WILT_2024-09

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 25 Feb 2024 to 2 Mar 2024.

1. Under The Magnolia Tree – Pale Jay
2. Telephone (What’s Your Name?) – daste.
3. Ruby Smiles – Reuben James, Conor Albert, Soweto Kinch
4. Something I’m Used To – DARGZ
5. My Dirty Desire – Pale Jay
6. Headspace – Ray Lozano
7. If You Don’t Want My Love – Jalen Ngonda
8. Long Beach – B.J. Smith
9. Just Fly, Don’t Worry – Jungle
10. Losing It – Bobby Oroza, El Michels Affair
11. Marieanne – Common Saints
12. Make Believe – Dead Horse Beats
13. Darling – Esbe
14. Typhoon – Ray Lozano, SALOMEA
15. Got Caught In Amsterdam – Arc De Soleil
16. Famagusta Port – BALTHVS
17. Wildfires – SAULT
18. Into Quietus – Nails
19. Slaughter Of The Soul – At The Gates
20. All Hail The Goat – Hellripper
21. The Javelin – Fugitive
22. Slime and Punishment – Municipal Waste
23. Demon – Entombed
24. Questions – Power Trip
25. Unfit for Human Consumption – Carcass
26. Rumors Of War – High On Fire
27. My Time – Exhorder
28. Relic of Damnation – Spiritworld
29. Life Is a Death Sentence – Nails

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-09

Notes

This week’s playlist got out of hand really quickly and that’s simply because there was just so much good music that presented itself to me.

I was revisiting Jungle’s Volcano (2023) and Pale Jay came on as a recommendation after the album finished playing. I proceed to check out Pale Jay’s 2021 album and 2023 album, and that generated a slew of soulful and groovy tunes.

Some standouts include Ray Lozano whose music includes the slightest tinge of melancholy that laces her soulful songs with sharp writing and subject matter that grounds it with an earthiness leaving ready for the next song. 

Arc De Soleil and BALTHVS provide a welcome break with psychedelia-inspired guitar instrumentals, reminiscent of Khruangbin but also their own thing.

Don’t miss Wildfires by SAULT, which has a really spellbinding bassline played in chords that never feels too busy, but somehow roars like glowing embers that is both fierce and gentle at the same time.

After 18 songs, I should have ended the playlist but I had a desire to also listen to Power Trip while I was at work and navigating a particularly complex task. The speed and aggression of thrash metal really helps put me into a state where I can concentrate on my executive functions without being distracted easily. Listening to their 2017 album, Nightmare Logic ended up generating more amazing discoveries in adjacent genres like power violence, hardcore, speed metal and more. If there are bands to check out from this dump, definitely go the way of Nails and Fugitive, both of which write extremely brutal riffs that if you are able to appreciate, are some of the most crushing yet uplifting and energy giving riffs.