WILTLW: Sep. 14, 2025

🔀	Herb Sundays 162: Otessa Moshfegh
💿	Luko M - Clutch
💿	Jonah Paz - Exit
💿	Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
💿	Nico - I turned the volume down very low and listened to a language I did not understand
💿	AceMo - AceMo Edits Vol. 1
💿	AceMo - Forest City
💿	Brian Eno - Before and After Science
💿	ATELYE MARC - ATELYE TYPE R
💿	MKYFM - FAN LETTER
🎤	Samia @ The Fonda
💿	Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony: Leaflets
💿	Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
💿	Titanic - HAGEN
🎵	SOTW: Eddie Vedder - "Save It For Later"

AceMo - AceMo Edits Vol. 1

New York City underground dance legend AceMo puts out his first edits tape, which is kind of an insane sentence to write considering he’s been in the game for close to 15 years with over 30 releases under his belt. As a producer, AceMo has made his name off of demonstrating the seemingly infinite elasticity of techno, and this edits tape is no different. Here he stretches the genre’s net to swallow up new jack swing classics, viral TikTok remixes, Nickelodeon theme songs, and one of the greatest French touch tracks of all time. But of course the standout is the rework of “Pain” by PinkPantheress, the greatest dance vocalist of her generation.

MKYFM - FAN LETTER

I’m a sucker for a smooth ass beat tape and 10k-affiliate MKYFM consistently delivers. An album redux of the producer’s identically-titled mix series from earlier this year, FAN LETTER coasts along like one of those cracked teenagers speed running a level from the original Mario side scrollers. You can play this at pretty much any time of day and catch a vibe, I love how laid back and liquid it feels without ever fading to background noise, probably has something to do with those meticulously programmed hi-hats and sticky vocal samples.

Joanne Robertson - Blurrr

Haunting stuff, makes you want to curl up in a ball and bury your head in the sand, though I don’t think that’s what Robertson intended. Really it’s a comfort, lullabies for an empty world, where do you find solace amidst all this death? Do you even deserve it? I don’t have an answer for the second one, but the first’s is the subject of this review.

SOTW: Eddie Vedder - "Save It For Later"

I found this on Otessa Moshfegh’s Herb Sundays playlist which is pretty much exclusively devoted to songs about unrelenting romantic desire. Didn’t even realize it was a cover until I sent it to my Dad who emailed back saying that he was already very familiar with Vedder’s acoustic rendition of The Beat original. Touché. Pearl Jam was one of my favorite bands growing up but the only song I knew was “Even Flow,” I just loved the gravelly rasp of Vedder’s vocals and the way they rose and fell on it’s chorus. His pipes don’t have the same power on this one but the grain has gotten even better with age, transforming a cheeky British new wave bop into an incendiary slow burn.