A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 19 Dec 2021 to 25 Dec 2021.
WILT_2021-51
- No Other – Gene Clark
- Silver Raven – Gene Clark
- Find It – L’Rain
- Bat – L’Rain
- Space 1 – Nala Sinephro
- Twin Plagues – Wednesday
- discrete (the market) – Claire Rousay
- Station to Station – Mega Bog
- Strong, Calm, Slow – Astrid Sonne
- Reconstellated – Karima Walker
- tusk – Claire Rousay
- Drunk – More Eaze, Claire Rousay
Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-51
Notes
For chronological reference, this was Christmas Week. Christmas falls on a Saturday this week.
I discovered the music of Gene Clark through a playlist that features recordings tht renowned bass sessionist, Leland Sklar appears on.
No Other was immediately captivating for its melodic, octaver-processed bass lines, gospel-style backup vocals, and predates the psychedelic folk rock coming out of America’s west coast in the late sixties.
Somehow came across L’Rain’s music which I found immediately gravitating for her experimental and hypnotic vocal performances and musical arrangements. Find It really stands out as a drifting song that flows head first into some sort of unknowing excitement.
There is also some really good ambient and experimental music being featured in this playlist. Space 1, and the music featuring Claire Rousay. A highlight to me is the percussive cacophony of tusk.
Twin Plagues by Wednesday is just some really, really good no-wave hard rock that is reminiscent of bands like True Widow and Bardo Pond. I really miss this music. I might start re-exploring the sub-genre and revisit old favourites.
Strong, Calm, Slow by Astrid Sonne is also a haunting vocal-only recording that I just had to include because of how aching everything was.
This playlist doesn’t sound like Christmas was on it, but it’s got a chilly warmth that you sometimes find just as the sun is setting on a snow-dusted day, or how the sun rises after a night of blizzard-ry.
YYYYMMMDD 