 year old scene lynx, she has a habit of getting bored VERY easily and has quite an obsession with energy drinks and parkour. She is the result of a one night stand when her mother was still in college and her father (a dinosauroid cat) was, of course, estranged. So, she made it her goal to try and find him with the help of her girlfriend, purity (if you couldn't tell: violet was inspired by amethyst from steven universe as well as the danganronpa fansong "i squeezed out the baby" by masuna)

Lucy (she/her) is an 11 year old arctic fox, she is the younger sister of gray and has an infatuation with engineering due to her father being an engineer himself. She is energetic and sweet but is very loud-mouthed and always says what's on her mind, no matter what it might be. She and gray were both the result of a forbidden love between their father, a mundane and their mother, a kumiho. Though after the murder of cierre and alex's father, lucy's mother ran away to live in the sanctuary. Although lucy was too young to remember her

Cerise (she/her) is a 9 year old birman cat who is the younger sister of juanna. She's clever, sassy, sarcastic and prides herself in her skill to annoy people. Cerise is also obsessed with astronomy and believes that stars can grant wishes

Purity (she/her) is a 16 year old dove who is the girlfriend of violet and the younger twin of renée; she is calm, mature and very smart though she is a HUGE perfectionist and will go crazy if things aren't clean. Her mother was a cloud nymph that specialized in rainbow magic (no relation to the book series by daisy meadows) she died while laying the egg containing purity and renée though she was reincarnated as an angel and started living in the sanctuary. This resulted in renée being half nymph and purity being half angel

Gray (he/him) is a 16 year old arctic fox who is the older brother of lucy and the boyfriend of cierra, he is very melodramatic and makes music as a coping mechanism for his mother running away, he is essentially the embodiment of those guys who play wonderwall on their guitars at parties. He's also really short for no real reason other than i thought it'd be cute if he were shorter than cierra

Cierra (she/her) is a 15 year old german shephard who is the older sister of alex. While she IS half hellhound, she mostly takes after her father so she doesn't have a hellhound form though she DOES emit a black smog when she's VERY angry. Her father was murdered by a cryptid hunter when she was very young, she developed somewhat of a resentment for mundanes because of it and is often misunderstood, despite that however: she's very loyal and kind to those she trusts and hopes to live up to her dad's legacy of being the sanctuary's best witch

Renée (she/her) is a 16 year old pigeon who is the older twin sister of purity. Since she was the first to develop in the egg, she is half cloud nymph takes more after her mother. Renée is a lot more arrogant than her sister and she LOVES attention! Especially because of how rare it is for someone to be born with more than 3 colors in their hair. She's essentially a "not like other girls" girl!

Kranch (she/they/it) is a fan character for a hat in time, she is an infinity year old princess from the void who came to AHIT's universe to annoy others. She loves anime more than anything and constantly behaves like an anime girl. Aside from that she is a hopeless romantic with a BIG crush on snatcher and she's great with kids! She also has two long furby companions named bertram and lizzie

Sprite (she/her) is a fan character for deltarune. She is the daughter of kris and ralsei; she's 7 years old, mischevious and she loves apples and pulling pranks on people, though due to her love of fire she can be VERY reckless. In the dark world she is a mage who specializes in fire magic, due to her royal status her magic is VERY powerful and she needs to be VERY careful with it. This, coupled with the fact that she's a hybrid, gives her the status of the "weird kid" in her town

Crumpet (any pronouns, he/him mainly) is another deltarune fan character, he is around 5 years old and is the adopted younger brother of sprite. He was born in the woods all alone and developed pantophobia and trust issues as a result; he can't talk, read or write but is actively being taught and he can't touch anything because he's a slime monster and gets slime on it. Despite his disabilities, he loves classical music and poetry and is easily entertained, his favorite hobby is storytelling!

