WILT_2025-03

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 12 Jan 2025 to 18 Jan 2025.

1. -. — … – . .–. — -. .– .. -. –. (NOSTEPONWING) // . .－. .－ … . －.. (ERASED)
2. -.-. — .-.. — ..- .-. ..-. .. . .-.. -.. … (COLOURFIELDS) // . .－. .－ … . －.. (ERASED)
3. — .- – .. -.-. (MATIC) // . .－. .－ … . －.. (ERASED)
4. No Step On Wing – Nils Frahm
5. VII: COLOUR FIELDS – Bell Orchestre
6. Matic – Qasim Naqvi
7. Brutal Moderna – Qasim Naqvi
8. Ritual Song – Rival Consoles
9. Zebra – Kiasmos, Högni
10. Pending – Ben Lukas Boysen
11. Bel Tono – Anne Müller
12. Spaceship Magical – Masayoshi Fujita
13. Melodica – Rival Consoles
14. Black White Felt – Roedelius, Arnold Kasar
15. Opal – Felix Rösch
16. Your Name Is My Infinite – Gigi Masin
17. Aqualung, Motherfucker – A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Adam Wiltzie, Dustin O’Halloran
18. To Speak Of Solitude – Brambles
19. U Should Not Be Doing That – Amyl and The Sniffers
20. Do It Do It – Amyl and The Sniffers
21. Pure At The Heart – Warmduscher, Janet Planet
22. Pull It Off – Hank
23. Walking Wires – High Vis
24. You Can’t Relate – SNOWMEN
25. Ode To Clio – Man/Woman/Chainsaw
26. baethoven – Ekko Astral
27. Pretty Girls – Honeyglaze
28. this is my california – mary in the junkyard

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-03

Notes

The listlessness from the previous week continued and thus I sought the out music of the more ambient variety to envelope the listening mind with tones, rhythms, timbres and sounds that sound like dust particles frozen by light. I sought out the stillness and the movement of air. 

I found it with a revisiting of . .－. .－ … . －.., a project released by the Erased Tapes label during the COVID lockdown in 2021. [ERATP130] I journaled about them in WILT_2021-01 [Link], but this time I used a morse code translator to figure out what the codes meant, and seeing as how everything was a curation of songs and artists from the label, it’s an interesting concept to mask everything behind a code to let the music attain a new sort of meaning that is divorced from what contextualised it in the first place.

This journey then led to an exploration of another compilation by Erased Tapes, 2018’s Erased Tapes 1+1=X [Link to Spotify] [Link to ERATP100] as well as algorithmic recommendations of the ambient and classical kind.

A chance viewing of Amyl and The Sniffers performing U Should Not Be Doing That live on Jools Holland [Link to YouTube] lurched me out of this stupor. Obviously the performance was spellbinding, and if I could summarise it for myself, it would be as if I were watching Iggy Pop and The Stooges but for a more current generation. 

That flung the doors right open for more attitude-filled rock with a certain sensitivity and sensibility that appreciate in my (hopefully) more wisened years. Where the feminine because more masculine, and the masculine becomes more feminine, where the ideals become more blended and the roles not so fixed or constructed. There just seems to be a lot more excitement in the tones between frets when there aren’t any frets. That’s when music becomes exciting. 

Almost every artist in this week’s playlist deserves to be put on some sort of attention-list as this is turned out to be a engaging soiree to the current genres of indie / alt rock and ambient electronica.