John Paul Davis
My name is John Paul Davis. I write poetry, build things on the web with code, make music and visual art. I love making things. This website is mostly about the things I make and do.
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Best Winter Album By A Duo Or Group -
Show-off -
Adventurous mostly acoustic arrangements paired with unconventional & poetic lyrics buoyed by singalongable, wide-ranging melodies make for a dreamlike, joyful clutch of tunes.
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It Continues -
Stretch Goal -
Lush arrangements & riveting, winning melodies belie the intimacy & discontent of the lyrics as the singer-songwriter asks big questions & spares none from his biting wit, not even himself
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Getting A Feel For It -
I Don't Like Doing This With An Audience -
After a decade of experimentation & irony, U2 write an album of melodic, earnest, sincere, soaring songs that look for & find hope for people stuck or in difficult transition.
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Think Again -
Keep Watch -
Having attained superstardom, Prince follows up with a left-turn album musically & lyrically focused on spiritual matters, reaching through darkness for paradise.
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Tell Us Why You Think You'd Be A Good Fit -
Texture as a Kind of Motion -
The DJ/producer pays tribute to his ailing father, examining mortality & legacy, celebrating a rich life with this hooky, seamless set of chopped & reassembled funky, soulful tracks.
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Family Values -
Alignment -
The turntablist creates an album entirely out of sampled music, the first of its kind, filled with haunting, funky, melodic earworms that function as a soundtrack for the liminal.
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Eager and Ready -
Everyone Was Waiting -
The pianist performs solo, playing Gershwin, Monk, Nick Drake, Radiohead, adding passionate, florid, discriminating improvisations for an engrossing journey through 20th century music.
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Restoration -
Crystal Cathedral -
Curated from 10 years' of recordings, the album serves as a celebration, a record & a narrative told in the raw, energetic, spiritual, honest colors of the Boss's matchless live act
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Enthusiasm
