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Prestige Format Picks 📺 30 May 2025
some chill ambient and a slept-on 90s classic
Ryan Ruppe
May 30, 2025 • Read this in about: 5 minutes
it’s Friday and it’s nearly summer
read to the end for an incredible use of a talk box
Multi-instrumentalist and guy who has been on albums you’ve definitely heard (just look at his credits on Discogs), Yuuki Matthews has put out a warm, analog album of meditative jams. Recorded one song a day for 12 days, then cut down to his favorite tracks, this album is a shows how ambient music doesn’t need to be boring, or static, or slow.
One of my favorite synthfluencers, Elin Piel also specializes in ambient music that’s not boring. This collection of ethereal yet grounded tracks fell into my lap after I got a bandcamp code in a Lullatone tape and it’s been exactly what I’ve needed over the the last couple of weeks.
cd case is broken :(
Jeff Buckley - Grace
I had only heard vague mentions of this album for the longest time, and I’d never listened to this 1994 classic. I’d never listened until my 17 year old got into him, and then I realized I had this CD somewhere in one of the boxes of CDs given to me by people divesting themselves of CDs in the twenty-teens. It’s incredible. Perfectly 90s in a juuuuuust post-grunge way, and with a stunning cover of Hallelujah before the one in Shrek ruined that song for everyone. Thom Yorke should be paying Jeff Buckley’s estate regularly for biting his style so expertly.
Daft Punk - Human After All
It’s hard to convey how it felt when this album came out. We were four years after Daft Punk’s disco-pop masterpiece Discovery, and they announced they’d recorded an album in like 2 weeks with almost no samples. A lot of people took the title to mean that even Daft Punk can make a bad album, but it turns out this album was a hell of a sleeper. Human After All harkens back to their 1997 album Homework in terms of straightforward and perfect French house. It’s aggressive and has a lot of guitars and I think it’s aged phenomenally. Daft Punk’s tour the next year (documented on Alive 2007) really shows how well these songs work in context with their catalog up to that point, and the Human After All: Remixes album is a who’s who of the others in the French touch scene who would all grow in profile as the decade progressed.
Links and cool stuff:
Incredible use of a talk box:
@msld_sound notice from the management #talkbox #utah #humor #currentevents #music #fyp #fypã‚·
I found this little micro-label Elmet Brae from the maker of one of my favorite playdate apps and it’s got some great stuff, but I was really intrigued by Faircamp, the static site generator that takes a folder of music and turns it into a website.
Speaking of playdate, Season 2 started yesterday! Two new games per week for the next six weeks!
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