Purchase log, 2025-02-24

[Felsmann + Tiley - Protomensch]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights
  • UA, NEWME
Vinyl
  • Felsmann + Tiley, Protomensch

Catalog

CD
  • Craig David, Born to Do It
  • Keith Sweat, Keep It Comin’
  • Tommy february 6, Tommy february 6
  • Teddy Pendergrass, Workin’ It Back
  • The New Pornographers, Electric Version
Vinyl
  • Weird Al Yankovic, In 3-D

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Purchase log, 2026-02-10

[Do As Infinity - Reborn]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Do As Infinity, Reborn

Catalog

CD
  • Tanimura Yumi, Hear
  • Rufus Wainwright, Milwaukee at Last!!
  • Sting, Demolition Man
Files
  • Dave Hawkins, Half Alive EP
  • SYML, The Vashon Sessions
  • Ta Mara and the Seen, Ta Mara and the Seen

Reissues

Vinyl
  • ZARD, Golden Best ~35th Anniversary~

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Purchase log, 2026-02-03

[Prince - HITnRUN Phase Two]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
  • David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World
Vinyl
  • U2, No Line on the Horizon

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Prince, HITnRUN Phase Two

Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2025

[Geese - Getting Killed]

Tiffany Poon, Nature

Tiffany Poon takes a geographical turn focusing on French composers for her second album, Nature. The care she brought to Diaries Schumann shows up here as well.

Hooverphonic, The Magnificent Tree

For the longest time, I thought the only thing I needed from Hooverphonic was their cover of “Shake the Disease” on the tribute album For the Masses. I was wrong.

Miguel, CAOS

The title of this album is an apt description for the songs therein, but they don’t get too out of hand to lose focus.

Rosalía, LUX

The orchestrations on this album are phenomenal, but I think Rosalía could study Shiina Ringo’s Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana for a lesson on how to keep ambitions in check. This album would be more impactful with a short running time.

Black Country, New Road, Forever Howlong
Geese, Getting Killed
National of Language, Dance Called Memory

I’ll admit I had to do some fourth quarter catch-up on these albums, so they’re indelibly tied in mind due to context-switching. In the case of Forever Howlong and Getting Killed, these albums flex ambition that wouldn’t sound out of place next to a Shiina Ringo or Naked City album, just a bit tempered. Dance Called Memory, meanwhile, evokes an age familiar to anyone who grew up in the Reagan years.

As much as I liked these albums, I didn’t discover them early enough in the year to dislodge the favorites I’ve already ranked. I was also listening to Dijon’s Baby, which did manage to break into the year-end list. Getting Killed garnered a lot of acclaim, but I perceive it as a less-fun version of Parquet Court’s Wide Awake!

Tortoise, Touch

I bet this album might have also ranked higher on the Favorite Edition 2025 list if it had just come out slightly earlier in the year.

Additional picks listed in the Favorite Edition 2025 Catalog list:

  • Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82
  • Kaji Meiko, Yadokari

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