Moderate Rock

Somewhere in the middle of last year I made my monthly Spotify playlist– something that used to be just for me- more official. Now it’s a curated mixtape of what is on the Moderate Rock stereo, updated all month, new every month. It tends to grow every Friday with the new releases but it isn’t limited to that. For example, I had somehow never heard that Deadboy & the Elephantmen song until a colleague at work implored me to listen to it. What a jam. But then I think this whole thing is full of jams. Side note: That Nils Frahm record is an early contender for album of the year.

February 2020 looked like this.

• COILGUNS- ‘Millenials’
• HARMS WAY- ‘Sink’
• THE ATLAS MOTH- ‘Coma Noir’
• AMERICAN NIGHTMARE- ‘Gloom Forever’
• TURNSTILE- ‘Can’t Get Away’
• BARREN WOMB- ‘Drive-Thru Liquor Store’
• PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH- ‘Bitter Red’
• DON BROCO- ‘Got to Be You’
• DEADBOY & THE ELEPHANTMEN- ‘Stop, I’m Already Dead’
• THE SPOOK SCHOOL- ‘Still Alive’
• KAYAK JONES- ‘Matter’
• HOT MULLIGAN- ‘If You Had Spun Out in Your Oldsmobile, This
• Probably Wouldn’t Have Happened’
• CAMP COPE- ‘How to Socialise & Make Friends’
• DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL- ‘We Fight’
• TYPHOON- ‘Remember’
• MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA & JULIEN BAKER- ‘Bad Things to Such
• Good People’
• TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS- ‘Less Likely’
• CAPAC- ‘Ach bittrer Winter’
• JONNY GREENWOOD- ‘Alma’
• NILS FRAHM- ‘#2’