James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mixtapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
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James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
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James A. Reeves

James A. Reeves

The Red Curtain

The Red Curtain

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through the ruins of vintage ballads and slow-motion noir.
Tokyo Notes

Tokyo Notes

Landed in Tokyo. I do not know the day of the week or why it’s still dark outside.
Notes on God

Notes on God

Hell can be described in a thousand ways, but heaven remains impossible to grasp.
Return to Death Prom

Return to Death Prom

Where the reverb is heavy and the souls are haunted.
A Walk in London

A Walk in London

A delightful collage of me walking through London three years ago.
Figure With Meat

Figure With Meat

The ambiguity forces us to supply our own nightmares.
Slow Vessels

Slow Vessels

I’m returning to my spiritual practice of slowing my favorite songs down to a crawl.
Strange Shapes in the Night

Strange Shapes in the Night

Dedicated to the great American tradition of speaking to the heavens through car-wreck calendars and junkyard rockets.
Naming the Snow

Naming the Snow

“God is an experience,” an old man said as he reached for another cookie.
Holy Ruins

Holy Ruins

Some wobbly loops from T. Rex and Roxy Music, a static-ridden visitation from Nancy Sinatra, and other moments of holy imperfection.
2024 Rotation

2024 Rotation

Here are the albums I played the most this year, the ones I kept revisiting because they challenged, delighted, and reassured.
Professional Holiday Party

Professional Holiday Party

Five joyous classics from Chicago, Detroit, and Berlin. So sing along: “If snow was black, I’d wear black shades and drive a black car.”

You can feel the geography shift when you see all that big pine and cold water.

At some point the screen became the world, and now we’re haunting it.

The ghosts of old standards, summoned for whatever comes next.

Broadcasting from somewhere between the bells of a temple and the heat of a night market.

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through the ruins of vintage ballads and slow-motion noir.

Anything worthwhile rests on a knife’s edge like the delicate art of falling asleep.

Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

This man was the antichrist. Yes, he was what the end of civilization looked and sounded like.

It’s tempting to classify Death Prom as mere nostalgia, but it is a complicated haunting.

A few minutes after midnight in the Mojave desert, a preacher appears on a dead radio channel.

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