Do you remember the first time you really clicked with music? I remember being on a family vacation at 9 or 10, getting some sort of random Beatles “Hits” cassette tape at whatever gas station, and playing it nonstop in my off-brand Walkman. That was the first time I really felt music in my bones, and to this day few things are as exciting as finding a new song to love.
I would get a second similar sense of wonder in 2013, when I discovered the Cambrian explosion of *wave music (chillwave, vaporware, witch house, future beats, and other newbreed electronica). With Purity Ring’s Lofticries leading me down that path