Well hello, Young Fathers, let us make space for you in our ears. These guys from Edinburgh are getting some attention and after a listen through their new album, it’s clear why: they have an idiosyncratic sound that teeters on the line of weird and familiar, compelling you to keep listening in a quest for resolve, which you never get. The big single off of Cocoa Sugar is In My View: dark yet lightly danceable, it will disorient you harmonically and ground you with its rhythms (again, that balance), all of which is a little confusing as a package, but life is complicated, right, so might as well have some music to reflect reality.
Confirming that he’s paying attention, the just-stepped-down founder of Blue Moon is about to release a line nonalcoholic, THC-infused beers. Which initially is like ‘hey, well done, way to keep up!’ but then… nonalcoholic beer. Raising the question, whose cultural baggage is heavier here: O’Doul’s (womp) or Mary Jane’s (so hot right how)? Solid mid-week hot-or-not.
You’re long past the age of swiping (presumptuous, but bear with me), you’re having a baby, and you’re stuck on names. Solution: Kinder, the app you swipe through to inspire the name of your forthcoming child. Here’s how it works: you enter your last name, connect with your partner’s account if you want, and then swipe through first names, banking the right-swipes as you go along. Which is a really great idea for name prompts, but you have to think there’s some muscle memory to the swiping, right? The headline writes itself: ‘Baby Swipe Subconsciously Reignites Biological Need for One-Night Stand.’ Wherever science comes out on this, I also learned you can turn on ‘Pokemon’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ name features in Kinder, and would like you to know that I’ve settled on ‘Talonflame Boyer-Dry,’ when the time comes. Or ‘Flaaffy’, depending on sex. Approved for use on pets.
Ritual is a newish company that is killing it in the vitamin space. Monthly, they send you those good-looking capsules in the picture above, and it turns out their appearance isn’t just for aesthetics. Those clear pills? They symbolize the transparency of their supply chain. And the little dots represent the ingredients that are delivered individually to support women’s health. So if you’re in the market for poetry, wellness, or both, Ritual might be for you. Give it a try.
