The Digital Garden

2026

4 min read

Pantheon

I’m sick of the Spotify Wrapped being wrong about what I listened to! The pantheon is a way to organize what I’ve been listening to for the year almost like a snapshot.

  • Tier 1 - Top 10
  • Tier 2 - Go to favorites
  • Tier 3 - Amazing and will be in the rotation
  • Tier 4 - Great albums with occasional listens
  • Tier 5 - Seasonal

Tier 1

  • TBD later this year

Tier 2

  • Sd-3 - Loukeman
    • Nostalgia even when its new.
    • John Bird Song
  • Brown Sugar - D’Angelo
    • Heavy rotation on the post dinner sunset walks to wind down the day.
    • Brown Sugar, Jonz in My Bonz, Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine, Smooth, Cruisin’

Tier 3

  • The Chicks - Fly
    • Ready to Run, Cowboy Take Me Away, Goodbye Earl, Sin Wagon
  • Blue Ringed Baby - Born Online
    • Nihilistic Tendencies, A Break From the Ads,
  • Massive Shoe - Way Dynamic
    • In Review, Miffed It, Hurricane
  • Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
  • Hip Harp (Japan) - Dorothy Ashby
    • Moonlight In Vermont, Charmaine
  • Its Been Awful - Isiah Rashad
    • M.O.M., SAME SH!T, BOY IN RED, SCARED TO LOOK DOWN, CAMERAS, NUTHIN 2 HIDE
  • The House is Burning - Isiah Rashad
  • Let God Sort Em Out - Clipse

Tier 4

  • Nickel Creek - Self Titled
  • Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Davis Quintet
    • Not sure if he meant literal cooking with this title, but its an incredible cooking album
    • My Funny Valentine - Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 2007, Tune Up/When Lights Are Low
  • The Most Dear and The Future - ear
  • POMPEII//UTILITY - Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, SURF GANG
    • Morning, Post Gym and Caffeinated on the weekend had me looking at this different.
    • Minty, Kirkland
  • K.I.D.S (Deluxe) - Mac Miller
    • OG sneaker culture, snapbacks and Big Jerm on production. High school nostalgia to the max.
    • Nikes on My Feet, Senior Skip Day, The Spins, Paper Route, Ride Around, Knock Knock, Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza
  • Enter the 37th Chamber - El Michels Affair
  • Moon Safari - Air
    • Le femme d’argent, All I Need, You Make It Easy

Tier 5

  • II: From the Westside, With Love - Dom Kennedy
    • Quintessential for any early 2010s Hip Hop or summer pool playlist. Has me thinking about LA and how popular it was to move there during those early influencer days.
    • When I Come Around, Platinum Chanel
  • 山と海 (Mountains and Sea) - Little Tempo
    • I love The Taste of Tea OST and aspire to fulfill the vibe of that movie in the sunshine with this album.
    • ランデブー (Rendezvous), Mellow stone

Not Tiered (Yet)

  • CORINIAN - TiaCorine
    • High Demand, Was Hannin
  • This Music May Contain Hope - Raye
    • Winter Woman, Fields., Joy., Goodbye Henry.
  • The Great Divide - Noah Kahan

Listen List

  • Pink Moon - Nick Drake
  • Rinsed - Dean Blunt
  • Pharoh Sanders
  • Destin Laurel
  • Okay Coleman
  • In Ribbons - Pale Saints
  • Ballads - John Coltrane
  • Aftermath - Rolling Stones
  • Goo - Sonic Youth
  • Okay Computer - Radiohead
  • I Can Hear The Beating As One - *Yo La Tengo
  • Mama’s Gun - Erykah Badu
  • The Memory of Trees - Enya
  • Piggietales - Piggietales
  • Jason Bourne - McKimmie
  • Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
  • So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star
  • Planet Frog - Action Bronson
  • Inferno - Boards of Canada
  • Time Heals Everything - Blue and Exile
  • At Least She’s Beautiful - RJ The Weirdo
  • Hood Olympics 2 - Mike Shabb
  • Fidelity - Yaya Bey
  • SELFMADE - Ankhlejohn
  • Sd-2, Sd-1 - Loukeman
  • Bobby Hutcherson
  • LSD and the Search for God - LSD and the Search for God
  • Udai Bath
  • I really love you - The Ambassadors
  • I Can’t Stop - The Notations
  • False Alarm - Krystal
  • Self titled - The Hard Quartet
  • New Threats from the Soul - Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band
  • Ridin’ Dirty - UGK
  • In Europe Vol. 1 - Eric Dolphy
  • Take no Prisoners Live - Lou Reed
  • Naturally - J.J. Cale

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