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Nathan Pyritz
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Nathan Pyritz is a book designer and musician based in Boston, Massachusetts. Find more here: https://linktr.ee/nathanpyritz
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Next on my list is the latest from NY synth-pop trio @nationoflanguage.bsky.social, just out on @subpop.bsky.social. Strong recommend!
Favorite Listens 2025 | 11 of 20 | Nation of Language — Dance Called Memory [album cover] Nation of Language — Dance Called Memory | Sub Pop | 2025 | nationoflanguage.com | subpop.com Nation of Language — Dance Called Memory [album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover | Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee album cover | Jasmine Myra — Rising album cover | Ken Pomeroy — Cruel Joke album cover | Nation of Language — Dance Called Memory album cover]
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This is not a ranked list, but if it were, Cruel Joke (@rounderrecords.bsky.social) would be #1. More than any other record on this list, these are the songs that have been stuck in my head, that made me stop what I was doing and put the album on so I could hear it again. Very strong recommend!
Favorite Listens 2025 [album cover] Ken Pomeroy — Cruel Joke | Rounder Records | 2025 | kenpomeroymusic.com | rounder.com [Ken Pomeroy — Cruel Joke album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover | Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee album cover | Jasmine Myra — Rising album cover | Ken Pomeroy — Cruel Joke album cover]
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Amazing jazz record by Leeds saxophonist and composer Jasmine Myra, released in 2024 on @gondwanarecords.com. Strong recommend.
Favorite Listens 2025 | Jasmine Myra — Rising [album cover] Jasmine Myra — Rising | Gondwana Records | 2024 | jasminemyra.com | gonwanarecords.com Jasmine Myra — Rising [album cover | artwork and design by Daniel Halsall] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover | Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee album cover | Jasmine Myra — Rising album cover]]
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Good day. It's Friday!

It's cold outside and I barely made it out of the house this morning. It's a shame.

Keep trying. Be loud. Keep warm.
enough is enough: A biblical call for moderation in a consumer-oriented society — John V. Taylor [paperback front cover] Expensive People — by Joyce Carol Oates | National Book Award Winner | Fawcett Crest | M1408•95¢ [illustrator unknown | mass market paperback front cover] The Penny Pincher's Wine Guide — by Lucy Waverman | Evaluation of Over 500 Wines | •All Available in Canada •All Priced Under $8 •A "Best-Buy" Wine List | Menus with Recipes for All Occasions | AVON / 85027 / $5.95 [paperback front cover] EXPENSIVE [illustrator unknown | Expensive People mass market paperback front cover detail]
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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How is this record so good? Amazing melodies and songs that just make you feel good, even when they make you feel a little sad. Strong recommend!

I just got their latest record, which is also fantastic.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 8 of 20 [album cover] Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee | Dead Oceans | 2021 | japanesebreakfast.rocks | deadoceans.com [Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover | Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee album cover]
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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My 7th recommendation for the year is Hélène Vogelsinger's beautiful synth album Contemplation, from 2020.
Strong recommend!
Favorite Listens 2025 | 7 of 20 [album cover] Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation | Modularfield / Microsmose | 2020 | helene.vogelsinger.fr | modularfield.io | microsmose.bandcamp.com] [Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover | Hélène Vogelsinger — Contemplation album cover]
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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An incredible record from 1975.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 6 of 20 | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye [album cover] Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye | MGM Records | 1975 | gloriagaynor.com Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye [album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover | Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye album cover]
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Promises is the remarkable collaboration between Floating Points, the late Pharoah Sanders, and londonsymphony.bsky.social on Luaka Bop from 2021.

Incredible music and very nice album cover. Strong recommend.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 5 of 20 | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra [album cover] Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises | Luaka Bop | 2021 | floatingpoints.co.uk | pharoahsanders.com | lso.co.uk | luakabop.com Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra [Promises album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra — Promises album cover]
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This is not a new band for me. I had Violator in high school, and have listened to more of their music over the years, but I didn't ever get around to diving deeper into their catalog and listening more closely until this year.

