A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 26 Jun 2022 to 2 Jul 2022.

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1. Sundown – deathcrash
2. NEW HEART DESIGN – Turnstile
3. Silver Shadow – Eamon The Destroyer
4. Squarepusher Theme – Squarepusher
5. Fifzteen – You Slut!
6. Sympathetic Cycle – Surgeons Girl
7. Dawn Of New Day – John Carroll Kirby, Laraaji
8. The Conversation – Dictaphone
9. Weight of the Earth, on Paper – Mega Bog

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2022-26

Notes

Heard Sundown on a quiet Sunday night. The kind of music you want accompanying you on a long drive in the dead of the night.

It was a matter of time before Turnstile found its way to my playlists. I happened to chance across the new promo video for NEW HEART DESIGN, and decided that it would be a worthy inclusion into this week’s list, particularly for its 80’s inspired chorus and reverb-laden guitar riff during the verse, that also launches into the chorus that calls out the tonality of the hardcore genre during the same decade. Outstanding is also singer Brenden Yates, who delivers an enchanting and energetic performance that really sells the urgency behind the song.

I believe I was exploring recommended albums on Spotify and landed on Eamon The Destroyer, because it is an intriguing name (to me). The first song off the album A Small Blue Car is Silver Shadow. Overall, the entire song reminds me of an intro that could have been written by Silver Mt Zion. But what really drew me in to the song was the recurring guitar (or banjo?) motif that adds that slither of melancholy that sticks out like a thread ready to unravel.

As I commuted to work one day, Squarepusher Theme came on, and it is a brilliant bass performance atop a sick d&b groove. I think the instrumentation is particularly light, but that just serves to highlight the virtuosity of the producer. I expected nothing less.

I rarely say no to tasteful math-rock that does not overstay its welcome. Well done by You Slut!.

Sympathetic Cycle features a mesmerising electronic music arrangement, with many different facets that I could lose myself into.

John Carroll Kirby does it again. Dawn Of New Day is an ethereal song full of bliss. The kind of euphoria that gently lifts from the ground after the oppression of night and its terrors have passed. But only in that instance.

To begin to understand Dictaphone, is to get to know the names of multi-instrumentalists Oliver Doerell, Roger Döring, and violinist Alex Stolze. I am still not particularly sure how to approach this music as it contains many elements of classical, rock, and electronica. The instrumentation is particularly nostalgic, yet repurposed for contemporary listening. It is very captivating to say the least, and I would not mind exploring more works of these artist musicians.

What first drew me into Weigh of the Earth, on Paper was the driving bassline that peppers the chorus. Full of colour and urgency, everything pays off during the refrain when gang vocals come on and the piano in the background starts losing its shit.

And with shit lost, I stopped including music for the week.