<1000 Club: Beige Monk’s dream world.

The latest edition of the <1000 Club is yet another extended grievance note directed towards Spotify CEO Daniel EK. I also dive into the amazing and underrated psych-folk of Beige Monk, who’s written a lot of varied and interesting music over the past couple of years.

Her explorative albums take journeys through bizarre and obscured dream worlds, like personal excavations made fit for public consumption. There’s a scrappy demo-ish quality that could well arise from bedroom production techniques, but she fully uses that to her advantage, leaning into on the autobiographical qualities of folk. Even the wild shots of noise and textural experimentation read like journal entries of emotional outpouring.

The full thing is available now over at Loud and Quiet