soundtrack to seattle
The last week has been filled with goodbyes since I’m leaving Seattle this Wednesday(tomorrow. 7/18.). It’s been hard to get work done because I’m trying to soak in every last bit of this wonderful city. Project memories against the cityscape as I walk through it. Some tunes will always remind me of my time here, and they’ve been on replay a lot lately as I try to account for every memory made here. Below is a list of 41 albums that for me will always take me back to Seattle. They weren’t all released between 2009-2012, and tons of individual tracks didn’t make it onto this list. Maybe I’ll leave them in the comment section.
- Yeasayer - All Hours Cymbals
- The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
- Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
- Sonic Youth - The Eternal
- Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
- Rafael Anton Irisarri - Daydreaming
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled
- The XX - xx
- RJD2 - Dead Ringer (particularly “Ghostwriter” and “Here’s What’s Left”)
- Nils Frahm - Wintermusik
- Hammock - Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo
- Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead
- Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
- Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
- Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
- The Hundred in the Hands - self-titled (especially “Lovesick (Once Again)”)
- The Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low
- Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
- William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (all 4)
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Active Child - You Are All I See
- Arborea - Red Planet
- Arvo Pärt - Alina
- Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
- Built to Spill - There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
- Caribou - Swim
- LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
- Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This to You (& less so, Smoke Ring for My Halo)
- Japandroids - Post-Nothing
- Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
- Atlas Sound - Logos
- Akron/Family - self-titled
- Volcano the Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion
- Under Byen - Det Er Mig Der Holder Traerne Sammen
- Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
- Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
- Ghosts and Vodka - Precious Blood
- Geotic - Mend
- Es - Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys
- Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (& “Operation” from Weird Era Cont)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why Are There Mountains
- The Weepies - Hideaway