tunesnstuff

         This is the first installment of 5 Tunes I Like Today , a series about songs that I have found recently that I am enjoying on a given day. This will span many genres and styles, but warning: there will be a lot of underground rap and indie music! This is not an assessment of any objective value; the only thing that matters to me is how much I enjoy the music. Occasionally, I'll intersperse some musings of my own as well as photography I do. (Featured here is a tree in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, taken by me) 1. xaviersobased - crisp dubs         This song was released in late 2021, but I only recently found it when it was featured as Pitchfork's tenth-best song of the 2020s . In the track, xaviersobased (born Xavier Lopez) floats over a self-produced beat of a guitar loop, drums and 808s that jerks back and forth between tempos, sometimes mid-verse. He raps about "crisp dubs" (his term for $20 bills), flaunting his we...