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At heart, a problem solver. Most often that manifests in my work in software engineering, but I like thinking about anything.

Interests: music, media, running, technology, programming, game theory, geopolitics, design, art and the future.
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Day 38

New Day
– Kiki Vivi Lily • Sweet William
📍Fukuoka 🇯🇵
2021

Another light, bouncy track that brings summer to mind.

youtu.be/qfqknqpeRis
cover art: Tasty – Kiki Vivi Lily A medium lavender backdrop with a roughly drawn outline of a woman – perhaps the artist, though she has no features, only lips. She looks to be biting a finger, looking over her shoulder. Artist name and album title are in green at right, running vertically.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Day 37

When I’m In Your Arms
– Cleo Sol
📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇯🇲
2020

An intimate, feel good track.

youtu.be/Hs6SgjyFbuw
cover art: Rose In The Dark – Cleo Sol A closeup shot of the artist, looking a bit down toward the camera.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Day 36

时来运转 [Wheel Of Fortune]
– Hanggai [杭盖乐队]
📍Beijing 🇨🇳
2024

Driving track from the Chinese band that blends rock and other genres with Mongolian folk.

youtu.be/XUDXtxt9g1E
cover art: 时来运转 [Wheel Of Fortune] – Hanggai [杭盖乐队] An altered photo that turns the Mongolian steppe into a circle, with the sky at the center, as if it’s a hole surrounded by the ocean. Album title appears vertically, in a script font, with more information in smaller text centered underneath.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Day 35

Get In Your Head (Malkovich Ya)
– Dirty Nice
📍Bournemouth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2021

“I just wanna be you in the mirror…see a bit clearer"

youtu.be/B-SRiS2ade8
cover art: Lobster – Dirty Nice A collage of colorful animated creature faces, as on pages that ripped, so that none of them are fully visible. It has a silly, cartoonish feel.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Day 34

Got Me
– Laura Mvula
📍Birmingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2021

More 80s throwback flavor for my list. That bassline reminded me of “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going”.

youtu.be/CJohzGzstag
cover art: Pink Noise – Laura Mvula A heavily pink and purple composite image of Mvula looking left, overlayed with smoky, translucent shots of light streaks. Gives it a vintage vibe.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

#CarBluesky #WeirdCarBS
cover art: Who Killed the JAMs? – The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu (later, they became The KLF) It’s a beat up police car in a field in front of the woods, and there is smoke coming up from the ground.
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Day 33

So Typically Now
– U.S. Girls
📍Chicago, IL 🇺🇸🇦
2023

Strong 80s synthpop vibes.

youtu.be/S4O_dChJKII
cover art: Bless This Mess – U.S. Girls A small, cutout photo of the lead singer occupies the center of the composition. She’s pregnant, and wearing a unbuttoned tuxedo shirt, with undone bowtie. Album title is scrawled in red above the image.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Day 32

Hip Hop Lollipop
– Bootsy Collins • Fantaazma • Victor Wooten
📍Cincinnati, OH • Hamburg • Nashville, TN 🇺🇸🇩🇪
2022

Everybody needs a little Bootsy in their lives (to say nothing of Victor Wooten bass solos).

youtu.be/93BEOz1WSn0
cover art: Hip Hop Lollipop – Bootsy Collins featuring Fantaazma Bootsy’s trademark glasses and stars floating as the backdrop to Fantaazma, bending over backwards with a lollipop (mic) to her mouth.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Day 31

Next To Normal
– Lucius
📍Brooklyn, NY 🇺🇸
2022

This bouncy, head-bobbing, indie pop track was very close to bonus territory on my list. How many bands feature not only one, but two keytars?

YT link is from their KEXP set.

youtu.be/4aFHOMWv41k
cover art: Second Nature – Lucius Photo of the main duo, edited to look like it’s inside a tunnel of multicolored concentric light rings. The style evokes a modernized 1970s vibe.
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Day 30

Pink Venom
– Blackpink
📍Seoul 🇰🇷🇹🇭🇦🇺🇳🇿
2022

My third and final entry from Blackpink. A fourth eked into my top 50 but got bumped on the rule technicality.

youtu.be/gQlMMD8auMs
cover art: Born Pink – Blackpink A mostly ivory backdrop with minimalist artist and album text bottom center, with two large pink fangs emerging from the top.
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Day 29

Rammana
– Salin
📍Bangkok • Montréal 🇹🇭🇨🇦
2025

Salin is a drummer who often mixes funk, afro-beat, jazz and traditional Thai music. Here, she’s paying homage to music from indigenous tribes in Thailand.

youtu.be/5_8YMgaR0o4
cover art: Rammana – Salin The artist sits amongst indigenous Thai percussion instruments and other artifacts. The style evokes a vintage photograph.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Day 28
🏅11 points

Bad Company
– Yazmin Lacey
📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2022

Maybe this track just takes me back to the years around the turn of the century. Lacey channels artists like Erykah Badu, Maxwell, Jill Scott.

youtu.be/hiIIIO1vYuY
cover art: Voice Notes – Yazmin Lacey A black and white photo of the artists face, resting in her hands.
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Day 27
🏅11 points

Eusexua
– FKA Twigs
📍Cheltenham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2025

