This website just turned 16 years old this month and back then it was born out of and into a very dynamic ecosystem of blogs and people html-curating a MySpace page and sharing music on it to their “top friends”. It was the early days of social media! One of the spiritual beacons of this time was Blackbird Blackbird whose unique way of sampling and use of synths and other electronic techniques inspired many people, myself included, and contributed chiefly to the rise of the Chillwave genre.
Anyway, much like this poultry-adjacent media outlet, Blackbird Blackbird is still at it in 2026 and he just released a new studio album, his fifth, titled Dreamstuck. He wrote, mixed and mastered the 22 songs by himself, in his home studio in California. Listening to this feels like looking back in time but through the lens of today: his sound undeniably carries the trademark Blackbird Blackbird touch of tempo and mixing on the vocals, while feeling all the way 2026 at the same time, bridging the gap between hazy nostalgia and maintaining a positive outlook. The whole album is a great listen throughout, find Two Peas In A Pod attached below, one of the quieter tracks on there.
