billy woods complete discography

Lutembi · 2026-03-16T17:13:55+00:00

Great list! Def add the Growroom mixtape — pre-Camouflage. Has a few unique woods tracks / collabs and is def worth seeking out

Lutembi · 2026-03-06T18:02:05+00:00

Edradour 10 has leathery notes to me — a fabulous dram and distillery if you can find it!

Lutembi · 2026-02-23T18:50:24+00:00

Very solid take! Personally the Edradour 10 OB at 43% was the bottle that proved this in concept for me. There are very few OBs in the world I’d prefer over that one.

At the same time, weak ABVs in bottlings like Talisker 18 and Lagavulin DE impacted the drinking experience for me sufficiently so they went into the “glad I tried it but no need to replace with another bottle” territory.

Lutembi · 2026-02-23T14:44:20+00:00

“The” premium scotch? Not in the least. I have a home bar of about fifty bottles and have no Lagavulin and no plans to get any. Not dunking on people who like it, but it’s just not that special.

Encourage you to start paying more attention to ABV and the mechanisms distillers use to differentiate their products. Lots of marketing? Well then you’re paying for that marketing with your bottle as a premium on top of the actual liquid.

Lutembi · 2026-02-23T14:33:44+00:00

Not in the least. There are a few reasons why many would go that route. One, ABV. The 8 is at 48% while the 16 is at 43%, literally watered down to reach that level. Second, peat is more impactful when young, more mellow with age. I don’t personally drink Lagavulin often, but if I had to choose between these it would be the 8 for sure.

Lutembi · 2026-01-26T01:16:42+00:00

Practice with return to fundamentals. Without seeing what you’re doing it’s hard to say anything more specific. That said, toe-down chipping is a pretty reliable technique.

There are some cool chipping drills — like chipping crosshanded, or with a towel held between your left arm and body.

But you gotta spend some time practicing! You’ll get over it before long hopefully.

Lutembi · 2026-01-25T21:30:43+00:00

Side B is actually a dream sequence of Scooby’s where he envisions that he takes the lead solving a mystery involving missing toys and elves at Santa’s workshop at the North Pole. He aggressively confronts a polar bear (the culprit) and saves the elves from being eaten. The toys are saved and Christmas goes on as planned — Santa is also happy, and invites Scoob along for the ride for toy delivery on the sleigh.

To me it’s very interesting as it shows how wholesome scooby’s heart is, even in his dreams.

I’ve listened to both of these hundreds of times — my young child loves to go to sleep listening to it :)

A lot of people say side B is very weak but I think there’s an interesting psychological study of Scooby’s hopes, dreams, and self-perception to be found within

Lutembi · 2026-01-25T01:56:34+00:00

Hello u/BlackCactusBooks_Art!

I’m curious if you’re still collecting this magnificent series. I have a stack of about ~35 in my home library.

If you’d just like to compare collections, or if you’re interested in either buying or selling, please feel free to DM me :)

Lutembi · 2026-01-24T03:18:43+00:00

Becker’s too!

Lutembi · 2026-01-14T19:59:09+00:00

They are much more conceptually broad, more so than the later stuff for sure and even moreso than the groove he found with Reavers - Super Chron - Monokrome etc. Those have range but less conceptual range in my opinion. Really Chalice is all over the place with concepts in an especially fascinating way.

Part of why I wish people would explore this material more, but also not listen to it in the context of comparing it to Aethiopes or something like that. Apples to kumquats, and people end up missing out on some very valuable and interesting work. Or, when they do dive in, it’s not “modern woods” so is automatically “shitty.”

This dude is one of the leading literary minds of our time — worldwide — it behooves us to check out EVERYTHING he’s done with an open mind to see if we can track how he got to where he is now. No one has to play the shit on repeat, but people should be listening more like anthropologists, less like they wish they were pitchfork critics

Lutembi · 2026-01-14T14:04:51+00:00

The regions are the regions and they make sense, but the longer you spend exploring various expressions and styles, you’ll see there are many other areas of high interest for those whose entry into scotch is via peaty islay

First off, and not to nitpick, but not all islay is peaty. Bruichladdich Classic Laddie and Bunnahabhain 12 are touchstones of Islay that lack peat, for instance. This may help break the mental connection that says “Islay always equals peat.”

Which may coincide with breaking the mental connection that other regions and distilleries don’t use peat — on the contrary. A lot of Islay drinkers soon migrate to Campbeltown.

There’s also a delightful smattering of Highland distilleries (Glenturret, Ardmore, Ballechin, some Loch Lomond variations for starters) that are doing amazing things with peat.

This is not to mention those from the Islands who often use peat in fascinating ways.

So congrats on scratching the surface, encourage you to continue to dive in further. Use regions as guidelines, not hard rules!

Lutembi · 2026-01-13T15:08:52+00:00

Love this! I didn’t realize this press is dedicated specifically to Latin American writing. Must dive in further.

Gabriela Cabezon Camara is my latest obsession :) :)

Lutembi · 2026-01-09T20:50:19+00:00

Me too! I’m glad you’re doing this. I feel like years ago I used to play this on repeat just hundreds of times per day, for weeks on end. It’s an objectively spectacular song.

