WILT_2024-28

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 7 Jul 2024 to 13 Jul 2024.

1. The Council of Nightowls – Kitsune Kawai, Sara Kawai, Solomon Fox
2. Give Me The Painkiller – Nails
3. Crawling Back to God – Full Of Hell
4. He Is Never Coming Back – Gaza
5. I’ll All Work Out – Pedro The Lion
6. words fell out – Goat Girl
7. Affinity – Loma
8. Delphinium Blue – Cassandra Jenkins
9. motorway – Goat Girl
10. The only conscious being in the universe – bar italia
11. Animated Heart – Efterklang, Sønderjysk Pigekor (South Denmark Girls Choir)
12. Raining On Your Pillow – DIIV
13. Davey Says – King Hannah
14. Yer Brothers – Pedro The Lion, American Football, Nick Wilkerson, Dragon Inn 3
15. Across The Sky – Idaho
16. Alien – Dehd
17. My Best Friend Needs – Babehoven
18. As Your Sleep By My Feet – Jonnine
19. I’ll Call You Back – Erykah Badu
20. New York, Let’s Do Nothing – King Hannah
21. Lioness – Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-28

Notes

Let’s get started.

I was in an ambient, electronica mood at the start of the week listening to a new record by Kisamos, Olafur Arnalds and Janus Ramussen, but that didn’t last long but I was derailed by the new single released by Nails and stumbled onto a hardcore bender. I ultimately stumbled out of it because while I was enjoying the riff to Gaza’s He Is Never Coming Back, I started becoming uncomfortable by my ignorance of the band’s subject matter and political views. Not that it would have mattered from a standpoint of musical appreciation, but I suppose I was confronted with something I had been putting off for a very long time. In my bouts of listening, I don’t really listen to the lyrics. 

So that made me search for Pedro The Lion, because he was someone I used to listen to a lot in university, and I liked his songs for the song itself, not just the music. That opened up a door into a room of indie music and while I didn’t end up paying attention to the lyrics ultimately, I did innately trust that the lyrical matter would be in the realm of introspective expression, cryptic meanings and what not, since the music’s just… pleasant and cordial. 

By the end of the week, I was exploring another playlist that had a new song by HTRK’s Jonnine, which segued nicely into Erykah Badu’s I’ll Call U Back. However, I decided to end the playlist with a song for the lyrics that I really do enjoy. As I listen to it, I wonder if this could be one of my favourite written songs.

It’s Lioness by Jason Molina or Songs: Ohia and it’s fairly simply written and arranged, but there’s something about the violence of the language that when applied to love, passion, longing or desire that makes it such a power and moving image. It definitely captures the desire I feel toward my significant other, and if its a bit awkward or intense, then that does portray the grimey, imperfect and animalistic brutality that comes with being vulnerable with someone else. If we could all be so lucky.