WILT_2025-05

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 26 Jan 2025 to 1 Feb 2025.

1. Good-Bye – 板橋文夫 (Fumio Itabashi)
2. Aprieta – Vincen Garcia
3. Bird – LEENALCHI
4. Tiger is Coming – LEENALCHI
5. Hihi Haha – LEENALCHI
6. Crying Softshell Turtle – LEENALCHI
7. Oppressed – yuragi
8. To Know You As You Are With No Ends – yuragi
9. soon – yuragi
10. Waters of March – John Roseboro, Mei Semones
11. Tegami – Mei Semones
12. Inaka – Mei Semones

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-05

Notes

I spent the first of of the week in Penang to visit my Father-in-law’s family for the Lunar New Year reunion dinner, and spent the next half of the week back in Singapore being with my side of the family as well as having a short rest by being away from the office.

Musically, I stumbled upon previous albums that I had saved on my Spotify account’s offline mode and landed on listening to 板橋文夫 (Fumio Itabashi) on the plane. The relentless piano playing definitely imprinted something on me.

I came across Vincen Garcia’s Aprieta through a YouTube video recommendation, and I also checked out the music of LEENALCHI after coming across an ad promoting their upcoming performance at the Esplanade on 22 February 2025. I’m definitely intrigued by the sounds that they are presenting, fusing an updated version of Parklife-esque brit/indie-pop with pansori-style singing.

yuragi I was curious about after listening to To Know You As You Are With No Ends, particularly because of the quiet that instil in their sonicscapes, and lastly Mei Semones, whom I had come across recommended on Instagram reels, and I was very curious about her jazz-inspired indie folk. 

All in all, music remains exciting with a new guard pushing forward earnestly with new forms of expression.