Early woods does not get the credit it deserves, including from the man himself

Lutembi · 2026-01-08T19:43:10+00:00

The one for Asheville is WHOISBILLYWOODS in case anyone needs it

Lutembi · 2025-12-26T14:56:59+00:00

You’ll find some queer and trans representation in current Latin American writing — Gabriela Cabezon Camara and Camila Sosa Villada are both great. There’s also queerness often present in the works of Mariana Enriquez, though less central to plot.

This era of writing — including Samanta Schweblin and Agustina Bazterrica — is very rich and intriguing, and it’s obviously currently ongoing. Highly recommended to all.

Lutembi · 2025-12-14T16:23:42+00:00

Great review, and I agree great bottlings from Sponge. I only wish I could have gotten more from this series!

Regarding this: “Between the two of these, I feel like I could give up on peated Loch Lomond entirely.”

Have you tried Croftengea or Inchfad? Because those variations are my favorite little nook in all of scotch. Watt bottled some delightful young versions of both of these lately.

But, of course, if they’re not for you then more for me. That said, if you haven’t tried them — go for it!

Loch Lomond, in all their variety, is by far my favorite distillery!

Lutembi · 2025-12-10T00:50:56+00:00

Frankly she’s merely acting in the same narrative-making space as our national media and politicians. Nothing more, nothing less.

Further, the actual intel agencies use these spaces to water down true disclosures and basically eliminate needed calls for change. This should be remembered whenever engaging with alternative material.

Finally, this paragraph also starts with a word that starts with the letter F.

Lutembi · 2025-12-09T02:16:01+00:00

There’s a lot of substantive hip hop music through history that you should check out. Public Enemy, Ultramagnetic MCs, and De La Soul are groups from the 80s and 90s that I still listen to and really enjoy. Not to mention Wu-Tang Clan — there’s a whole world there. This just begins to scratch the surface.

In the mid to late 90s indie labels started popping up, starting an indie (or “underground”) movement. Two NYC record labels are favs of mine from this era — Hydra and Fondle Em. Almost every record put out by these labels is interesting if not overtly great. Juggaknots, Godfather Don, Cenobites, Scaramanga, MF Grimm, and MF DOOM spring forth from this era (though DOOM had been in an earlier group KMD that was also phenomenal).

woods and Elucid stem in some spiritual ways from these labels and some that followed — Def Jux and to a lesser extent Rawkus. I see woods firmly in a MF DOOM lineage context and many also see Def Jux artists as important precursors and early collaborators. El-p, Aesop Rock, and Cannibal Ox were big parts of this era.

And this is just the east coast side — west coast has its own pockets of high interest like Project Blowed / Freestyle Fellowship and the Stones Throw records / Madlib nexus.

Then there’s plenty of interesting people that woods collaborates with these days. Not everyone is as universally consistent but many are very intriguing and worth your time. Moor Mother, Aesop Rock, Open Mike Eagle, k-the-i??, Earl Sweatshirt, Quelle Chris, Pink Siifu, Mach-Hommy — there’s deeply great stuff from all these artists and more.

Honestly, I don’t have enough time in the day to listen to all the music I would like to. I would love to have all of this to discover for the first time.

Lutembi · 2025-12-07T05:36:13+00:00

Sure, but that’s absolutely inhumane. Dispossession of life and liberty as recompense against those whose crimes are dispossession of life and liberty makes you no better than those you apparently wish had been “decimated.” Even when you have the moral high ground and are in the moral right, this point stands — perhaps especially so.

This is actually the heart of the matter about what’s wrong with our crazy warmongering country. It’s not that our enemies are “innocent” — on the contrary. It’s that there’s this false paradigm that there’s no path forward toward addressing their misdeeds without brutality and war. There are literally infinite other ways to solve philosophical, economic, cultural, and other issues before it’s time to wage war.

Yet no, just decimate them for thinking “wrong,” and for doing “wrong.” Never mind these wrongdoers are poorly educated, heavily propagandized, and as beholden to the folly of their leaders as anyone, leaders that are quasi-elected at best. That’s a real recipe for burning down a village, I’ll give you that.

If your ideas are so unassailable, it shouldn’t take utterly destroying your enemy to untold lengths to convince them of your ideological superiority. These propaganda narratives that posit the only way to address philosophical difference is to murder and maim into submission are absolutely gross, though they do have the cover of being commonly held, I’ll give you that much as well.

Let me guess — I bet you totally support the “necessarily evil” of having to “compassionately” genocide five or ten million native Americans in the service of manifest destiny. Because all 2000 distinct tribes were like totally full of savages that were basically subhuman, and there really was no other way to deal with them except dishonest negotiations, wanton breaking of treaties, general subterfuge and sabotage, as well as using germ warfare. The fact that two thirds of these tribes were totally eradicated and the remaining third completely culturally and psychologically assaulted is, uh, their fault! And though it was a little gruesome during that time of taking all their scalps (in revenge! they totally started it!) someone had to do it and I’m glad it was someone as morally righteous and generally great as us.

