WILT_2023-27

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 2 Jul 2023 to 8 Jul 2023.

1. The Pot – TOOL
2. Lipan Conjuring – TOOL
3. Lost Keys (Blame Hofman) – TOOL
4. Rosetta Stoned – TOOL
5. Right In Two – TOOL
6. Hole in the Earth – Deftones
7. Your Skull Is Red – Team Sleep
8. Youngest Daughter – Superheaven
9. Downswing – Superheaven
10. Sponge – Superheaven
11. Damp – Daylight
12. Selfish – Daylight
13. Youth No More – Daylight
14. The Race – Glitterer
15. NBTSA – Joyce Manor
16. Wanter – Glitterer
17. Ándale – Free The Birds
18. Duckling Fantasy – Stove

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2023-27

Notes

For no reason that I can conjure I had a desire to listen to the Tool album that I was most unfamiliar with. 10,000 Days released in 2006 and I was in the final year of university and maybe I was still being blown away by 2001’s Lateralus. I suspect that it’s because the riffs on 10,000 Days were not as bombastic, but with the benefit of maturity, listening to the drone and hypnotism of guitar and bass riffs today reveal that they are equally brutal in their own right, and ultimately serve the song by making it extremely engaging to listen to, particularly when you can feel the nuance of the very instrument, arrangement and flourish. It’s Tool at their best, and it’s consistent on every album that they have released.

As the album ended and the algorithm took over, more sounds from a bygone era filled the air again. Everything sounded similar yet so long ago. This wasn’t who I am anymore, but shades of a painting still in progress. 

I decided to add Hole in the Earth by Deftones because it so rightly captured a tension that you do not find very often. That tension of melody being pulled apart by fuzzy distortion that somehow results in a sound almost being split in two. This tension can also be found in some of songs by Superheaven that I highlight later.

Daylight was also another great discovery that takes me back to my higher energy days as they combined hardcore, emo, and grunge in their delivery.

When The Race by Glitterer rolls around, the playlist lightens up a smidgen. The music is still intense but it isn’t as crushing. Still, the alternative melody is king and songs like The Race just deliver this concept to great effect. NBTSA by Joyce Manor is also another victory in this regards. God damn, that song is just pure intensity and easily one of my favourite lightning in a bottle moments.

We end off the playlist with Ándale by Free The Birds and Duckling Fantasy by Stove, two distinctively different songs yet capture the dissonant and un-normal flavour that I love about alternative music. 

Finally, by the time you read this, I will be in Cebu for a week with Rudi and John. I’m really looking forward to just chilling out with good friends, good music, good food, good experiences, and good conversation. Somehow, I think I won’t be disappointed.