Prestige Format Picks 🪪 25 April 2025

This has been a funky week, here’s some good funky music

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Ryan Ruppe
April 25, 2025 • Read this in about: 4 minutes

Some new and maybe new-to-you music

We have sections this week:

New Music!

love this cover format

The secret British soul funk collective Sault has blessed the world with a new album of perfection. Works just as well for Saturday night as it does for Sunday morning.

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Two weirdo pop greats collaborate on an album that feels totally fresh but is drenched in the sounds and the beats of 1999-2001. I just wish it was longer.

The Throwback Zone

**aesthetic**

Charming Japanese pop from more than a decade ago. I love how many different instruments are used throughout this album and how the songs can tug on my heartstrings even though I don’t understand the lyrics.

took this one while the car was parked, I promise

This one is a classic to me, from a year (2005—twenty years old!) full of those mid-2000s indie classics. The Mariner’s Revenge Song is still an all-timer, the kids love this one.

yes that’s a Muppet McDonalds toy from 1994

Cibo Matto - Stereo Type A

This album rules. Yeah, it’s 26 years old and it’s equal parts goofy and badass while remaining 100% funky. I could listen to Shibuya-kei stuff, and Cibo Matto specifically, forever.

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Casiopea (1979)

I got served a reel on Instagram that talked about this album with a clip of one of the tracks and I was hooked instantly. It’s a combination of technical jazz rock that doesn’t hew too close to that “intro to the 10-o’clock news” sound and some real spacey vibes that very very clearly influenced a lot of video game composers in the 80s and early 90s.

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