A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 10 Apr 2022 to 16 Apr 2022.

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1. What The Living Do – Mary Lattimore
2. Ballroom Dance Scene – Horsegirl
3. Soft Night – CARM
4. Looking Backward – Melody’s Echo Chamber
5. New Fiction – Little Dragon
6. Dear inferiority – Gridman
7. Journal of Ardency – Class Actress
8. Feathers – Poppy Ackroyd

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2022-15

Notes

We did not manage to break ten songs for this playlist. I am somewhat biased toward the quantity of ten being a completion of a musical curation likely due to the consumption of an album’s worth of music back in my teens during the late nineties and early two thousands.

But in reality, this count likely has little bearing in today’s playlists of an almost infinite number of songs. The potential is there, but so is the madness.

I was drawn to the reverb drenched synth sounds of Mary Lattimore’s What The Living Do. Both angelic as well as contemplative, I think it helped set a mood for where we are going.

Horsegirl is a new band I discovered, and I think they much to offer.

CARM brings some delicious trumpet compositions to the table.

I definitely added Looking Backward by Melody’s Echo Chamber for its bassline. It did make me think of early Little Dragon.

So I did search out Little Dragon to see what the Swedish group had been up to, and New Fiction brings some of that charm and sensuality from their earlier discography, but combined with the maturity and cheekiness in their later songwriting and arrangement. It’s a mood of sorts.

Plenty of interesting beats on Dear inferiority by Gridman and likely bears further research.

I think there has been an undercurrent of pop music in this week’s playlist, and that is probably why Journal of Ardency by Class Actress has found its way to the playlist.

Poppy Ackroyd once again finds her way into my playlists. I am definitely drawn to her piano compositions. If anything, their contemplative offer some solace amidst the chaos or melancholia that accompanies everyday life.

A part of me also wonders if I have not heard as much music this week because I started playing Elden Ring.