Tabitha (she/her) is another fan character for a hat in time, she is the 5 year old daughter of cooking cat and the empress. Due to living in nyakuza, she sharpens her claws often for self defense. Aside from that though, she's very shy and is afraid of many things; she loves whales and carries around a whale plushie everywhere she goes that she named blubby, she's also friends with kranch, hat kid, bow kid and mustache girl

Myrtle (she/her) is a fan character for little nightmares, she comes from an AU where there's no danger and all the characters go to school together. She was born with the power to bend reality and uses her powers to make herself seem cooler than she actually is due to insecurity, she eventually causes an dimensional merge and loses her powers because of this. Aside from that: myrtle is cynical, overdramatic and overly serious. She's essentially like a watered-down version of ebony dark'ness dementia raven way

Rue (he/him) is another little nightmares fan character, he comes from an AU where the ending of LN2 never happened and is the son of six and mono. Due to both of them still being rather young when they had him, rue was born completely blind in his right eye as a birth defect. Rue doesn't have many friends and he mostly hangs around random bugs he finds due to overprotective parenting, when the merge happened he got separated from his parents and teamed up with myrtle to fix everything. Rue is very kind, talkative and a bit of a mama's boy.

Disclaimer: while i DID just touch on teen pregnancy with that last character, i ABSOLUTELY DO NOT condone it and i did not make it like that with the intent of sexualizing rue's parents. That being said i want you guys to be mature when discussing that part of rue's backstory PLEASE

Pixel (she/they) is my newest OC, she is a ghost from the 80's. When she was still alive, her name was patty manasco and she suffered from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, she eventually died of cardiac arrest while playing pacman at age 21 and now her soul haunts the arcade; when she's not playing games and pulling pranks on arcade goers, she's usually at the park feeding the birds or eating the sweet treats left behind during closing hours.

And that's all of them! Ngl it took me hours to explain all these lil bastards and i'm glad i'm done. Also just to clarify: alex and kranch don't actually have star shaped eyes, they just have star-shaped pupils and it just looks like that because of the chibi art style. So yea, hope you like my OCs :3

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#5

some of these reactions to Midnights tells me that some of you really have a narrow view of what music can be and what genre can be. i see so many people saying it's a pop album so this lyricism is too much, which is just... weird cause a pop song can have depth??

19 notes - Posted October 21, 2022

#4

swifties i am giving you all hot chocolate!! with marshmallows, would you like sprinkles?? we have red and green and blue and white, which ever you prefer :) if you don't like hot chocolate, we have some tea!! would you like milk and sugar??? anyways stay warm and cozy :) ly

19 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#3

Chapter 9 of wreck my plans, that's my man is out!

Summary: Luke Skywalker-Naberrie is sent on a diplomatic mission to Mandalore, on behalf of the Republic. He plans on getting the work done and leaving as soon as he can after the two years is up, but that was before he meets the Mand'alor.

Excerpt under the cut:

“We’re getting married,” Luke whispers, unable to hide the joy in his voice.

A laugh escapes Din, who nods his head, saying, “Yeah, we are, we’re getting married.”

Luke pictures a smile pulling across Din’s face, with soft rosy lips being at the center of it all. Tears prick his eyes when he realizes that the moment is coming when he’ll get to look into Din’s eyes, pick out every shade that swims in those depths, trace his fingers across his cheekbones, and eyes running over every piece of the man he loves. He’ll commit it all to memory, Luke swears to it.

“I love you,” Luke says, and Din brings a hand up to the back of Luke’s head.

23 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

#2

Out of curiosity, are there any songs off Midnights that you're feeling for any Star Wars characters and/or ships?

i love u anon, i am giving you kisses for asking me this question!!

here's a list from my like two listens:

you're on your own, kid IS a skywalker song, all of the skywalkers, anakin, leia, luke, rey!!! all these orphans but like yeah

i feel like luke and leia would probably relate to anti-hero!! especially luke and he probably thinks about vader, but i don't think it's a vader song, I think it's an anakin song if that makes sense

lavender haze is a dinluke or an anidala song, ESPECIALLY anidala, from padme's prospective

vigilante shit is the song of the rebellion idk if that makes any sense but also it is a fennec song i can't explain it

Mastermind is all the couples bc how cute

Sweet nothing i feel like is a Main Couple Song, like anidala, hanleia and for me dinluke!!

