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A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 13 Oct 2024 to 19 Oct 2024.

1. Falling, the Light – Tindersticks
2. Mutations – Nilüfer Yanya
3. Please, Come In – Loma
4. Arrhythmia – Loma
5. Conversion – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6. Sociometer Blues – Arab Strap
7. Glimpse – Future Islands
8. BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
9. BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
10. PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
11. Veteran – Christtt
12. Shame – Chat Pile
13. Frownland – Chat Pile
14. Livonia (Ryko Version) – His Name Is Alive

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-42

Notes

I listened to two albums this week which each spun out their own musical travels. Wild God (Aug 2024), by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (Oct 2024) by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

This week I was reminded as to what a master songwriter and performer Cave is, and what a masterful band he is being backed by. Conversion starts off in that classic Cave buildup, smatterings of Warren Ellis permeate the atmospheric preamble before launching into a gospel-style refrain that takes us to the song’s end. It’s not the most representative song on the album in that it has the most classic arrangement, but it’s as a good an introduction to Cave’s and the Bad Seeds’s music if you’re new. 

Falling, the Light by Tindersticks is a gorgeous lullaby of delicate trepidation, while Arryhthmia suggests electronic-folk arrangement with classical piano with an addictive shuffle beat that envelopes the listener with a cold breeze that leaks through a door ajar. 

I also felt rather unsettled this week, quite possibly from the mounting stress for an upcoming event that the team is busy putting the final touches on, as well as tying up on loose ends. Somehow that unsettledness was placated with even more unsettling sounds from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s latest album. The earlier songs in the album felt more contemporary post-rock, but by the time we arrive at BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD, I could tell that something was looming, and then we are met with the classic chamber orchestral stylings that make GY!BE one of the very best in their own genre of music. Stirring, evocative, and with emotions crying out like a wave of unbridled humanity To accept their music into your life is to accept that we are all flawed perfections.