adam

Oh cum, all ye faithful!

Holy? It is the most sacred time of year

And thank god for that

Windy City Times caught me being intense when I sing 😅

The record

Thursday vinyl: “Agor” by Koreless

TBH having a dog is a great way out of many social engagements. “Oh, I’d love to get drinks after work, but my dog needs to go out!”

Aramark: Technically food!

I might recommend against that. I HATED my Bose earbuds to the extent I went and bought AirPods again. They sounded all right, but they constantly disconnect and get weirdly out of sync with each other

Adam’s honorable mentions of 2025 ADÉLA: “The Provocateur EP” Barry Can’t Swim: “Loner” Blood Orange: “Essex Honey” Carly Rae Jepsen: “Emotion (10th Anniversary Edition” Chris Lake: “Chemistry” Daya: “Till Every Petal Drops” FKA Twigs: “EUSEXUA Afterglow” Japanese Breakfast: “For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) Kaytranada: “AIN’T NO DAMN WAY” Kelela: “In the Blue Light” Khalid: “after the sun goes down” Kiesza: “Dancing and Crying: Vol. 2 EP” The Knocks & Dragonette: “Revelation” Lady Gaga: “Mayhem” PinkPantheress: “Fancy That” Ron Trent: “Lift Off” SG Lewis: “Anemoia” Snow Wife: “Bodyology” Sofia Kourtesis: “Volver EP” Tensnake & Gerd Janson: “Push” Tyler the Creator: “Don’t Tap the Glass” Various: “Global Underground Select #10” Weval: “Chorophobia” Wolf Alice: “The Clearing” Zara Larsson: “Midnight Sun”

A collage of my honorable mentions album cover

So while I finish up the Top 10 list, let’s go ahead and do honorable mentions! This is all music that I loved this year but didn’t quite make it into the Top 10. In a few cases, it’s because the work in question isn’t really a full album. In lieu of today’s #dailyvinyl, here you go!

And did!

Excessively Chicagoan drag queens: Her Mitage and Cher I. Dan

My particular brain rot is saying “SheriDON’T!” when passing Sheridan

(Note these are not ranked in any way except alphabetically)

At least it’s a slow week so people are less likely to open it before you recall!

Adam’s honorable mentions of 2025 ADÉLA: “The Provocateur EP” Barry Can’t Swim: “Loner” Blood Orange: “Essex Honey” Carly Rae Jepsen: “Emotion (10th Anniversary Edition” Chris Lake: “Chemistry” Daya: “Till Every Petal Drops” FKA Twigs: “EUSEXUA Afterglow” Japanese Breakfast: “For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) Kaytranada: “AIN’T NO DAMN WAY” Kelela: “In the Blue Light” Khalid: “after the sun goes down” Kiesza: “Dancing and Crying: Vol. 2 EP” The Knocks & Dragonette: “Revelation” Lady Gaga: “Mayhem” PinkPantheress: “Fancy That” Ron Trent: “Lift Off” SG Lewis: “Anemoia” Snow Wife: “Bodyology” Sofia Kourtesis: “Volver EP” Tensnake & Gerd Janson: “Push” Tyler the Creator: “Don’t Tap the Glass” Various: “Global Underground Select #10” Weval: “Chorophobia” Wolf Alice: “The Clearing” Zara Larsson: “Midnight Sun”

A collage of my honorable mentions album cover

So while I finish up the Top 10 list, let’s go ahead and do honorable mentions! This is all music that I loved this year but didn’t quite make it into the Top 10. In a few cases, it’s because the work in question isn’t really a full album. In lieu of today’s #dailyvinyl, here you go!

I’ve been working on my annual Top 10 Albums writeup, a tradition I started a few years ago on IG and will continue here now that I have left the Metaverse. In the meantime, narrowing down the year’s music to a Top 10 necessarily means I can’t include everything I loved over the course of the year…

I will! I’m working on my own list as well so we will be able to compare!

I like how you did this!

It might be winter but yall still need to wear deodorant on public transit

A screenshot of Brooke Lynn Hytes with the closed caption erroneously saying “We will all be damned”

The captions on Canada’s Drag Race are trash but this made me scream out loud

Always 😚

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Happy birthday!

The record described in the post

Monday #dailyvinyl but make it festive with “A Dave Brubeck Christmas”

It was so much fun seeing @iamtravieaustin.bsky.social do his thing last night

Oh that’s even worse 🤣

Also, I’m assuming this was written by another EA, and I cannot tolerate a sloppy EA. The whole purpose of our profession is to bring order to chaos!

I’m cursed to always notice typos 🤣. They happen to everyone, but people who don’t do at least a cursory proofread before distributing a business communication to multiple people drive me up the wall…

Reserevation

That looks like so much fun!

Same!