Im sure that Rey relates to would've, could've, should've bc of her and kylo BUT also i don't like ben, so I view their relationship differently then some people, so if you do, please ignore this! i am not a hater

Bejeweled is for my girls Leia and Padme because of how sparkly they are and how they know they are the shit while also having a breakdown

that's all i have for now, please ask me again in like a week because I have only had the chance to listen to a lot of the songs once or twice and i was EXHAUSTED! but i love this album it is sparkly and dreamy and dark but it's is a mirrorball album, it is sparkling in the night sky, my moon. i love it! thank u for the ask :)

24 notes - Posted October 21, 2022

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what i love the most about The Seven from D20 is that you can just feel the love the characters have for each other and how unabashedly like... feminine?? 'i am like other girls', it feels you know? like all the maidens are different from each other but they all just care about each other. I have only seen that kind of friendship in female friendship???

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HYPHEN ANON HERE SKZ (the group that made youtiful) IS MY ULT GROUP TIME TO RANT!! I LOVE YOU FOR LETTING ME DO THIS :3 :3 :3 I swear if this ask doesn't send..

okay so this group, stray kids, was fully debuted 03/15/2018! it was formed by the survival show called, well, stray kids! there are eight members (and three subunits they're in. 3racha is the producer subunit, formed predebut)

bangchan (3racha) - the leader, he's a workaholic and very silly. wait all the members are actually. aussie boy who hates pineapple burgers "there is a piece of pineapple. in my burgah'". his skzoo is a wolf!

lee know/lee minho (danceracha) - the most cat person to ever cat person. absolute dance machine. he almost got kicked out from stray kids but got put back before debut. his skzoo is a bunny!

changbin (3racha) - oh the things I could say about this man... (he's my bias <3) main rapper, and he's like, crazy fuckin good. like faster than eminem good. his girl group dance covers EATTT. his skzoo is a dwaekki! (part bunny part pig thing)

hyunjin (danceracha) - changbins wife (wait nvm I think its the other way around? I don't remember) also a really good dancer, with some fire raps too. his skzoo is a ferret!

han (3racha) - the babygirl ever, but he's also a crazy good rapper. accidentally started an "aye domino❗❗" cult, you could check duolingo or even the domino pizza social media accounts to see for yourself. writes songs like he's going through his 4th divorce. his skzoo is a quokka!

felix (danceracha) - he looks so cute, right? wait until you hear his voice bro, he goes DEEP. also aussie, and like minho, almost got kicked out of the group. his skzoo is a chick!

seungmin (vocalracha) - "seungmin in the building!!" jyps (their boss) biggest opp. funniest member, when he says something the entire group dies. his skzoo is a puppy!

i.n./jeongin (vocalracha) - cutie patootie. maknae on top (he has a song dedicated to how much of the best maknae, or youngest, he is) im so in love with his vocals, just like how all the members are in love with him. his skzoo is a fennec fox!

youtiful is in the 5 star album, their 3rd most recent album! (2nd most recent is rockstar, most recent is the ate album that came out July 19th) they're super talented and they're on tour right now!! you should check out the solo stages they did cause GOD DAMN!!

