WILT_2025-22

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 25 May 2025 to 31 May 2025.

1. Manuva(s) – Goya Gumbani, Joe Armon-Jones,
2. 2024 (feat. Fla$hBackS) – JJJ, Fla$hBackS
3. Démounaj – Celia Wa
4. Empire (feat. John Carroll Kirby) – Eddie Chacon, John Carroll Kirby
5. Deep Breath – Soshi Takeda
6. Are You Tired (Keep on Singing) – DARKSIDE
7. We Don’t Need The Weather – Eli Keszler
8. Yamayama – Mamazu
9. Losing You – Everything Is Recorded, Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed
10. It Will Get Worse – Lifeguard
11. SLAU – DARKSIDE
12. S.N.C – DARKSIDE
13. Websites – Surprise Chef
14. This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice – Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke
15. Lay – Leifur James
16. under the sun, beneath the rainfall – Logic1000
17. Bologna – Destroyer, Fiver
18. A Tune for Us – DjRUM
19. Feisty – Smerz
20. Kelly Watch the Stars (Vegyn Version) – Vegyn, Air
21. DIPAD33 / W.I.D.F.U – Saya Gray
22. Talisman (Vegyn Version) – Vegyn, Air
23. Cold Heart – Nilüfer Yanya
24. Oganesson – Tortoise
25. Invincibility – Alabaster DePlume
26. Reframing – Barker
27. II Remember – Maribou State
28. Firebird – Common Saints
29. Dreams – Common Saints
30. Rebel Paradise – Common Saints

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-22

Notes

I broke out of the previous week’s rut by hopping onto a playlist curated by BEAMS Japan. That also paved the way toward learning that DARKSIDE had released a new album, Nothing, which in turn tuned me onto the new album by Maribou State, Hallucinating Love, as well as the interpretation of psychedelic rock by Common Saints that evokes the same warmth of the music from the late seventies. 

Other highlights from this week of listening include tracks by Barker, Lifeguard, Sushi Takeda, and more.

Outside of the music on Spotify, there were also explorations towards tastemakers on YouTube like revisiting John Digweed’s Transitions series, to which I’d point out a brilliant setlist in Transitions #1081 as well as a set by one of Singapore’s foremost progressive house DJs, Aldrin, at Therapy Room.

After not listening for a week, I do wonder, Why do I still listen? Why do I still write? Do I find that I need a place to collect these cultural anecdotes, or curate a version of Singapore that I want to know or to introduce to non-Singaporeans with similar tastes to myself? Is this exercise simply an exercise to connect through music, even though I’d also like to just vibe out and not get into anything too overcommitted.