21/15 - When There's A Burning In Your Heart

Hot days in the garden. Lyrically rich listening:

Death Cab For Cutie - You Are a Tourist

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born
Then it's time to go
And define your destination
There's so many different places to call home

Electric Light Orchestra - Do Ya
ELO at their cheesiest. Which is exactly what you want on some sunny days.

Spoon - Do You
See what I did there?
This video is awesome.




Andrew Bird - Imitosis

We were all basically alone
And despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness
Is just a case for mitosis

Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat (Long Walk Off A Short Dock)

It takes a long time, but God dies too 

But not before he'll stick it to you

20/15 - Rolling Maverick Across An Obsidian Sky

I've fractured my elbow. I've got hayfever. I'm listening to this:

Yusef Lateef - Delilah
Love the contrast between the heavy, stumbling bass solo and the elegant, swirling flute melody.


John Coltrane - Alabama
This album, and the way it uses empty space. Just listen to that void at 1:22...

Charles Mingus - Duet Solo Dancers (Hearts' Beat and Shades In Physical Embraces)
The tempo changes!


Alice Coltrane - My Favourite Things
One of the craziest jazz tracks and album openers ever? A standard gone cosmic. Psychedelic organs, freejazz bass solos, oriental strings, heaving dissonances, and of course, swathes of heavenly harp. These are a few of my favourite things.

Tom Waits - Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

I've been looking for some kind of an emotional investment with romantic dividends

19/15 - Dig This Dirt and Sift Out the Bones

Alright, so I have missed a week. Sue me (no don't). This is really last week's list, built on essay hand-in and barbecues. This week I've been mostly listening to jazz, which I'm sure will colour next week's list.

Kendrick Lamar ft. MC Eiht - m.A.A.d city
My essay was called The City Was A Forest...


Matthew Herbert ft. Mara Carlyle - Nice Dream
Not many radiohead-covers around that make a lot of sense, but Matthew Herbert can make anything his own.

tUnE-yArDs - Real Thing



Holly Herndon - An Exit
It's less than a year since I saw her, without knowing who she was, in a small room at the opera as the very last act of the Way Out West-festival in Gothenburg. Suddenly there's an album, and what an album it is!


Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia
I need you all to sit through this. And then be redeemed by the mighty final chord.