They sound cool, might check’em out if I ever wanna sample K-pop!

i am SO sorry but my first thought about the Skzoo thing is “so that’s their fursona?” (I am a furry this is not in any sense derogatory)

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so cozy in this inbox- you’ve even got fruit snacks in here! im stayin forever if that’s okay

rng selected questions from the “distracting asks” this time! and yes more proofreading yayyy

23, 18, 10, 15, 3

carry on fellow pb blossom member o7

hello again dearest mads!!!! little did you know the fruit snacks were a lure you have no choice but to stay now >:)

23. talk about a WIP?

oh man ive got a lot on hold at the moment, buuut ill go with my tati/barb painting im working on (that I believe i sent you the current version of- its been a bit lmaoo)

i mean first of all i just really wanted to give my girls at least a bit of happiness. is it temporary? in canon? definitely not. but they deserve to have each other to lean on and to feel safe with

and i really love the concepts of bi/aro barb and lesbian/aroace tati so. they dont have a defined relationship, they just love each other and thats all that matters.

ive got a few ideas in my head of how their relationship would come to be, but i think its something they both tried to view from analytical lenses if that makes sense? especially with barb, my poor heteronormative victim. she definitely does not like the idea that she might care for tati in a more realistic way than she did with curt until she tried to put her fears behind her and consider it from a position of just what would make her happy. when she realized the answer to that question was tati, she was both extremely relieved and utterly terrified. with tati, she was so afraid of how easily barb was peeling back the walls she had built up so meticulously, but after she realized that it was probably healthier for her, she accepted the care with loving, almost desperate arms.

they definitely started out as incredible friends, both being able to bond over their shared experiences of discrimination in their jobs over being women in the 50s and 60s in such male-dominated places of work. and for some reason, tati finds it extremely easy to open up to barb and barb just cares so much and just wants to take care of her so bad and that love is always reciprocated, out of fear of losing barb at the beginning, but then out of sheer appreciation and adoration as time passed.

theyre in an incredibly healthy relationship, both because they had no pressure as women to be devoid of emotion and because i think they would talk about their emotions sooooo much with barb as a scientist and tati as a healing trauma survivor.

anyways! got a bit sidetracked, but my WIP is a painting of them cuddling on a couch in their shared apartment :3 the blinds are closed, ofc, and the place is scarcely decorated aside from the necessary furniture, but to them its the most beautiful home ever because they have the other there with them

the idea for the finished piece is to have the orange glow from the sun beaming through the blinds illuminating the room just enough to see them, but have it dark enough to enshroud them in shadow, hiding from the rest of the world. but what we can see is safe, warm, cozy, and quiet :3

18. Dream Job?

Game dev baby!! I wanna make every single aspect of a game entirely on my own one day, but honestly id settle for doing any part of the process in a company or group as long as i can pitch in!!

10. Favorite animal?

im so bad at choosing just one. so im giving you two :)

fennec foxes and red pandas!!!!!

15. Favorite subject?

(im assuming this to be school subject bc subject in general is. entirely too vague lmaoo)

Any and all math!!! im a nerd from head to fucking toe and i am PROUD OF IT

3. 5 songs you have been recently obsessed with?

YIPPEE MORE MUSIC QUESTIONS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MUSIC I LOVE

(btw one of these is gonna be an album bc it has five songs on it and i cannot bear to exclude others for the sake of putting all five of them)

DoNotReadMe.wav by Charlie Slimecicle. is anyone surprised by this? if so that means i need to post about it more

The Wisdom Saga from EPIC the musical!!!!!! been listening to it since its release im obsessed!!!!

Facade from Cinderella's Castle!!! its just!!!! gah!!!! it sounds so good!!!!

Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter. im blaming joel for this one even though it was like a month ago

Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. i thiiiink this is the one? if not they keep playing a song just like it at work and every time i try to remember it later to figure out what song it is i forget how the melody goes and i lose my shit but its taken over my every thought I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT SONG IT ISSSSS

ty for the ask again mads!!!! love ya forever and always my pb blossom buddy <333333

[anitosoul]

My Favorite Albums of 2020, 50-41

50. Drake, Dark Lane Demo Tapes

Favorite Tracks: Deep Pockets | Chicago Freestyle | Pain 1993

I’ve done a full 360 on Drake: I loved his output through Views, felt lukewarm about More Life, and was fully disappointed in Scorpion. It was simply too easy for Drake to put out bloated records and know he would come out of it with at least two major hits. Early last year I found myself revisiting Nothing Was the Same (imo the best Drake album, sorry Take Care) and wondering if Drake would ever return to the level of quality of his older albums. Dark Lane Demo Tapes, despite being a collection of loosies and snippets, provides Drake’s most cohesive-sounding project since If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. It’s wild to think that a 49-minute album could sound concise, but for Drake standards, it does: each song adds to the late night vibe that Drake popularized in the first place, taking me back to what I enjoyed so much about his earlier work. And so, with a random collection of demos, Drake has somehow reeled me back as a fan.

49. Fennec, Free Us of This Feeling

Favorite Tracks: Boy-U | Dreemin | Together

This album came out really early in the year, so I must have found it when I was going through a heavy dance/techno/house phase: I’m glad I did, though, because this album is wildly underrated. Utilizing sampling as instrumentation a la The Avalanches, Free Us Of This Feeling is a sonic collage, taking bits from TV shows, video games, movies, nature, and other music (there’s even a sample from The Bachelorette tucked away in the album). The project is still very much a dance album, with my favorite song, “Boy-U,” featuring a bouncy looped sample that I couldn’t get out of my head for days. This is the first album of many where I’ll mention something about hoping to eventually vibe to this album in a Brooklyn club once COVID is over, but yeah, I can’t wait to vibe to this album in a Brooklyn club once COVID is over.

48. Mac Miller, Circles

Favorite Tracks: Blue World | That’s On Me | Circles

Posthumous albums are always tough, but Circles is an emotional last work from the late rapper Mac Miller. His death was the first that really hit me both in terms of its unexpectedness and because I got into hip-hop around Mac Miller’s era. Circles is a beautiful album stripped down even further from 2019’s Swimming: it provides an empathetic look into the mind of someone trying their best while dealing with depression and anxiety. It’s powerfully touching and at times difficult to listen to due to the circumstances of his death, but given the growing number of people struggling with mental health in the same way Mac did, Circles’ impact is immeasurable.

47. Joji, Nectar

Favorite Tracks: Run | Gimme Love | Reanimator

For some reason I feel like I have to defend my enjoyment of Joji, but I unironically love his music. “SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK” was one of my favorite songs of 2018 and he captures a vibey sadboy angst that I’ve definitely related to in the past. There’s probably some analysis to be had of Asian kids who came up on YouTube post-punk AMVs and whose only contemporary Asian celebrities came in the form of YouTube comedians (anyone remember nigahiga?) growing up to become Joji stans, but I won’t get into it. With Nectar, Joji has evolved musically, working with major producers like Clams Casino and Diplo and guests like Yves Tumor. He sounds genuine on this album, which features more complex lyricism and an expanded vocal range. While some of the songs are forgettable, it’s still a strong release that gets me excited for the sadboy anthems he has in store.

46. Dogleg, Melee

Favorite Tracks: Fox | Wrist | Headfirst

There’s probably not a timeline where I wouldn’t love this album given all of the references to Super Smash Bros. and classic Nintendo games. This album’s hardcore sound works extremely well, delivering a dose of high-octane rock fuel in a mostly played out genre: the tracks sound like a fresh mix of bands like At The Drive In, Deafheaven, and The Strokes. I can imagine any of the songs on the album serving as the next big anime’s opening credits theme, a place where I’m sure Dogleg would feel right at home.

45. Westside Gunn, Pray for Paris

Favorite Tracks: 327 | Allah Sent Me | George Bondo

Griselda, the rap group that defines themselves on grimy east coast bars that are (weirdly) a radical departure from the currently popular hip-hop today, has captured me since 2018 when I first heard Benny the Butcher’s project The Plugs I Met. With Pray for Paris, Westside Gunn released one of the sharpest iterations of the Griselda sound, infusing braggadocious opulence with his devilish raps (the cover art is also badass). One of my favorite moments on the album is how surprisingly well the Tyler, the Creator feature works on “327,” an admittedly softer side of hip-hop (at least in Tyler’s current form) that I would have never expected to sound so good in Griselda territory.

