WILT_2023-25
A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 18 Jun 2023 to 24 Jun 2023.
- This Isn’t Helping (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) – The National, Phoebe Bridgers
- I Inside the Old I Dying – PJ Harvey
- I.O.T.A. (Instrument Of The Ancestors) – Georgia Anne Muldrow
- Darkeve Duet – Lutalo, Lomelda
- One Love – Cleo Sol
- So Cool – Reuben James
- unhurt – aja monet
- Sole Obsession – Nation of Language
- We’re Dumb – Salami Rose Joe Louis
- Mr. Moon – niquo, Freak Slug
- Disorder – Freak Slug
- Vine – Glasser
- Tomorrow – okaywill
Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2023-25
Notes
It’s been a week since I returned to Singapore but I feel incredibly tired. It’s this report that my colleague and I have been writing and it’s both mentally and physically demanding. In the end, we completed it before the weekend and submitted it to our managers, and I hope that that will be the end of it, and that it was a job well done.
Listening-wise, it still feels like a continuation of the last two weeks, and after this week I think I am ready to move on. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed each of the tracks that I’ve selected this week, but tonally it feels like I’ve stagnated a little, or it feels like I’ve been eating the same thing for the past three weeks. But, I say that now, and maybe next week’s listening will continue down a similar path, and it would have been what the journey looked like, not what I wanted willed it to be.
Back to the task at hand, it’s nice to hear The National again, and I think they excel in this sort of waltz-y melancholia. PJ Harvey excels once again in this era of her career and I am all for it. I.O.T.A. by Georgia Anne Muldrow had a killer beat, and Darkeve Duet by Lutalo and Lomeldo was just the most precious arrangement between the two.
From there, it’s a straight shot of effortless cool by Cleo Sol Reuben James, aja monet and Salami Rose Joe Louis. Sole Obsession by Nation of Language is something uncommon in my playlists, which is a more synth-pop number more reminiscent of the eighties. (Which reminds me, I saw a view about a Grace Jones song this week, so maybe I should explore that next week.)
Freak Slug stood out for me for its very slacker shoegaze, Vine by Glasser also had an incredible beat, and I loved the pop sensibility and baseline of okaywill’s Tomorrow.
That said, I am looking forward to taking some time off work. It has been a particularly challenging three weeks and having some time to myself would be more than ideal.
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