WILT_2024-20

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 12 May 2024 to 18 May 2024.

1. Come On, Be a No-One – The Cribs
2. A Chore – Tom Vek
3. Snakes In My Path – Dikembe
4. Slugs (yeule & Kin Leonn Remix) – Slow Pulp, yeule, Kin Leonn
5. Infinity – Morgan Guerin, Georgia Anne Muldrow
6. Kamakura – Mark Guiliana
7. Images Suite – Red Hot Org, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Sex Mob, Steven Bernstein, Marshall Allen
8. Velasquez and Van Wezel – Coffee Shop Jungle, Makoto
9. FUKU WA UCHI ONI WA SOTO – John Carroll Kirby, Haroumi Hasono, The Mizuhara Sisters
10. Scrambled Eggs – Moonchild Sanelly
11. Look Alive – Hana Vu
12. REEKYOD – Madlib, Black Thought, Your Old Droog

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-20

Notes

Somehow revisited The Cribs and Come on, Be a No-One stood out for its brazenness and nonchalance when it came to creating great guitar rock paired with the looseness and abandon of punk. 

A Chore and Snakes In My Path followed soon after and I was in this mood of guitar rock for awhile but also not for long. Listening-wise, I was feeling slightly uninspired because I’ve been quite engrossed in The Dark Forest by Li Cixin and have been listening to the audiobook instead of exploring music during my active listening periods. 

But I did take an easy way out by exploring what Spotify’s Release Radar brought to my attention.

Slugs (Yule & Kin Leonn Remix) was intriguing to me. It gets better on repeated listens, particularly the chaotic bits.

I find it difficult to say no to the jazz explorations of Georgia Anne Muldrow and Infinity with Morgan Guerin is an expression of that. 

I particularly enjoyed Mark Guiliana’s Kamakura and its nostalgic synth warbles as well as FUKU WA UCHI ONI WA SOTO by John Carroll Kirby, Haroumi Hasono and the Mizuhara Sisters for its fun electric piano arrangement.

There’s a bit more jazz with Images Suite and some drum and bass courtesy of Velasquez and Van Wezel by Coffee Shop Jungle and Makoto.

Scrambled Eggs by Moonchild Sanely is a new one and it is a great reminder of the attitude that she and her production sensibilities encapsulate. 

Perhaps the biggest surprise of this week’s playlist is Look Alive by Hana Vu whom I generally associate bedroom guitar pop with, but this swelling synth arrangement demonstrates a new confidence in both songwriting and melody. It’s a tremendous shift and makes me curious for her other musical developments.

We end with REEKYOD by Madlib, Black Thought and Your Old Droog, an old school sample-laced hip hop piece with every rapper putting their best foot forward.