For my money, she’s the most compelling and interesting talent to emerge from the UK in the past decade or so.

youtu.be/KnGSVIZGkQo
cover art: Eusexua – FKA Twigs A closeup portrait of the artist, wearing many spiky earrings. Album title floats across the top.
November 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Day 26
🏅12 points

What Kinda Music
– Tom Misch • Yussef Dayes
📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2020

Kicking off the second phase by posting the rest of my bonus point scorers. Let’s start with the top scorer, the title track from a phenomenal jazz crossover album.

youtu.be/4az3mKDOrEo
cover art: What Kinda Music – Tom Misch • Yussef Dayes An abstract scene expressed in color blends of blue, red, orange and yellow. It depicts the sea, with land and hills in the distance.
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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HM 5

Sexy Villain
– Remi Wolf
📍Palo Alto, CA 🇺🇸
2021

Yeah, on one hand, this may be cookie-cutter modern pop music. But it’s got a decent hook, and “sexy villain” sounds like a Halloween costume.

youtu.be/V4FGW93j974
cover art: Juno – Remi Wolf A garish photo collage with a picture of the artist in a yellow trucker hat, beige dress and red boots, squatting. That portrait is superimposed over a collage featuring many pictures of what I will assume is her dog.
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This gift is more than a little bit subversive.

Well played, President Lee. #korea
Trump and Lee stand behind a table on top of which are perched the gifts given to Trump: the Grand Order of Mugunghwa (which is framed but resembles a medal to be worn around the neck) and a replica gold crown.
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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HM 4

Woman
– Little Simz • Cleo Sol
📍London 🇬🇧🇳🇬🇯🇲
2021

Aside from creating an uplifting track that grooves, kudos for rhyming “pepp-uh” with “leath-uh”.

youtu.be/zHGf6tmnLYE
cover art: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert – Little Simz
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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HM 3

Anti-Hero
– Taylor Swift
📍Nashville, TN 🇺🇸
2022

Clever pop music, from an album with a great concept.

youtu.be/b1kbLwvqugk
cover art: Midnights – Taylor Swift A photo of Taylor looking at a lit lighter occupies the bottom right half or so of the square, with the rest in ivory. Album title and track listings appear above and to the left, respectively, in Helvetica.
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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HM 2

From The Start
– Laufey
📍Reykjavík 🇮🇸🇨🇳
2023

A delightful bossa nova-inspired pop tune from the Icelandic/Chinese chanteuse.

youtu.be/lSD_L-xic9o
cover art: Bewitched – Laufey A portrait of the singer from the side, with the top half of her body in frame, as she lays on her stomach on the carpet. She’s wearing a slinky silver dress, smooth silver “crown”, oversized star earrings in the shape of the star, and a bewitching expression.
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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HM 1

Sounds Of Blue
– Morcheeba
📍Folkestone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2021

This one started out among my top 50, but got bumped down into honorable mention territory as more trickled into the list.

youtu.be/seUrsjiRVeU
cover art: Blackest Blue – Morcheeba Photo of Edwards and Godfrey, both dressed in black – her in a distinctive flat-billed hat – on a dark background. Minimalist typography of album title (small) and band name (large) float over the composition.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Day 25

Pretty Savage
– Blackpink
📍Seoul 🇰🇷🇹🇭🇦🇺🇳🇿
2020

“Blackpink in your area”

Closing the first half the same way it opened. Certified gold in Australia and New Zealand, and a top five hit in Malaysia and Singapore.

youtu.be/VLpUsmBafMQ
cover art: The Album – Blackpink Stylized band logo and album title centered over a grey/black background.
October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Day 24

Caroline
– Arlo Parks
📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
2021

A smooth pop song with a satin sheen. Some modern adult contemporary.

youtu.be/IBFdbJlGhFE
cover art: Collapsed In Sunbeams – Arlo Parks A photo of the artist casually sitting in an orange leather-ish chair, with one foot up and resting on another identical chair, resting on its side. There are a few sculptural objects, and a dangling phone, in what looks like a loft space.
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Day 23

Intergalactic Janet
– Ley Soul
📍Chicago, IL 🇺🇸
2023

While in university, this young artist has released a handful of tracks which gained some traction on TikTok and Spotify.

youtu.be/7znOifnOun8
cover art: Intergalactic Janet – Ley Soul A photo of the artist in duotone (crimson/yellow), with modern stylized text of the title and artist, and a distinct yellow star.
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Day 22

Will I See You Again?
– Thee Sacred Souls
📍San Diego, CA 🇺🇸
2021

Keeping the soul train chugging along.

youtu.be/IGgb10A_2c8
cover art: Will I See You Again? – Thee Sacred Souls 70s-retro typography across the top with orange text against a tan background. This semi-frames a full bleed photo of a couple standing on a quaint street below.
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Day 21

Telepatía
– Kali Uchis
📍Alexandria, VA 🇺🇸🇨🇴
2020

This smooth soul ballad was her first mainstream chart success.

youtu.be/bn_p95HbHoQ
cover art: Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) – Kali Uchis Kali is a fantastical black-winged woman in a kind of black latex bikini, with long black boots and long black gloves. She’s floating in the middle of a circle made out of elongated 3D words in the title.
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM