James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age. Read more.
Midnight Radio
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A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age. Read more.
Midnight Radio
Ruminations, reverberations, and a five-track mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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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.”
The Heart Accumulates Microcracks

The Heart Accumulates Microcracks

Psychedelic lamentations, Alabama soul, and baroque synthesizers respond to a Very Kind Listener's request for a soundtrack to accommodate a slowly breaking heart.
Brutal Times

Brutal Times

Because true freedom is not thinking about the president every day.
Grey

Grey

Yesterday a man who smelled like gasoline attempted to enter the Capitol with a flare gun.
There Will Be No Armageddon

There Will Be No Armageddon

As we teeter on the edge of several unpleasant possible futures, here are five of the most reassuring songs I know.

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

Midnight Radio

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

Midnight Radio

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

Midnight Radio

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

Midnight Radio

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

Midnight Radio

Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

Midnight Radio

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

Philosophy

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

Midnight Radio

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

Albums

The artist’s obsession becomes the listener’s obsession.

Essays
God 39
Art 31
Autobiography 29
Reading 27
Midnight Radio 25
Dreams 24
Influences 20
Weather 19
Grief 16
Movies 14
Process 13
Fiction 12
Midnight Radio
Ruminations, reverberations, and a five-track mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.
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