Best Album Covers: July 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in July of 2023:

Best Album Covers: June 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in June of 2023:

Best Album Covers: May 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in May of 2023:

Best Album Covers: April 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in April of 2023:

Best Album Covers: March 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in March of 2023:

Best Album Covers: February 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in February of 2023:

Best Album Covers: January 2023

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in January of 2023:

💽 » My 40 Favorite Albums of 2022

These are my 40 favorite albums of 2022, in chronological order by release date:

💽 The Weeknd - Dawn FM

🎶 pop, r&b, soul • 16 songs • 52 minutes

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💽 Bonobo - Fragments

🎶 electronic • 12 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Modern Error - Victim Of A Modern Age

🎶 alternative rock, metal • 14 songs • 49 minutes

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💽 Lady Wray - Piece of Me

🎶 r&b, soul, pop • 12 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Mitski - Laurel Hell

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 11 songs • 33 minutes

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💽 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

🎶 indie-rock, folk • 20 songs • 80 minutes

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💽 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer

🎶 electro-pop, dance, art-pop • 13 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Nilüfer Yanya - Painless

🎶 alternative • 12 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 Terno Rei - Gêmeos

🎶 indie-rock, brazilian • 12 songs • 35 minutes

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💽 Rosalía - Motomami

🎶 pop, reggaeton, latin • 16 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 Lizzy McAlpine - Five Seconds Flat

🎶 singer-songwriter • 14 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather

🎶 electronic, ambient • 11 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century

🎶 chamber-pop, folk-rock • 11 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Samora Pinderhughes - Grief

🎶 indie, pop • 15 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Haru Nemuri - Shunka Ryougen

🎶 J-rock, alternative • 21 songs • 62 minutes

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💽 Sweet Pill - Where The Heart Is

🎶 emo, rock • 10 songs • 29 minutes

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💽 Fado Bicha - Ocupação

🎶 fado, alternative, indie • 12 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Tim Bernardes - Mil Coisas Invisíveis

🎶 singer-songwriter • 15 songs • 58 minutes

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💽 Bartees Strange - Farm to Table

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 10 songs • 34 minutes

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💽 MUNA - MUNA

🎶 indie-pop, synth-pop • 11 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Lizzo - Special

🎶 pop, r&b, rap • 12 songs • 36 minutes

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💽 Black Midi - Hellfire

🎶 experimental rock, jazz fusion, math-rock • 10 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Pool Kids - Pool Kids

🎶 emo, rock • 12 songs • 47 minutes

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💽 DOMi & JD BECK – NOT TiGHT

🎶 jazz, experimental • 15 songs • 44 minutes

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💽 King Princess - Hold On Baby

🎶 singer-songwriter, indie-pop • 12 songs • 41 minutes

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💽 Beyoncé - Renaissance

🎶 pop, r&b, disco • 16 songs • 62 minutes

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💽 STRR - Quando Tudo Era Novo

🎶 electronic • 9 songs • 24 minutes

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💽 Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar

🎶 electronic, alternative • 19 songs • 63 minutes

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💽 Odeon - Game

🎶 rock, alternative • 14 songs • 40 minutes

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💽 Electric Callboy - TEKKNO

🎶 metalcore, electronic • 10 songs • 31 minutes

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💽 Cigana - Estrago

🎶 indie, alternative • 4 songs • 12 minutes

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💽 Marrakesh - Timeskip

🎶 alternative • 10 songs • 30 minutes

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💽 Björk - Fossora

🎶 art-pop, electronic, experimental • 13 songs • 54 minutes

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💽 Willow - <COPINGMECHANISM>

🎶 alternative rock, pop-punk • 11 songs • 29 minutes

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💽 Arctic Monkeys - The Car

🎶 indie-rock • 10 songs • 37 minutes

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💽 Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die

🎶 progressive rock, metal, fusion • 12 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Phoenix - Alpha Zulu

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 10 songs • 35 minutes

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💽 Joji - SMITHEREENS

🎶 alternative pop • 9 songs • 24 minutes

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💽 Dingo - A Vida é Uma Granada

🎶 rock, indie-pop, brazilian • 11 songs • 41 minutes

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💽 Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

🎶 alternative • 10 songs • 46 minutes

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Best Album Covers: November 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in November of 2022:

6 perguntas com Perdido / 6 questions with Perdido

Uma conversa com o músico Brasileiro sobre seu novo disco, nostalgia, filmes de amor, e a melhor forma de apoiar artistas independentes hoje em dia. // Essa é a versão original da entrevista que foi traduzida pra minha newsletter Shuffle Sundays. Para ler a versão final, em inglês, clique aqui.

1. Muitos artistas usam o próprio nome no disco de estreia, mas você decidiu fazer isso no 6° disco da carreira. Tendo mudado seu nome artístico para somente “Perdido”, você sente que este novo trabalho marca o início de um novo ciclo artístico em sua carreira?

Perdido: Totalmente, parece o início novamente. Principalmente pois a indústria da música mudou muito, eu nunca tentei me adaptar de verdade e agora estou nessa vibe de jogar o jogo dos caras.

2. Suas músicas sempre me passam um sentimento nostálgico, misturado com memórias de experiências ainda não vividas, quase como um deja vu. Quais as suas inspirações na hora de compor?

Para esse disco eu quis me inspirar nas histórias já contadas em filmes de amor, esses clássicos da nossa geração… então tem um passado nas letras mesmo, mas eu quis deixar a coisa mais diversa um pouco, para que outros tipo de casais que não o homem loiro com a mulher loira pudessem se identificar também. Foi uma tentativa de fazer um resumo remake de alguns filmes. 

3. Muitas de suas letras são extremamente visuais, pelo menos pra mim. Quando você escreve suas músicas, já tem em mente possíveis videoclipes? Como funciona o processo?

