> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.jamesreeves.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 2019 Rotation - URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/2019-rotation/ - Published: 2019-12-29T14:37:49.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-15T03:50:54.000Z - Description: Pictures, songs, and paragraphs wash across my screen one minute and disappear the next. - Author: James A. Reeves - Tags: Notebook, Rotation This very strange decade has finally ended, and it’s harder to keep track of things these days. Pictures, songs, and paragraphs wash across my screen one minute and disappear the next. I find myself increasingly relying upon lists. Traces of nostalgia are beginning to appear in my thinking, a desire for finite collections and limited entertainments. This is a natural side-effect of getting older, but perhaps it’s not all in my head. Maybe we are living through uniquely disorienting times. This year I heard a more spiritual bent in my favorite records, something nervy and apocalyptic that craves refuge. But whether this reflects the general mood or my own needs, I cannot say. [](https://earth.bandcamp.com/album/full-upon-her-burning-lips?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Earth – Full Upon Her Burning Lips ##### Sargent House | [Bandcamp](https://earth.bandcamp.com/album/full-upon-her-burning-lips?ref=jamesreeves.co) Vintage slow-motion grind that lopes through America’s midnight parking lots, pool halls, and dead-end bars while finding occasional moments of beautiful light. [Full Upon Her Burning Lips by Earth](http://earth.bandcamp.com/album/full-upon-her-burning-lips?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-hill?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Chihei Hatakeyama – Forgotten Hill ##### Room 40 | [Bandcamp](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-hill?ref=jamesreeves.co) Perfect ambience that shimmers without being saccharine. [Forgotten Hill by Chihei Hatakeyama](http://room40.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-hill?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-136-dissemblance-over-the-sand-lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Dissemblance – Over the Sand ##### Mannequin | [Bandcamp](https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-136-dissemblance-over-the-sand-lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) Jet black synthetics and blurred vocals like the echo of a 1980s new wave hit from that was once upbeat and fun but after three decades of psychosocial distortion, now only the skeleton remains. [MNQ 136 Dissemblance – Over The Sand LP by Dissemblance](http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-136-dissemblance-over-the-sand-lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code ##### Ideal Recordings | [Bandcamp](https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code?ref=jamesreeves.co) The album I’ve returned to the most this winter. At first it sounds like a childhood memory of an old woman tuning the church organ before the service begins. Then it slowly reveals itself as an austere and dignified sanctuary for noisy and decadent times. [The Sacrificial Code by Kali Malone](http://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://mohammadsound.bandcamp.com/album/egoismo?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### MMMD – Egoismo ##### Antifrost | [Bandcamp](https://mohammadsound.bandcamp.com/album/egoismo?ref=jamesreeves.co) Hymnal chanting, cello, and drone from Greece that feels like an existential shiver in church. [Egoismo by MMMD](http://mohammadsound.bandcamp.com/album/egoismo?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://monokultur.bandcamp.com/album/lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Monokultur – LP ##### 2019 | [Bandcamp](https://monokultur.bandcamp.com/album/lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) A sprawling record that stitches together detuned weirdness, pastoral ambience, and icy Swedish vocals that conjure images of dead rock-and-rollers with cigarettes bouncing on their lips while guitars screech and purr at the margins. [LP by Monokultur](http://monokultur.bandcamp.com/album/lp?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/solastalgia?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Rafael Anton Irisarri – Solastalgia ##### Room 40 | [Bandcamp](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/solastalgia?ref=jamesreeves.co) Symphonic ambience that sounds like an elegy for snow fields and decaying glaciers—and it introduced me to the defining word for the next decade: [*solastalgia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solastalgia?ref=jamesreeves.co), the mental or existential distress caused by environmental change. [Solastalgia by Rafael Anton Irisarri](http://room40.bandcamp.com/album/solastalgia?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Topdown Dialectic – Vol. 2 ##### Peak Oil | [Bandcamp](https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2?ref=jamesreeves.co) A welcome return to the anonymous mythos of techno when mysterious transmissions appeared on white labels without context, origin, or reference point. These eight unnamed tracks from an unknown source rework the best elements of the genre for stranger days. [Vol. 2 by Topdown Dialectic](http://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://vaticanshadow.bandcamp.com/album/american-flesh-for-violence?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Vatican Shadow – American Flesh for Violence ##### Hospital Productions | [Bandcamp](https://vaticanshadow.bandcamp.com/album/american-flesh-for-violence?ref=jamesreeves.co) An exercise in grainy drums and haunted tones with bombastic titles that increasingly sound less like paranoid conspiracy and more like reality. Throughout the year, Dominick Fernow has been steadily reissuing cassettes from his Vatican Shadow project, and with titles like *Media in the Service of Terror*, *Oklahoma Military Academy*, and *Rubbish of the Floodwaters*, this feels like the logical soundtrack for the final seasons of America. [American Flesh For Violence by Vatican Shadow](http://vaticanshadow.bandcamp.com/album/american-flesh-for-violence?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/life-metal?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Sunn O))) – Life Metal / Pyroclasts ##### Southern Lord | [Bandcamp](https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/life-metal?ref=jamesreeves.co) A spartan workhorse built from slow-motion guitars that feel like they’re holding the world together even when everything feels like it’s falling apart. [Life Metal by SUNN O)))](http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/life-metal?ref=jamesreeves.co) [](https://boomkat.com/products/volume-massimo?ref=jamesreeves.co) ### Alessandro Cortini – Volume Massimo ##### Mute | [Boomkat](https://boomkat.com/products/volume-massimo?ref=jamesreeves.co) |[ Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6P2BzPJFGQ650iteh8acXC?si=YC-cakPcQ3u9cWgQhtV-Tw&ref=jamesreeves.co) Sleek synthesizers that swerve, glide, and snarl before opening up into something utterly cinematic that left me thinking about making a cognitive leap into the future. [VOLUME MASSIMO by Alessandro Cortini](https://cortini.bandcamp.com/album/volume-massimo?ref=jamesreeves.co) See also: - [2023 Rotation](https://www.jamesreeves.co/2023-rotation/) - [2022 Rotation](https://www.jamesreeves.co/2022-rotation/) - [2021 Rotation](https://www.jamesreeves.co/2021-rotation/) - [2020 Rotation](https://www.jamesreeves.co/2020-rotation/) - [2018 Rotation](https://www.jamesreeves.co/2018-rotation/)