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February 12, 2020

Listen: Alucinao by Against All Logic

You may know Nicolas Jaar for his Latin-infused electronic dance music. And that’s precisely why he set up the alias, Against All Logic, to make something more experimental. After weaving frenetic machine sounds into one of the top albums of 2018, he’s just dropped another LP and this one is raucous A.F. A listen feels like sitting in a basement with the lights flickering on and off, in an exhilarating, where-is-this-night-going kind of way, and the single “Alucinao” (“Illusions”) leads the charge. Bolstered by appearances from Estado Unido and FKA Twigs, it transports you to an action scene in a warehouse, percussion-heavy and driving, but it’s tripped out enough that it’s probably all in your imagination. You are, after all, at your desk or on the train or drinking coffee or something, aren’t you? Listen here.

 

Starbucks is wellnessing

Starbucks sees the Goop wave and wants to reassure you that you can still participate from inside their stores. This month, they’re rolling out a wellness line featuring vitamin-laced coffee, coffee with turmeric, and coffee with double the caffeine (at which point you should probably just join the warehouse party and seek out something harder). In any case, thanks to Nestlé, who developed the products with Starbucks’ blessing, you should be able to find all this at the grocery store, which also happens to carry things like turmeric and regular multi-vitamins, in addition to coffee, all separately, for individual consumption. (You’ll have to look elsewhere for cocaine.)

Back inside the store: “clean drugs”

As a reminder that everything in your life is dirty, we have a new product category: “clean” meds. A company called Genexa has just developed a line that leaves the inactive additives out of over-the-counter pain killers, cold medicine, antacids and other light medications. And that’s potentially exciting— exciting enough that Goop already stocks them, in fact— except that, being homeopathic treatments, none of the products has yet proven to do anything. Better pair them with turmeric coffee to be safe.

A word for your next shop $

Whether you’re ordering turmeric, Tums, or a new jacket, wouldn’t it be nice to get a deal? That’s what the Honey browser extension is for. It automatically finds coupons and promo codes at more than 30,000 online stores (including several that sell coffee and vitamins, FYI). It’s free and easy to install, and works with pretty much any major browser. Get it and save your monies.

 

Shoutout to the capitalists who brought us “cleanliness is next to godliness.”

Margot

 

 

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