An icon, the pixelated head of a tyrannosaurus rex Alex Leighton

Listening

Music I've been listening to.

  • Acid techno, drum and bass, inject it into my veins!
  • Grungey, shoegazey rock.
  • Lofi hiphop, very chill. I love the Sailormoon album cover.
  • Their music always reminds me of summer, especially the way Rania Woodard sings.
  • Psychedelic synthwave. The Emptylands track is powerful; wear headphones.
  • Edgy, thumping bass.
  • Grungey, shoegaze-y, indie rock.
  • Smooth, forward-moving beats from akiaura and LONOWN. The album reminds me a lot of peak Crystal Castles.
  • Digital, synth-y pop.
  • Solid drum and bass album.
  • Nice, classic indie rock, also featuring Hayley Williams on the song Past Lives.
  • From their Bandcamp: "Packaging's debut album 'Packaging' fuses psychedelic textures, krautrock chug, electronic grandeur, tuneful accessibility, and just a little bit of bristling self-awareness."
  • Surprisingly catchy, found myself hooked by the bass and the beat. From the Bandcamp description: "minimal krautrock repetition, pounding industrial techno".
  • Smooth, celestial drum and bass.
  • Hard rocking, shoegaze-y music. Feel the sound.
  • Nice and edgy rock, touches of industrial.
  • Digital, chiptune metal. A unique style that I didn't know I wanted.
  • Contact is a very nice drum and bass album from Sub Focus, all of the tracks are polished.
  • Drum and bass! I especially enjoy the more acid stylings in songs like Skyline.
  • Upbeat, melodic drum and bass, for when you want to feel good rather than edgy. Shoutout to track 2: Collide!
  • More drum and bass from Metrik.
  • Psychedelic rock; shoegaze or triphop at times. Very nice.
  • A lovely handpan set, performed on the rim of an active volcano.
  • Delicate, crystalline Japanese vocals over soft, contemplative piano and guitar.
  • Lovely, nostalgic album made popular by Portlandia. The sound is so laid-back and richly detailed that you want to lay there and let it envelop you.
  • An interesting mix of drum and bass / jungle, ethereal vocals, and flute. Evokes a hyped-up fantasy soundtrack.
  • Chill electronic music.
  • Cybernetic, dark synthwave. I love the edginess.
  • Instant classic. Popular because it was featured in the video game Dispatch.
  • Solid, in your face, rock and roll.
  • Cyber djent, synthwave metal, taking you on an operatic odyssey.
  • Copied from their bandcamp description: Pop Punk ┌П┐(►˛◄’!)
  • Grooving, chill. Fun to hear vocals from The xx members — I haven't listened to the band since their first album, but their voices are still so recognizable.
  • Drum and bass!
  • Chill, nostalgia-laden, liquid drum and bass.
  • Hard rock with a ton of great riffs.
  • A lovely album, dreamy lyrics over a shoegaze soundscape.
  • Rhythmic electronic noise in the best way.
  • Edgy, ethereal Imogen Heap, paired with a thoughtful statement on AI and art.
  • A quiet, captivating Sufi performance on the cura, and one of my favorite internet treasures.
  • Morning coffee grooves // Fall vibes at Isar, Munich // Deep House, House, Groovy, Breakfast.
  • Rough indie Korean shoegaze.
  • Hard rock, as one Bandcamp user puts it: "keeping in line with the patented cloakroom sound of heavy but reassuring/ relaxing all at once".
  • Bandcamp's album of the day for 10/10 2025. The album's all over the place, some metal, some mathcore. What works for me are the multiple guitars and edgy vocal stylings.
  • Middle Eastern psych-funk meets Japanese folk-pop.
  • A more EDM-oriented song from Kelly Lee Owens.
  • Indie rock, I really like the lead singer's voice.
  • Smooth electronic beats.
  • Beautiful album. Gives me feelings of nostalgia, reminding me of the trip I took to Japan. Tsukoyomi's my favorite track.
  • Love the high, melodic vocals layered onto the infectious drum and bass rhythm.
  • Listening to Delta Heavy more, in preparation for Boo 2025.
  • Purity Ring's version of electronic pop, though this album isn't as consistently on-theme as previous albums.
  • Chill, atmospheric D&B/Jungle.
  • More dark, angry electronica.
  • Dark, industrial, atmospheric at times.
  • Electronic dance music, house adjacent.
  • Severance is a great television series, with iconic music composed by Theodore Shapiro. This remix album made by ODESZA is an excellent, chill electronica soundtrack "to refine to".
  • Short and sweet album. Chill, lo-fi adjacent.
  • Office Space quotes mixed into lo-fi beats. Sounds like a gimmick, but this album really delivers a fun, chill listen.
  • Upbeat, dreamy, reverb.
  • Intricate Irish wire-strung harp tapestries, by turns haunting and anticipatory. Bandcamp's Album of the Day.
  • Light, airy pop. Sadgirl synth.
  • I believe in Ladytron, doing their thing.
  • Chill, fun, entrancing psych-pop.
  • As a lover of Tron: Legacy and the exquisite Daft Punk soundtrack, I've been really looking forward to NIN's take on a Tron soundtrack. I'm a bit less enthused for the Jared Leto 😕 headed Tron: Ares though.
  • Tame Impala, back at the psychedelics again. Joe Keery, what are you doing here?
  • Energetic punk!
  • Downtempo, chill electronica.
  • I found GIFT from a KEXP studio performance. Illuminator is exuberant, soaring, shoegaze-adjacent.
  • Melodic rock, combining some influences in ways I can feel but can't figure out who.
  • Rock — a little grimey, meandering, and whimsical.
  • Dark and angry electronica.
  • Harder rock with an edge, tinged with shoegaze. Wistful at times.
  • Cool and hip electronica, reminds me of Daft Punk in a number of places.
  • A love letter to computers and video game sounds in the best way.
  • Listening to this album before going to the 20th anniversary concert.
  • Smoky synth, sultry vocals and lyrics.
  • Dark electronic-pop about growing up online, and the things the internet showed us too young.
  • Moody progressive rock and metal. Very much my kind of music. Similar in my ears to Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky.
  • I'm going to quote the band here: "Metal, punk, electronica and art rock".
  • Ahhhh, feel the atmosphere.
  • Metallic progressive rock.
  • Psychedelic soul and Middle Eastern rock.
  • Moody, atmospheric post-rock.
  • I found this band on Tiktok, they remind me of Bring Me The Horizon. Love the metal-pop-punk sound.
  • This album beautifully mixes European and Indian "classical" style music. I love both cellos and sitars, and hearing them together is beautiful.