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, […]
If there’s one song that spoke to the power of YouTube algorithms in 2018, it would have to be Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love”. Almost out of nowhere, this decades-old Japanese pop song which had once dominated the charts in its native Japan found second life as one of 2018’s surprise Internet hits. Takeuchi’s song, which […]