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 […]
I’ve known Soft Blue Shimmer for a relatively short amount of time (or forever if we’re considering 2020 time). My first exposure to them came from Gaby Chiongbian’s kaleidoscopic picture of the band playing the Echoplex way back in February (almost a lifetime ago). “Surely this band must sound as dreamy as Gaby’s picture,” I […]