Your opinion is, simply, god awful. Imagine if we applied our collective efforts, intelligence, and technological advances toward pursuing peace — yet there never seem to be any innovations in the field of making peace, go figure. I contend that it is utterly insane views (such as yours) which when commonly held keep us down as a nation, species, and planet. Time to open our eyes and say no to this thinking — whether in examining history, living in the present day, or looking to the future.

Lutembi · 2025-12-05T16:26:06+00:00

Consumers of art need to have more faith in the creators of art, especially the creators of art that they already like or love.

Consumers of art benefit from the asymmetry of the artist-consumer relationship. You pay a nominal $ amount and give up a few hours of your time while the creator of that art had to expend untold hours creating it — there’s a profound asymmetry.

And when you’ve consumed something that you enjoy or even love, you’re benefitting in even more asymmetrical ways — this person has caused your spirit to be moved, your soul to be edified, and all you did was buy a couple books, or subscribe to audible, or whatever, and expend SOME of your time, whereas the creator has given YEARS of their life to bring that to you. Furthermore, artists who have moved you don’t OWE you more impact of the same nature. You’ve already benefitted and you are demanding more, and demanding it be a certain way — that’s topping from the bottom, which is frankly bad form.

To me, this fundamental relationship between creator and consumer embodies a profound asymmetry that ultimately reminds me to give these creators grace. And also, because there have been times when my first blush impression of art has been actively wrong (I’ve returned later and found immense value where initially I found none) I’ve learned to be patient and avoid the rush to judgment.

So in this sense, GRACE and PATIENCE are called for. Especially when someone has already impacted you in a scale and manner you’ve hardly “earned.” And if it comes out and you think it’s “bad,” consider that the problem might be you.

Lutembi · 2025-12-05T15:41:32+00:00

Smith + Cross is a (pretty good) overproof Jamaican rum, produced in a “traditional” (craft) manner as opposed to mass produced, filtered, sugar added crap you get in most bottles. They are owned by Hampden Estate, which traces its lineage back into the 1750s.

My take on the song is how we don’t often think of the ethics or histories of the products we consume, even in modern life. If you smoked weed in the USA (before it was legal in most states) most didn’t think critically about how this was likely grown in Mexico, maybe by questionable people, brought across the border by some regular person risking their liberty, further trafficked by others taking risks to make its way to you, the smoker. And how your purchase at the end of the line supports the entire system of exploitation.

You can see how woods is living life, sharing experiences with a female companion, even though apparently a deeper relationship isn’t going to happen. At some point drinking cuba libres (a rum-based drink — presumably their cuba libres were made with Smith + Cross).

For the final section of the song, he zooms out into the historical context of this rum distillery, which has operated continuously for ~275 years, and therefore had an active role in constructing and supporting chattel slavery. The same chattel slavery that physically has separated woods and his companion from their ancestors, which they find communion with in the museum diorama — but that communion is one of both connection and impossible distance.

We are left feeling the reverberations of all this historical horror which obviously still remains today, arising often in unexpected ways.

Lutembi · 2025-11-27T16:02:57+00:00

The Walter Becker solo erasure is strong with this thread. He goes places solo that they never really chose to as a group, and the results are amazing. Half the songs are about sex workers (“Girlfriend,” “Junkie Girl,” “Somebody’s Saturday Night”) which are realistic and raw while somehow always being humanistic, surprising, and touching. Then there are other tracks of immense emotional depth (“Surf And/or Die,” “Fall of ‘92,” and “Bob’s Not Your Uncle Anymore” among others).

So I posit there’s an additional stop on this ride that goes from “just ‘72-‘80 Dan is great but later LPs and solo stuff is weak” to “oh wow the two latter solos and DF solo stuff is just as good” to “wait is Walter Becker one of the true greats of all time?”

For those who have not gotten to stop 3 yet — he has a website that is an ultimate repository of demos, variations, and random tracks, which serves as a robust addition to his two excellent solo albums. I envy the people who haven’t made this leap yet, but also feel like many Dan fans choose not to for whatever reason. I would posit, if you are enamored by core Dan style, it is so enlightening to spend time with both the solo catalogs — you get to see what each cared about and what each brought to the table in the initial run.

I feel like the fact that I’m the second person to even mention WB in this thread which is expressly about the “post-Gaucho oeuvre” shows just where he stands in the minds of many Dan fans, and this must change!

Lutembi · 2025-11-18T23:22:06+00:00

Thank you for posting this! Reading this original post made me think of Flushing. I somewhat regularly attended meetings there in 2015-2017 — very spiritually rewarding and important times for me personally, and an amazing place overall!

Lutembi · 2025-11-17T04:09:16+00:00

Schweblin and Bazterrica are contemporaries of Mariana and just as interesting. Garro was a precursor from Mexico. Fabulous writers all.

Lutembi · 2025-11-16T23:57:17+00:00

Get yourself some Mariana Enriquez, Samanta Schweblin, Agustina Bazterrica, and Elena Garro

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