I tried to untangle what this means, and here’s where I ended up (2/7):

“Optics” is out now everywhere 👀 li.sten.to/optics This song is about what it’s been like growing up in a time where everything is commodified & on display...

Enjoy our August playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/73m7A…

New episode of Talking Lion w/ Nicholas Smith is out now everywhere! li.sten.to/tlnicksmith

Some songs Nathan Irving worked on - “Sitcom Wife” by Imbashlow (vocal production 🎤) open.spotify.com/track/1DlvRflN… “Hey (demo)” by abby (piano 🎹) open.spotify.com/track/5NV6vvBi…

Very much appreciated the role of smart sound design in this film

Going the wrong way at Ikea feels like glitching through a video game

Nobody is having the conversation about how the people we consider “breaking artists” (~1M-4M monthly listeners), financially speaking, make about as much as a *good salary job* but with more hrs, no benefits, and often an advance in need of recouping. Sustainability is success.

We were inspired by Chaz Cardigan’s amazing way of finding harmony in optimism & heartache. This song came emerged so quickly because of his gutting self-awareness paired with a genuine belief that things can get better. Also I love that it has a Cohen-esque “broken” Hallelujah

it’s gonna be great is probably my best song hallelujah

Enjoy our Sept. playlist- spotify.link/RkYwIkP7iDb

Way ahead of you buddy

The experience I’ve had consulting music start ups has mostly been explaining how complicated the industry is, how embedded the challenges are, & convincing them success in “disruption” is gonna mean having to play the game just like an artist/label (i.e. relying heavily on luck)

“Crossword” is out now everywhere too.fm/9ergkeb

Los Angeles-based Nathan Irving (@nateflaks) weaves beautiful crossword-minded imagery and symbolism within a stirring folk sound on “Crossword,” written during the 2020 lockdown and capturing the loneliness of bearing witness to other relationships. obscuresound.com/2023/10/nathan…

It's the time of year where I'm reminded that a song written by a Jew as a very intentional criticism of faith, made popular (& more secular) by the doomed son of a doomed folk artist, & reintroduced to pop culture by an animated ogre is somehow a quintessential "Chrismas Song"

Been saying this for ages but Spotify being THE business (rather than part of a larger model) puts its strategy constantly on the ropes

“Are you worried about AI artists?” No, no I’m really not

You asked for them, so here they are!⁣ For many years we’ve been creating songs exclusively for Meta’s Sound Collection. Many have asked where to stream these songs, so we’ve release another volume of our favorites! ⁣ “You Heard The Stories (vol. 2)” open.spotify.com/album/594DCIC9…

Hey AMC Theatres, If you’re gonna show actual ads before the trailers, could you at least have them to be in surround sound?