music

high-quality descriptions of songs i love. not reviews — attempts to capture what a song does to you, the specific production choices that make it land, the moments that hit.

taste

there's a pattern across everything here: clean lyrics (anything awkward kills it), rhythm that commits, production texture (drums, synth, vocal processing — the details that make a song feel handmade), and emotional resonance that earns itself rather than performing.

shifts — i like music that has shifts, esp key changes. really good bridges. songs that change it up completely and earn the turn.

sound — good swingy rhythm, smooth lyrics, unique sounds nicely integrated in. pop but like indie vibes, not fully indie.

rated

• again — shiloh dynasty & timmies
• supercut — lorde
• when we were younger — grentperez ft. cavetown
• just the right song — vansire
• always — daniel caesar
• get you — daniel caesar ft. kali uchis
• the diner — billie eilish
• why love — from maybe happy ending
• that girl — emei
• earrings — malcolm todd
• chest pain (i love) — malcolm todd
• euphoria — kendrick lamar
• blue — billie eilish
• l'amour de ma vie — billie eilish
• mr electric blue — benson boone

to-rate

songs queued up to revisit and write about.