Many of their albums are great. Strong recommend for this one.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 4 of 20 | DM - Music for the Masses — Depeche Mode [album cover] Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses | Mute Records / Sire Records | 1987 | depechemode.com | mute.com | sirerecords.com DM | Music for the Masses — Depeche Mode [album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover | Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses album cover]
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A lot has been written about Cindy Lee's 2+ hour, 32-track, album. I stumbled upon it, knowing nothing about the album or the artist.

I didn't know what to make of it. I still don't know what to think of it. It is haunting and strange and kind of a mess, but utterly listenable.

Strong recommend.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 3 of 20 [Diamond Jubillee album cover] Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee | Realistik Studios / Superior Viaduct / W.25th | 2024 | geocities.ws/ccqsk/ | superiorviaduct.com/collecttitons/cindy-lee [Cindy Lee] Diamond Jubilee | Alberta Terminals L(T)D | ATL [album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover | Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee album cover]
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Good morning! It's Friday. And it's cold.

But check out this hot title typography. Damn! It's not sophisticated but it sure is fun.
He had steel in his eye, revenge in his heart and — Fire in His Hand — A Novel of the West by J. C. Sheers | A Fawcett Gold Medal Book | R2015 | 60¢ [illustrator unknown | mass market paperback front cover] The California Gold Rush — by May McNeer | The legendary story of the people who risked everything in their quest for gold! | Landmark Books [cover illustration copyright © 1987 by Domenick D'Andrea | paperback front cover] Twisted Trails — by Orlando Rigoni | Only by adding murder to murder could Finch evade the avenging Paul Scott on his relentless chase! | EASY EYE: New Larger Type | magnum M books | 4295 | $1.50 [illustrator unknown | mass market paperback front cover] ...willful mistress even to men who served her with two hands, for ... sheriff with a ... hook for a hand ... she offered ... hardship and ... amused scorn | Fawcett World Library [illustrator unknown | mass market paperback back cover detail]
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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December 5th is Bandcamp Friday, and this is your reminder that we have some great music to download, stream, or buy on vinyl* or compact disc*.

Give them a listen! They make pretty good gifts.

*(not all albums available in all formats)
Bandcamp Friday | December 5 Eddy Dyer — Explosion Alone (Remastered 25th Anniversary Edition] | Summer Pierre — Far From Here | Nathan Pyritz — Rough Cuts on the Way to Poetry, Vol. 1 | Nathan Pyritz — Rough Cuts on the Way to Poetry, Vol. 2 There's still time to get your New Year's gifts! | thatpromising.com | thatpromisingseadog.bandcamp.com Eddy Dyer — Explosion Alone [orange vinyl | Side A]
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I almost included this in last year's list.

Caroline is a delightful weirdo and her songwriting is brilliant, but I had trouble connecting with this album at first.

Then I revisited it when I was also listening to a lot of Joni Mitchell and that made this album click for me.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 2 of 20 [album cover] Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You | Perpetual Novice | 2023 | www.carolinepolachek.com [Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You | album cover] What have you been listening to? [Caoilfhionn Rose — Awaken album cover | Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You album cover]
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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It's time to look back on everything I listened to this past year, and pick the records that made the biggest impression on me.

My first pick this year (in no particular order) is @keelinmusic.bsky.social's beautiful debut on @gondwanarecords.com from 2018.
Favorite Listens 2025 | 1 of 20 [Caoilfhionn Rose / Awaken album cover] Caoilfhionn Rose - Awaken | Gondwana Records | 2018 | caoilfhionnrose.co.uk / gondwanarecords.com [Caoilfhionn Rose / Awaken - album cover] What have you been listening to? Favorite Listens 2025 | 1 of 20 [Caoilfhionn Rose / Awaken album cover]
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving Friday to those who celebrate!
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Good morning. It is Friday!

Learn your maths and sciences, kids. Somebody's going to have to rebuild this country someday.

