WILT_2024-50

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 8 Dec 2024 to 14 Dec 2024.

1. Goodbye Subtlety – Baby Combat
2. Calling Youth – Baby Combat
3. 10K – Sunken
4. Kilroy – Bleem
5. Doctor – Auden
6. Own Best Friend – Love of Everything
7. Deeper We Fall – Baby Combat
8. Ten Times Fold – Baby Combat

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-50

Notes

I saw that my friend, Baby Combat, had released a new single titled Goodbye Subtlety, to which he also stated that the lyrics were referencing from the times before his sobriety where he’d find himself passed out in public spaces as well as the sense of excitement of drinking to excess. As someone who also heard the first-hand account of the motivations and experience of becoming sober, as well as some who navigates his own relationship with alcohol, this one was a bit of a spotlight to hear a friend out who was chronicling their own thoughts on the matter, as well as appreciating the prolificness of a creative individual who is somehow able to put music to words and words to music, multiplying the meaning and joy that comes with living and loving.

There’s a lot more Baby Combat on this playlist because I was just having a ton of fun listening to songs back to back and for some extended periods of time. The songs I’ve chosen to highlight showcase the sense of fun, abandon, and maximum feeling that I remember when I was playing in the same band as him. They also showcase a much deeper introspection and assuredness of vision to convey rather deep emotion, but in a manner that is almost universal. In some sense, anybody’s who felt sad will feel sad, but they might never have felt sad that way, and Baby Combat’s music and songwriting is the sort of emotion you get when someone wipes the dirt off your cheek in the kindest and gentlest way possible, and you didn’t even know the speck was there to begin with. Somehow, you feel seen in the raw emotion of the music.