Can you believe it’s been five whole years since From the Intercom started making year-end lists? Five. Whole. Years! I still remember sitting alone in the local coffee shop (which has since closed down), typing away at a list that I thought that no one would bother to look at. My selection process for the […]
The 25 albums that we picked as the “Best of 2020” this year nearly all tap into a familiar running theme: the comfort of nostalgia. Amidst a stressful hurricane of a year, many of us here at From the Intercom turned to albums that were inspired by simpler times, recapturing the magic of rumbling dancefloors, […]
2020 was a weird year. I don’t think it’s necessary for me to go on about why 2020 stands out as one for the history books, but it’s an important factor that has heavily influenced the way that we consumed music over the past 12 months. In a year filled with tragedy, deranged politics, and […]
At one point in SAWAYAMA, Japanese-British pop star Rina Sawayama’s debut album, the early 00s pop atmosphere of the album transforms into something completely different. Suddenly, it sounds like you’re being transported into a completely new place–out of the studio and into a stadium where devoted stans are cheering Rina’s name over and over again. […]
Deciding which songs would be on our Best Songs of 2019 list was, in many ways, leagues different than it was for 2018. When I was putting our list together back in 2018, it was mostly a singular effort–I was scouring Spotify playlists, combing through YouTube recommendations and SoundCloud links in order to find the […]