44. Don Toliver, Heaven or Hell

Favorite Tracks: After Party | No Idea | Cardigan

I remember first hearing ASTROWORLD’s “CAN’T SAY,” thinking it was Young Thug doing another weird voice thing. Since discovering it was an up-and-coming Houston rapper Don Toliver, I’ve really enjoyed his music and unique trap-singing voice. His early mixtapes became a mainstay of my late-night drunken train rides back to my apartment. It may not be revolutionary, but Heaven and Hell is a worthy debut from Don Toliver, leaning further into the sing-rapping that’s captured the hip-hop zeitgeist and providing woozy hip-hop that’s a fitting companion for both the pre-game bottle and afterparty blunt.

43. Run the Jewels, RTJ4

Favorite Tracks: walking in the snow | out of sight | JU$T

RTJ4’s politically and racially-charged catharsis was well-needed in 2020, the year when the Trump era reached new peaks of absurdity and fatal racism boiled over into global protests during an international pandemic. Killer Mike and El-P sound as sharp as ever, incisively pointing out the injustices of society with their signature whimsical irony (probably resulting from their Adult Swim origin story). The features are all great, including returning guest Rage Against the Machine-frontman Zack De La Rocha and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age (which reminded me of how much I used to listen to them back in 2013). Protest music hasn’t sounded this good since Rage’s The Battle for Los Angeles.

42. Róisín Murphy, Róisín Machine

Favorite Tracks: Narcissus | Murphy’s Law | Kingdom of Ends

This is a must-listen for anyone who has ever in their life enjoyed dancing, even a little. The dancepop legend Róisín Murphy has released an hour-long mix of club euphoria that will instantly transport you to better times; I’m inclined to believe that Murphy actually is some sort of disco machine after releasing this album. It’s usually difficult for me to get really taken by music like this unless I’m sweating to it in a warehouse surrounded by other bodies, but Murphy’s ear for addictive grooves is too hard to ignore. It probably helps that my favorite track “Narcissus” sounds right at home on the acid jazz soundtrack of Persona 5 Royal, a video game I spent hundreds of hours playing over quarantine. This is yet another album that I’m impatiently waiting to experience on a dancefloor, an aspirational lighthouse for a post-COVID world.

41. Loma, Don’t Shy Away

Favorite Tracks: Thorn | Octotillo | Half Silences

I had never heard of Loma before, but found their album Don’t Shy Away through an r/indieheads post. I gave it a cursory listen and was immersed by its atmospheric gloom. The abstract darkness of the album was evocative of the rose in Beauty & the Beast or Maleficent speaking to the magic mirror, whimsical and murky at the same time. The band’s inverted take on indie rock, dark electronic, and even some elements of trip-hop were enough to garner the attention of ambient electronic legend Brian Eno, who’s featured on the final track “Homing.” The whole album is bathed in moonlight, a natural progression for fans of Radiohead’s darker, more downtempo songs. It even served as a big inspiration for a mixtape I curated inspired by the deep introspection that the nighttime brings, which I’ve included below:

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Premiere: Bellville, Fabio Vanore – Burning Bridges [Incroyable]

Premiere: Bellville, Fabio Vanore – Burning Bridges [Incroyable]

Tweet Cabin In The Wood is a collaborative project within the Incroyable Music family; Fennec & Wolf, Bellville, Fabio Vanore and Vallant. The concept was to live in a cabin in the French Alps where two studios were set up for a total of 72 hours. No less, no more. Through taking shifts across the three days, the collective crafted a truly unique album with individual influences combing to…