A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 30 Jan 2022 to 5 Feb 2022.

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1. The Fallen – Boris
2. Huge – Boris
3. Seedless Star – Cloakroom
4. Hey Man Nice Shot – Filter
5. Kaleidoscope – Ringo Deathstarr
6. Blaster – Pinkshinyultrablast
7. Glow – Slow Crush
8. Jolene – Lingua Ignota
9. Compassion For M – Aerial M
10. Dazed and Awake – Aerial M

Hyperlink to Spotify Playlist: WILT_2022-05

Notes

I was actively looking for new music at the start of the week, and came across the new Boris album, W. It has been awhile since I’ve listened to the monolithic drones Boris, but entering the halls of their sonic splendor was a familiar experience, and one that I welcome very much.

I did also want to further explore the post-grunge movement a bit more, and started putting on old bands that I used to listen to in the nineties and early-2000s, but all I could land on was adding Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter for its delicious guitar riff during the chorus. There were more songs that I came across that were good, but they did not feel like new discoveries, and I wonder if there is a subconscious block in me not wanting to feature music that I had already found incredible, as if I only looking to feature new discoveries on my listening journey. Perhaps I will reflect on this more at a later time.

While drone and post-grunge were the active searches I made, the algorithm decided that shoegaze would be the recommended genre. I included the songs that I thought had interesting counter-melodies, but overall, I find shoegaze band names and song titles more interesting than the music.

Rather bored with the listening experience, I started randomly generating radio playlists based on song titles, and stumbled across a cover of Jolene by Lingua Ignota. It doesn’t have the same desperation as the original, but there’s a certain anguish that Lingua Ignota does so well.

On the Saturday night, I decided to revisit the nineties post-rock band, Slint, to see if there were any interesting ideas that I might have missed out on. In the end, I decided to take a look at Slint guitarist, David Pajo’s other works, and under the moniker Aerial M, we find some of the gentlest and most introspective guitar work, expressed by a very innovative musician and arranger.

This week’s playlist seems a bit lackluster to me, but it might be a new experience for you. Who knows?