Keep trying. Be loud. Don't listen to the bullshit.
40000 Medical Words | Pronounced and Defined | Gould | Eighth Revised Edition [by George M. Gould, A. M., M. D. | revised and edited by R. J. E. Scott, M. A., B. C. L., M. D. of New York | P. Blakiston's Son & Co, Philadelphia | 1920 | hardcover front cover] Mathematique 5e — by Henri Bareil & Christiane Zehren | Hachette | 365 [design by Fred Schneider Création | hardcover textbook front cover] The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher — by Lewis Thomas | Winner of the National Book Award [mass market paperback front cover] ... paper, round corners, handsome flexible bindings marbled edges, etc. It contains nearly 1000 pages but weighs only 2-1/4 lbs. and is only 1-1/4 inches thick, 8-3/4 inches high and 6-1/4 inches wide. | THE DICTIONARY NOW CONTAINS: 70,900 current words and terms all pronounced on the Gould System. Definitions that are concise anddd clear. All words used in the allied sciences, so far as seemed necessary. | COMPACTNESS HAS BEEN SECURED BY: The employment of type slightly larger than that used in the unabridged Webster. The use of thinner paper. A neat, flexible binding. The omission of unnecessary pictures. | Flexible Cloth, Round Corners, $.400, Post-paid; Cloth, Thumb Indexed, $4.50. [40000 Medical Words by George M. Scott | inside front cover detail]
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Good morning. It's Friday again.

What does it mean to walk like men? How do you walk.

Be loud. Keep trying. Go on a walk.

Follow me on LinkedIn (link in bio)
They Walked Like Men — by Clifford Donald Simak | Spaceraiders Determined to Buy Earth Roll Relentlessly Toward Conquest! | Avon / 42861 / $1.95 [cover illustration by Jan Esteves | mass market paperback front cover] The Humanoids — Jack Williamson's finest, most thought-provoking novel | Lancer Science Fiction Library | Man mastered the stars . . . to become slave to his own creation. ". . . prophecy carried to its utmost . . ." — New York Times | Lancer Books 75362-095 | 95¢ | HUMANOID Serial No. 81-H-B-27: To Serve and Obey, and Guard Men from Harm [illustrator unknown | mass market paperback front cover] Venus Equilateral — by George O. Smith | Introduction by John W. Campbell, Jr. | With a special Foreward by Arthur C. Clarke | The thrilling story of crisis and adven-ture in a 21st-century space station | FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK | Pyramid Science Fiction | T-1724 | 75¢ [cover illustration by Jack Gaughan | mass market paperback front cover] [ Venus Equilateral — by George O. Smith | illustration by Jack Gaughan | mass market paperback back cover detail]
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Good morning. It's Friday!

Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

Keep trying. Be loud. Stay warm.
Arrowsmith — by Sinclair Lewis | A Signet Classic | CQ367 | 95¢ | Signet Classics | Lambert [cover illustration by Saul Lambert | mass market paperback front cover] Islands in the Stream — The New Novel by Ernest Hemingway | #1 | The triumphant, romantic bestseller by the author of A Farewell to Arms | T6999 * $1.50 * A Bantam Book [mass market paperback front cover] 50 Ways to Find a Lover — by Sharyn Wolf with Katy Koontz | Revised Edition | Proven Techniques for Finding Someone Special | 26 BUCK A BOOK low price 001 $ 1.00 [paperback front cover] [Illustration by Saul Lambert from Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis | mass market paperback front cover detail]
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Good morning! It's Friday. And Halloween!

I LOVE these old tomes. They provided inspiration for 2 Kelly Link & @gavingrant.bsky.social anthologies I once designed.

Keep trying. Be loud. Scare the daylights out of the monsters surrounding us right now, then give them candy (it will confuse them).
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery | Eleven spooky stories for young people [illustrated by Fred Banbery | hardcover front cover] Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense | Stories of mystery and excitement selected by the Master of Suspense | A Random House Book [illustrated by Harold Isen | hardcover front cover] Alfred Hitchcock's Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense [illustrated by Robert Shore | hardcover front cover] [endpaper detail from Alfred Hitchcock's Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense | illustrated by Robert Shore]
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I could say LAST CHANCE to get these goodies, but: A) You can get these all year round. This is just the last time I'm going to talk about them for now. And B) if you order something today, it won't get to you in time for Halloween anyway. But don't let that stop you. Happy Halloween!
Spooky tissue paper jack-o-lantern, in orange and black Some varieties of Spooky Pumpkin shirts: Orange pumpkin on black scoopneck, orange pumpkin on black infant T, black pumpkin on orange tshirt, orange pumpkin on black muscle T, black pumpkin on pink tshirt, black pumpkin on orange tshirt, orange pumpkin on black tshirt, orange pumpkin on golden (yellow) tshirt Spooky pumpkin journals and zip pouches: black pumpkin on orange journals (unlined, lined, and spiral-bound), orange pumpkin on black journals (unlined, lined, and spiral-bound), and orange pumpkin on black zip-up pouches (smaller and larger) Spooky Pumpkin T-shirts and other goodies, even after October has rotted away on your front stoop. Available at SpookyPumpk.in (link in bio)
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Good morning. It's Friday!

