WILT_2024-04

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 21 Jan 2024 to 27 Jan 2024.

1. Blue Tuesday – Francis of Delirium
2. Tits & Attitude – My Life Story
3. Snakes Crawl (East Village Mix) – Phil Kieran, Bush Tetras, East Village
4. Flashing – Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli
5. Squeek and Chatter – Tomaga
6. Sex And Trouble – Deux
7. Gensei – aspidistrafly
8. Sad Song – The Soft Moon
9. Answers – The Soft Moon
10. The Pit – The Soft Moon
11. Stupid Child – The Soft Moon
12. Lock and Key – Cold Showers
13. Slices – Spike Hellis
14. Escape real enemy – Tranceumo
15. Sound Pressure, Pt. 2 – Surgeon, James Ruskin
16. M-87 – Silent Servant
17. New Here Gem – SG Bluie
18. Eden Trio (Barker Remix) – Planetary Assault Systems, Barker

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-04

Notes

The week started with a Spotify recommendation to listen to Blue Tuesday by Francis of Delirium. Driving, melodic, rancorous, the song had all the makings of a great banger by my standards. Tits & Attitude by My Life Story soon followed and I was immediately taken by the attitude behind the song as the delivery was an easy sell for the punk-like instrumentation that sold the promise of diamond studded leather struts. 

But this direction did not last long as early in the week I came across the news of the passing of Luis Vasquez (The Soft Moon) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), both of whom I have come across in my musical discoveries. To remember, I first listened to some albums by The Soft Moon which proceeded to generate a few other recommendations, but the time came to also listen to Vasquez’s most recent album before his death, Exister (2023). What greets is an intensity and anxiety for the hopelessness befalling us. A brilliant piece of art, but perhaps the cost was high.

Other songs followed (and good ones too), and so did another passing through of Mendez’s work as Silent Servant which allowed me to revisit a shade of techno that sees the passing of midnight, the onset of dusk deep before the arrival of dawn. A bit of a lonely place, but also an apathetic unfeeling delusion of catharsis. Does letting go bring peace?