Hey Young World,

This is the October 2022 edition of 1520’s Record Report, our series of monthly articles in which we recommend things we’re currently into.

We’ve picked the name Record Report in honor of Hip Hop magazine The Source, which’s album review section went under that name and, when we were growing up, told us what was worth copping and what wasn’t. In our own small way, we hope to do the same.

Dark Winds (TV Series)

After finishing Longmire, which we recommended in a previous edition of Record Report, we were looking for something else like it and promptly stumbled across the 2022 series Dark Winds. Not only is it, like Longmire, a gritty police procedural that largely takes places in and around a Native American Reservation, but it even, like Longmire, features the excellent Zahn McClarnon as a Tribal Police officer. We’re hooked and can’t wait for season two.

Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak (Album)

If a tripple-disc (do kids remember what that refers to?) major label debut by a reluctant country superstar sounds like a lot to take on: we understand, but trust us, American Heartbreak is worth it. Just put it on in the background (preferably while chilling on a porch, but we can’t all be so lucky) and let Zach Bryan’s sweet, sincere melancholy wash over you. Marketers too should pay attention to Zach Bryan’s, as his success is a nice little case study of the power of authenticity.

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow (Novel)

Despite the occasional corniness inherent when anyone tries to explain video games and “gamers” to the general public, and despite a horrendously, outrageously wrong translation of the German word Zweisamkeit, this novel about three friends who make it in the video game industry and the ups and downs in their lives and relationships, is a beautiful tribute to friendship, creativity and, yes, video games. The book is pretty, too.

One Love,

Marius | 1520

P.S. This month’s cover image was made with DALL·E 2.