Bring on the ghosts, the witches, the ghouls. They're a welcome relief from all the truly scary things happening every day in this country.

Keep trying.
Be loud.
Take care of yourselves, but don't let the fear hold you back.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley — edited by John Symonds & Kenneth Grant [jacket design by M. Mohan | published 1969 by Hill & Wang, New York | hardcover jacket front cover] House on Fire — a novel by Peabody Award Winner Arch Oboler [This, Oboler's first novel, took 10 years to write, and was finally completed on his ranch in Santa Monica, in a mountaintop aerie designed by Frank Lloyd Wright | jacket design by John Harrington | published 1969 by Bartholomew House Ltd | Distributed by Delacorte Press | hardcover jacket front cover] The Witches of Eastwick — a novel by John Updike [jacket illustration "Four Witches" etching by Albrecht Dürer (1497) courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | jacket design by John Updike | published in 1984 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York | hardcover jacket front cover] [hardcover jacket back cover detail from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley — edited by John Symonds & Kenneth Grant | jacket design by M. Mohan]
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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It's almost Halloween! Get some spooky t-shirts and other goodies for you and your little pumpkins.

Available at SpookyPumpk.in (link in bio).
Spooky Pumpkin t-shirts and tank tops in black, gray, yellow, orange, and pink. Spooky Pumpkin sweatshirts and hoodies for children and adults Spooky Pumpkin clothes for babies, toddlers, and children Spooky Pumpkin: T-shirts and other goodies for you & your little pumpkins. Available at SpookyPumpk.in (link in bio)
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
npyritz.bsky.social
Good morning. It's Friday!

Thoughts for today:
1) Reoccurring dream: finding a secret room, or wing, or basement of a house.
2) The House of Dies Drear is a fantastic and beautiful book.
3) Scooby Doo also once investigated a haunted skyscraper.
4) Keep trying. Be loud. Be very very loud.
The House of Secrets — by Nina Bawden | Illustrated by Wendy Worth [hardcover front cover] The House of Dies Drear — by Virginia Hamilton [cover illustration by Eros Keith | mass market paperback front cover] A Power Boys Adventure: The Mystery of the Haunted Skyscraper — by Mel Lyle [illustrated by Raymond Burns | hardcover front cover] [A Power Boys Adventure: The Mystery of the Haunted Skyscraper — by Mel Lyle | illustrated by Raymond Burns | hardcover back cover detail]
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Have you sent out your Halloween cards yet?

Greeting cards and other spooky goodies available at www.SpookyPumpk.in
Spooky Pumpkin greeting card and envelope. 2 Spooky Pumpkin travel mugs: Orange Pumpkin on black mug and Black Pumpkin on orange mug. Spooky Pumpkin long-sleeve shirt SPOOKY PUMPKIN: Have you sent out your Halloween cards yet? Available at SpookyPumpk.in (link in bio)
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Good morning. It's Friday!

Increasingly the houses around me in my neighborhood are growing haunted.

Last night I dreamt I was buying a big run-down hotel in a town in economic free-fall with a suitcase full of cash. Everything about it was sketchy.

Keep trying.
Be loud.
Stay warm and stay safe.
Evil [Is a Quiet Word — by Theodus Carroll] | Warner Books • 78-844 • $1.50 [cover illustration by Charles Moll | cover design by Gene Light | mass market paperback front cover] Mystery of the Red Carnations — by Mary C. Jane | 50¢ [cover illustrator unknown | mass market paperback front cover] Jeff and the Bad Guy — written by Aleda Renken, art by Michael Norman [mass market paperback front cover] [Evil Is a Quiet Word — by Theodus Carroll | illustration by Charles Moll | mass market paperback inner front cover detail]
October 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM