WILT_2021-23

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 6 Jun 2021 to 12 Jun 2021.

1. Better Change Your Mind – William Onyeabor
2. Afro Harping – Brandee Younger
3. Sekt um 12 – Modeselektor
4. Night – Kelly Lee Owens
5. Abu Simbel – WhoMadeWho
6. Want You So Bad – The Vaccines
7. 廻廻奇譚 (Kaikai Kitan)- Eve
8. Windswept (Acrone Remix) – Acrone, Jonny Jewel
9. Pink Lunettes – Pond
10. YYZ – Rush
11. Talk About it – Jungle

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-23

Notes

This week features an exceedingly haphazard playlist. Work has been quite intense so a lot of music faded into the background for me. I suppose I also did not spend a lot of time with music in my downtime as I did start watching two animes recommended by the folk at Bonsai Pop. The track 廻廻奇譚 (Kaikai Kitan) is the opening sequence to the anime 呪術廻戦 (Jujustu Kaisen), and it did spark a shortlived trek into the lands of Math Rock, which I did notice that many younger bands seem to be gravitating towards. I think there’s something about the technicality of the genre that some younger markets gravitate towards because it is potentially a counter culture to the more manufactured mainstream popular music.

I believe I started the week by coming across William Onyeabor’s Better Change Your Mind on an radio mix put together by Shigeto and broadcast by NTS. Lyrically, it grabbed my attention when I was on one of my walks, as it seemed to encapsulate the macro forces shaping each nations’ foreign policy and economic policy, and it stands out more poignantly because nothing seems to have particular changed from a macro perspective between 1978 to 2021.

Everything else feels like a mish mash of electronic, funk, dance, rock. It might be interesting that rock is making a comeback. I do remember listening to some tracks by Bloc Party and Foals as they do feature more frenetic rhythms, but I did not think to include them here.

This feels like a weird, lackluster musical week. I do wonder what the cause of this apathy is.