Eu escrevo com imagens normalmente. Visualizando o que está na letra , mas no meu repertório de imagens né … que deve ser diferente das outras pessoas … mas toda palavra ou frase que eu boto numa música eu estou visualizando na minha cabeça … no início eu chamava isso de videoclipes mas acho que pode  ser que eu esteja compondo já com pequenos reels/TikToks.

4. Apesar de você sempre ter tido participações de outros artistas em seus discos, esse parece ser o disco mais “colaborativo” até então. Não só em número de participações especiais, mas me soa mais como um disco de “banda” do que os anteriores. Você também tem essa percepção?

 Acho que nenhum disco vai ganhar do Brasa nesse sentido, pois foi feito uma música com cada pessoa, mas ele é menos um disco é mais uma ópera-tropicalista-rock. Mas eu entendo esse papo de soar como banda, como uma unidade que atingimos pras músicas, e gosto disso, o disco sonoramente é conectado né ?

5. A participação de Teago Oliveira me fez perceber as semelhanças das suas composições com a Maglore, que recentemente também lançou um lindo álbum (V). Você sente que atualmente temos poucos artistas/bandas investindo em “canções”? Não consigo pensar em muitos outros nomes além do seu, da Maglore, do Terno Rei…

 Tem bastante gente fazendo canção, mas acho que o vocabulário as vezes é mais poético … eu tendo a escrever umas coisas bem diretas, que podem ser profundas até… mas a frase é construída sem muita firula gramatical… acho que o Teago escreve assim também, até por isso ele colou tão bem em Carnaval :)

6. Sabendo que artistas ganham pouquíssimo dinheiro com os serviços de streaming, qual é a melhor forma para os fãs apoiarem artistas novos/independentes nos tempos de hoje?

Acho que realmente a melhor forma de apoiar um artista independente é sendo parte do rolê dele. Divulgando e interagindo com seu conteúdo, dentro ou fora das redes, e digo conteúdo ao invés de só dizer música pois … hoje um artista precisa fazer muita coisa e acaba extravasando arte em diversos canais … eu mesmo, hoje estava fazendo uma animação musicada para uma peça de teatro pq alguém me indicou pelo Instagram … não é mais preto e branco … esse movimento me ajuda s pagar contas que os streamings não pagam :)

7. Onde as pessoas podem te encontrar pela internet e escutar as suas músicas?

Eu sou @perdido no Instagram, lá é onde estou mais ativo e replico o conteúdo de lá em outros lugares. Para ouvir, eu particularmente uso o Spotify que é player no qual consegui deixar meu catálogo organizado facilmente após a mudança de nome.

Best Album Covers: October 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in October of 2022:

Jenny Kern @ No Aloha

Here are some shots I took of singer-songwriter Jenny Kern at her concert at No Aloha in NYC:

Best Album Covers: September 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in September of 2022:

Best Album Covers: August 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released in the previous month. Here are the ones released in August of 2022:

Best Album Covers: July 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released on the previous month. Here are the ones released in July of 2022:

VHS Collection @ Brooklyn Steel

Here are some shots I took of rock band VHS Collection at a concert at Brooklyn Steel in NYC:

Black Midi @ Central Park SummerStage

I had the pleasure to attend and photograph UK legends Black Midi playing at Summerstage in Central Park, NYC, on a night kicked off by Sarah Squirm and Sal Valentinetti. Here are some of my favorite shots I took there:

Ney Matogrosso @ Central Park SummerStage

I had the pleasure to attend and photograph Brazilian legend Ney Matogrosso playing at Summerstage in Central Park, NYC, on a night kicked off by Fado Bicha and Francisco El Hombre. Here are some of my favorite shots I took there, while on assignment for Arte Institute.

Best Album Covers: June 2022

Continuing the series of posts where once a month I’m sharing some of my favorite album covers from music released on the previous month. Here are the ones released in June of 2022:

Bon Iver, live at Forest Hills Stadium (NYC, 2022)

When was the last time you went to a concert by an artist that you really like for the first time? Last week I got to cross an item from my bucket list and I saw Bon Iver live for the very first time, accompanied by my friend and talented musician Jenny Kern, and it was everything I could have imagined and more.

Prior to this, I can’t really remember the last time I attended a concert in an arena/stadium type of venue, and I must say that that was something I wasn’t missing at all. Nothing wrong with Forest Hills Stadium by any means, but when you play for a crowd that big, you’ll inevitably attract all kinds of people, including a considerable amount that is not even interested in the music you’re playing. And if you’re not seated closer to the stage (who can even afford good tickets these days anyway?), you’ll probably have so much going on around you (selfies, laughs, drunks, “instagramable” moments), that it can be very tricky to be present and focus on the performance, at least that’s what ends up happening to me in most cases.

Now back to the concert… On tour to promote their 2019 album “i,i”, they’ve played a close to 2 hours set that pleased fans throughout their whole discography, including Heavenly Father, an incredible song that unfortunately is not available on any streaming platform. Even though I’ve been enjoying their music since their debut record came out 15 years ago, and especially with the masterpiece sophomore album, the more recent releases didn’t really grab me that much right away, until recently when I decided to pay closer attention in preparation to the concert, and especially after witnessing the live version of each track, that somehow is even better than the studio version. It’s hard not to think that Bon Iver is just its frontman Justin Vernon, but seeing them live makes you realize how much every single one of them contributes so much to the whole experience. And speaking of experience, the music paired with the lighting design and stage takes everything to the next level, making the concert almost an outer-worldly experience.

I don’t consider myself a religious person, but if Bon Iver was a church, I’d be there every Sunday morning!

Listen to this playlist I put together with the setlist of the show, a great way to get familiar with their music.