What I Listened To: WILT_2022-47

WILT_2022-47

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 20 Nov 2022 to 26 Nov 2022.

  1. GOOD TIMES (Elephant Talk Remix) – Jungle, Elephant Talk
  2. Slow Burn (Elephant Talk Mix) – Outlaw Boogie, Elephant Talk
  3. Hourglass – Most Akin
  4. Forever the Mirror – Blue Material
  5. Afterthoughts – Most Akin
  6. Blomsterid – HNNY
  7. The Sky Is Empty – Orchid Mantis

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2022-47

Notes

The week started with the Elephant Talk remix of Jungle’s GOOD TIMES. You can listen to the original here.

I loved the electro house vibe so much that I started to look for more material by Elephant Talk, and that’s where Slow Burn (Elephant Talk Mix) by Outlaw Boogie came about, but more surprisingly, that’s also where Hourglass came about as well.

Hourglass by Most Akin has a folksy, dreamy, shoegazey vibe that is all sorts of familiar, yet nostalgically captivating that I was allured enough to seek out more music by the artist. But not before Forever the Mirror by Blue Material came on. The song has been treated with a sort of lo-fi hiss that I’m not sure works, but the groove is strong enough to merit an addition to the list.

Back to the music of Most Akin. What greeted me when was not the similar dreamy folk, but a lot more soundscapes and sonic ideas. I did find Afterthoughts which was similarly haunting, and this time with a brilliant saxophone accompaniment and drum breakdown that sounds like it could belong on DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing.

However, for the rest of playlist, I sought out similar music to Most Akin, and what I found were more sonic ideas that attempted to transcended convention. Some highlights included Blomsterid by HNNY, that featured repeated chord swells and a simple guitar motif that worked to be a worthwhile interlude, or pre-outro to the playlist.

The Sky Is Empty by Orchid Mantis has a strange warbling motif that is both unsettling, yet tearfully endearing. As it sits in between simple piano tinkerings and a swell of delay drenched samples, everything strives to come together but also ultimately falls apart. There is no moment except for the whole moment itself.