WILT_2023-30

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 23 Jul 2023 to 29 Jul 2023.

1. Birdy Bell (Nick León Remix) – SUCHI, Nick León
2. Running Up That Hill – Placebo
3. Rolling Down The Hills – Glass Candy
4. Without You I’m Nothing – Placebo
5. Sleeping With Ghosts – Placebo
6. The Bitter End – Placebo
7. Kyoto (京都) – Mark Barrot

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2023-30

Notes

I do not have much included in this week’s playlist because I did not get a lot of active listening done. Even so, I am able to place where I stumbled across this week’s entries because I made some notes.

Birdy Bell by SUCHI and Nick León came from a playlist compiled by Ghostly International for the latest releases under their label. After adding this, I thought I would take a more electronic tangent for this playlist, but this is what happened instead:

I came across a joke playlist called Sisyphys Happy and found it very hilarious.

The standouts on that playlist were by Placebo and Glass Candy, and if I’m being curious, I might also check out more of The Rembrandts’s music another time because of how guitar-based it is and there might be interesting songwriting qualities besides the popular understanding of their association with the Friends sitcom.

Well, this then set me down a path to explore more by Placebo because it was always a band I would see being featured in the media of my youth, but I don’t think I was ready to listen to their music then. Ultimately what greeted me was something both dark, sensual, and still with enough frenzy to scratch the lizard part of my brain. Overall, there’s a lot of talent between Placebo and Glass Candy, and I will probably explore more of their discography in the future.

Finally, we come to Kyoto (京都) by Mark Barrot, an ambient piece that I was initially writing off because of the slight cheesiness of arpeggiated bell tone arrangement during the intro, but the underlying pulses of synth and a bright tone that whizzes past every now and then made me recall how amazing the Hyper Light Drifter soundtrack by Disasterpeace so I continued listening to see how the journey would continue and how things would end. In the end, it simply stands on its own with many wonderful ideas, soundscapes and arrangements, and I am glad to have another wonderful electronic producer and artist to listen to and refer to.