WILT_2024-27

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 30 Jun 2024 to 6 Jul 2024.

1. Cherry Blossom – Empire Of The Sun
2. Come To This – Sleepy Jackson
3. Common Man – Luke Steele
4. santa calamifuck (Eva, Chucho, Yulian & Nick Hook’s versión) – Run The Jewels, Nick Hook, Eva Peroni, Chucho Llana, Yulian Percs
5. Seasons (Waiting On You) – Future Islands
6. Our Pathetic Age – DJ Shadow, Samuel T. Herring
7. Time Moves Slow – BADBADNOTGOOD, Samuel T. Herring
8. Seasons (Waiting On You) – BADBADNOTGOOD, Samuel T. Herring
9. WEIGHT OFF- KAYTRANADA, BADBADNOTGOOD
10. Play It Cool – Gangrene, Samuel T. Herring, Earl Sweatshirt
11. Ghost In A Kiss – Clams Casino, Samuel T. Herring
12. Decades – Wilma Archer, Samuel T. Herring, Laura Groves
13. Pelican Canyon – Du Blonde, Samuel T. Herring
14. No Curse Lifted (rivers of love) – MIKE
15. routine – Medhane
16. DON’T LET THE DEVIL – Killer Mike, El-P, thankugoodsir
17. Hunger – MIKE
18. Gold Man – Maxo
19. Cloaked Eating – Weird Endgame

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-27

Notes

Empire Of The Sun’s Cherry Blossom music video got recommended to me by YouTube and it had been awhile since I’d heard anything by them. Checking it out did not disappoint, and I felt a sense of nostalgia to listen to The Sleepy Jackson, Luke Steele’s other band, and that’s when I also learned he had released music as a solo artist thanks to the music video for Common Man.Through these music videos one can see and appreciate Steele’s creative vision, as well as their own sonic vision of pleasing and swelling melodic ideas sitting against contrasts of intimacy and melancholic inspiration.

I remember searching for Run The Jewels because I needed music to lift me from some lulls at work. santa calamifuck did not disappoint at all thanks to the beat change in the middle of the song.

Listening to Run The Jewels reminded me of DJ Shadow because of their collaboration on Nobody Speak, which in term made me think of Samuel T. Herring because of his his amazing collaboration with DJ Shadow on Our Pathetic Age. I’d also always been a fan of Herring’s performances because he was truly unique and individual, particularly when I first watched him perform Seasons on their Letterman debut in 2014.. Which is also why this montage of Herring’s iconic dance moves made my week.

I included some of my favourite collaborations that Herring did with BADBADNOTGOOD, and went to explore other collaborations that he did. In particular I love Decades with Wilma Archer and Laura Groves that really contrasts Herring’s unique voice with an arrangement that is laid back and a duet by Groves that sits in a range outside of Herring’s creating an enchanting wind that rustles gently through a forest of thoughts.

Pelican Canyon is a duet between Du Blonde and Herring that takes me back to duos like The Fairport Convention, of which Herring also does a great impersonation of Johnny Cash and Du Blonde channels both June Carter Cash and Joni Mitchell into her own performance. This collaboration also deserves more output and exploration.

From here the playlist switches gears to some indie and lo-fi hip hop because of an algorithm shift. Nonetheless, the energy matches in that there is a high degree of creative energy and direction that create sharp poignant music and lyrical matter.

Finally, I came across Cloaked Eating by Weird Endgame through the 110100100.global label. There are some sonic references to Radiohead and Them Yorke, but also a melancholia that is unique to the artist themselves.