10/15 - How Delilah Changed My Locks To A Fade

A second term at Goldsmiths done, and I'm posting a list from Glasgow.



Father John Misty - Holy Shit

Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity
What I fail to see is what that's gotta do with you and me

Fela Kuti - Highlife Time
Spring break. What time is it? If your answer is anything else than "highlife time!", it is wrong.


Amadou & Mariam - Pauvre Type
I love, love, love the brass after 1:50. And West African french is one of the best french accents there is. Il est fatigué!!


Action Bronson ft. Chance the Rapper - Baby Blue
This is currently my favourite song, thanks to its video, and thanks to Chance the Rapper's instant classic line:

I hope you never get off Fridays, 

and that you work at a Friday's, 

that is always busy on Fridays.

Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - After the Dance
Now they're both gone. RIP John.

09/15 - When You Got The Yams

Let's mix up the irresistable with the tasteless


Kanye West - All Day
I almost wish I didn't like this. Not because it's Kanye. No no. For all his antics, I still have a fair amount of respect for him as a producer of music. But Sir Paul... *facepalm*. What are you doing Paul? I mean, I guess I was always in the John camp, but even then, Band On The Run is part of my life, and I just wanted you to not grow this embarrassing. I mean, it's so transparent! You're contributing nothing musically! Strumming a guitar and whistling. Strutting around making 'cool' faces while Rihanna fails at buttoning a simple denim jacket. From Kanye's perspective, you're obviously just there as a cultural marker. From yours... a desperate, desperate attempt at being hip with the kids.
Nevertheless. Since the live performance of this, I can't get it out of my head. And I'm not sure I want to.

Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
New contender for song of the year. It just gives giving and giving. We do want the funk.

Annie are you ok?
Annie are you ok?

Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and Xzibit - What's the Difference
Ok. You need to really, really ignore what they actually say. Then it's really, really enjoyable. Because the production is ace.

Panda Bear - Boys Latin
I was lying on the floor in my studio with the lights off. This elevated me.

Master Musicians of Bukkake - People of the Drifting Houses
A discovery in the wood workshop. Amazing 70s prog vibes from this. But... that is a terrible, terrible band name.

08/15 - Arms and Legs Were In the Trees

To upset and to sooth.


Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free
Continuing last week's Floyd revival. This still gives me a chill. It's really fucking angry.


PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
Considering how well this connects with the previous track one could always conceive of me as planning a themed list. But no, these are just great albums I listened to this week.


Tinariwen - Tenhert
The beauty of language.

Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz & Dan Berglund - Valiant
or Anouar Brahem - Leila Au Pays du Carrousel
Two tracks for to sooth all hangovers. The former was on Spotify but not on Grooveshark. The latter was on Grooveshark but not on Spotify. So they became each others' substitutes.

John Martyn - Small Hours

Keep on loving til your love is gone

07/15 - A Million Bright Ambassadors Of Morning

The first taste of spring this week.


Matthew Herbert - August 2010
It's an album about a pig's life, mostly made of pig's noises (or in this case, noises of people eating pig), and well, it's bloody brilliant. Can't believe I forgot to listen to this til now. Matthew Herbert is a mad genius.


Pink Floyd - Echoes
Finally took up running again, and as I jogged across the top of Hilly Fields park one early Sunday morning, with the rooftops of Lewisham spreading out to the east of me, Roger's voice resurfaced in one of Pink Floyd's very best moments:

Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise

Dusty Springfield - Anyone Who Had a Heart
Excellent use of saxophone, strings and sadness.


Primal Scream - Rebel Dub
When you listened to a song enough times, you don't really need to hear the vocals anymore; the sentiment remains. Sunshine and revolution and a better world for all.

The O'Jays - For the Love of Money
"That's a pretty, pretty good bassriff we've got going here. Should we just keep at it for 7 or so minutes?"
"YAS"

06/15 - Time Is A Jet Plane, It Moves Too Fast

Music what is like made for this sunny/rainy Sunday.

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
Maybe the most ultimate hangover-song ever.


Derrick Harriott - Let Me Down Easy
I've said it before: when it comes to subtle, too rarely celebrated vocal performances, Jamaican music is full of them. The way he sings "Give me tii-iiime"! It's like SATIN. It's so beautiful. And then that wonderful callback:

'Cause the fall
From the top
To the bottom
Is such a sudden drop

Bob Dylan - You're a Big Girl Now
What does it feel like to listen to Blood On The Tracks? Like a corkscrew to my heart. Enough said.


José Gonzalez - Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
Yet another revelation of beauty on this week's list. José's new album is sublime. It sounds exactly like José, yes, but somehow he's managed to perfect his already perfected sound and bring the whole thing up a tiny, tiny notch on the emotional scale.

Viktor Vaughn - Mr. Clean
It's been months since I had Doom on a list! Some say his language is way too outlandish. Well, I don't. I find it just outlandish enough.