These albums are constant companions for me throughout the year, and have been over many years now at this point. I hope you find something you love, to take along on our orbit.
Albums link to Bandcamp whenever possible, probably YouTube otherwise.
This garden has just been seeded. Descriptions and images will sprout in the future.
Winter
- Rogue Valley - False Floors
- Björk - Vespertine
- Coppice Halifax - Snow Vessel
- loscil - coast/range/arc//
- Sigur Rós - Valtari
- r beny - eistla
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glacial landscapes, endless white
- Richard Lainhart - White Night
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the snow is polyrhythmic in parallax
- Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Spring
- Rogue Valley - Crater Lake
- Milieu - Aurora Borealis
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new white sunlight, warm enough to walk through the neighborhood
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
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verdant wetlands teeming with sudden life
- Coppice Halifax - Subtropix
- Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
- Milieu - Slow Lid Close
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walking through a neighborhood in your hometown as the days get longer
- Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
- Rob Stenson - Gold Mountain EP
Summer
- Rogue Valley - The Bookseller's House
- Coppice Halifax - The Ocean Lion Series
- Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
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a seemingly endless harrowing day in the desert, from morning to deep night
- Coppice Halifax - Coastal Reveries
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savouring the sweltering heat
- Coppice Halifax - Whitehope
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an anchor on the longest, hottest days
- Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Twine
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move as slow as the days to conserve energy
- Coppice Halifax - Pawleys Island
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traveling to a beach alone on an overcast day. storms threatening. late-teens.
Fall
- Rogue Valley - Geese in the Flyway
- The Leaf Library - Daylight Versions
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days are getting shorter, sunsets are becoming a murky gold
- KILN - Dusker
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cold sunny mornings, an open day ahead, anything feels possible - Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings
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the trees are losing their leaves, stark silhouettes at sunset
- Jack de Quidt - Sangfielle
- Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
- Holland Patent Public Library - Songs to Fall Asleep at the Wheel To
- r beny - cascade symmetry
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misty overcast day, summons the first snow
- Coppice Halifax - Winterhope
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bonfires in the neighborhood backyards. there is only night, winter has already arrived.