WILT_2025-36

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 31 Aug 2025 to 6 Sep 2025.

1. Blue Hour – Nosaj Thing, Julianna Barwick
2. milk of the madonna – Deftones
3. Violently Blue – Dead Air
4. Thirst – Slow Crush
5. Leap – Slow Crush
6. The Ghost of You Lingers – Spoon
7. Egypt – Kate Bush
8. The Wedding List – Kate Bush
9. Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth – Parquet Courts
10. db – CONDOR44
11. Shed – Shye

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-36

Notes

I’ve got a headspace that is currently scattered and all over the place. 

I should talk a little bit about this week’s playlist, but I’m not exactly in a frame of mind where I was emotionally attached to anything that I listened to this week. 

But if I were to journal, Blue Hour, milk of the madonna and Violently Blue all came from Jenna’s algorithm which I loved for the mood setting. Slow Crush released a new album, Thirst (2025), and I can also see that they’re becoming very popular and that shoegaze is really entering the mainstream. Listening to all this shoegaze also reminded me of a solo instrumental music project that I embarked on during university called “The Ghost of Anna Karina” which involved rather immature obsessions. Still, that explains why I re-listened to Spoon’s The Ghost of You Lingers, and why there is also a great playlist called The Ghost of You Lingers that features more than eleven hours of mood-filled music and also opened the door to more of Kate Bush’s discography with Egypt and The Wedding List as well as Parquet Court’s Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth. From there, the shoegaze continues with YouTube recommendations of db as well as Shye’s new single, Shed, to which I was alerted to through TikTok.

Edit: In a rather quick retrospective, I think one reason I’m feeling this way is because the afternoon I’ve just experienced has been emotionally draining and it is absolutely logical that my emotional disposition is also feeling rather blank, neutral, and / or unattached to anything at the moment. This is a reminder to myself that there will always be activities or responsibilities that despite our best efforts, or no matter how much of it is attributed to filial piety or even as positive actions, can still drain you emotionally just by the nature of the activity. Being emotionally drained is not a reflection of your character but perhaps more about how your body regulates its own emotions so that it can either continue to function, or when it needs to rally to give more when needed, or when it needs to recuperate to give of itself once again when called upon.

“Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.” – Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing