WILT_2025-12

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 16 Mar 2025 to 22 Mar 2025.

1. Eternal – TOKiMONSTA
2. Flash – WheelUP, Abacus
3. LIFE ON THE BLUE LINE – MoMa Ready
4. Tao – Demuja
5. Knows – Mietze Conte
6. Can You – 박혜진 Park Hye Jin
7. i i i i am am am am – FREE JIMI
8. That Time Has Passed – Harpsichord Canvas, Orchid Mantis
9. In The After Hours – No_4mat
10. I can relate – Resonara
11. luvdub – NEW YORK, Lulu
12. Break Free – ESP
13. Aurora – Quiet Light
14. AMNESIA – goneMUNE
15. pretty in the dark – goneMUNE
16. Busy – Whirr
17. Sonic Angel – Sunken
18. Theremini – Throwing Muses
19. underneath it all – insomniac, Sipper
20. Slip – Womb
21. no one could see me – flexinvent, khxznq, yourshxbx
22. Chance – Roomer
23. if i smile i’ll be okay – subtle life enthusiast
24. don’t you let the wheels scream! – Swirl Circuit, Cross Kristoff
25. CHEW – cleopatrick
26. An Embroidery – Clarissa Connelly
27. 5 – Dean Blunt, Elias Rønnenfelt
28. Flames shard goo – ML Buch
29. 11 – Horse Vision
30. Clayboy – RIP Swirl, Ydegirl

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-12

Notes

I didn’t really know how this week’s playlist was going to turn out, but then a new track by TOKiMONSTA, Eternal, showed up on Spotify’s home page and I decided to check that out. This then led down several rabbit holes to which I will attempt to retrace the steps as to how I got there. Eternal brought me down a pathway of soulful electronic beats, something that has been missing in my listening orbits of late, as well as what I knew of TOKiMONSTA’s released work of late. I gravitated to this quite naturally.

I think the first deviation was when I came across knows by Mietze Conte, and I was just really taken by the very simple guitar riffs with the treble rolled off. It definitely felt refreshing as I had avoided this type of music, whether consciously or unconsciously.

This pathway then led me down many independent producers with standout sounds and sonic boards that travelled across a wide spectrum of genres. For example, there are the synth wails of I can relate by Resonara, or the pounding progressive tech house of In The After Hours by no_4mat. However, it was probably the avant beats of NEW YORK and Lulu in luvdub, or the dreamy soundscapes of Quiet Light’s Aurora that reminded me to check out some new material by Singapore’s goneMUNE, who released Amnesia in the last two weeks, to which it is a welcomed foray into the dark parts of synth wave that easily draws those kindred together. 

That path then led to more indie-adjacent music, of which standouts include Chance by Roomer, a wonderfully delicate and slow guitar-based number reminiscent of Low, and with a particularly daring bass line that is evoked more by tone just because of how drone-y they made it. 

I was also quite taken by Womb’s Slip, with a guitar riff that’s reminiscent of The Cure’s Lullaby, but with a vocal melody that’s both aching and angelic, and with an entire arrangement that both salves and rips apart the stitches on your heart.

Well, that journey goes on till we get to Clarissa Connelly’s An Embrodiery, but somewhere near the end of the week, Spotify surfaces a playlist called called Cph+, which allows one to experience the alternative sounds coming out of Copenhagen and perhaps some other parts of the nordics. 

This playlist made me both happy and sad, in that it’s great that there is so many other forms of expression around the world, but but melancholic because the country that I call home has not invested in nurturing our artists or our desire for expression.