WILT_2026-17

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 19 Apr 2026 to 25 Apr 2026.

1. Driven – Felix Rösch
2. Nicotine & Gravy – Beck
3. Mixed Bizness – Beck
4. Peaches & Cream – Beck
5. Something’s Got To Give – Beastie Boys
6. Buena – Morphine
7. Sugar Free Jazz – Soul Coughing
8. Inside Out – Spoon
9. Lazaretto – Jack White
10. Newt – Karenn

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2026-17

Notes

I missed the entry for the previous week’s playlist because I was just really tired out from the work week. I’m an attached resource to a particular work stream that isn’t the most high-visibility or high-impact, but it’s something the higher-ups want to see more of. I suppose my value-add could be to transform it into higher-impact work, but I’m not sure how much of a hole I would be digging so for the moment I’ll just try to match expectations. 

I think we started with Felix Rösch as a carry over from the previous playlist, but we soon transitioned to Beck because I saw that a new single was released and I also realised that I hadn’t listened to him of late, so I put on the album that I thought was most unique in his discography which was 1999’s funk-country odyssey, Midnight Vultures.

From there, more gems from the nineties turned up like Something’s Got To Giveby the Beastie Boys, Buena by Morphine and Sugar Free Jazz by Soul Coughing. If you ever needed proof that nineties alternative music was a vanguard of innovation alongside hiphop, then you’ve found it. Amidst the rampant commercialisation of the music industry, manufactured idols and pop stars, these are some early blendings of genre that just enjoyed a good groove combined with the slack that you’d probably find quite commonplace in the alternative circles, possibly as a response to the high commercial throughput of hyper-produced music. If there was a band I wish I could add now to this mix, it would be Cake.

We end the playlist with Newt by Karenn, which is something I heard off an Instagram reel, and this bit of techno will follow me around for awhile.