10/04/2018

10/18 - I Dreamed A Dream And I Thought It True

As rain. Streams down. My playlist. It smudges. The outline. Of genres. And sentences.


Gregorio Allegri - Miserere Mei Deus

Soggy trousers. Soggy gloves. Soggy eyes. Soggy brains. Soggy world politics. Place them in front of the radiator. Dry them off. At a particular temperature they will all start to sing in unison. And at 8:07 exactly, all the soggy stuff will start vibrating and burn bright as phosphor and by then it will be too late. In a good way.


Man Forever ft. Laurie Anderson - Twin Torches

We are now in the studio. The pens are over there. The little bits found outside are on the window sill. On the second desk is dust. The live stuff is on a shelf. Green components in the drawer. At 5:16 the drawing paper jumps up and slaps me in the face for being too slow. It's good to be confused.


Justin Walter - It's Not What You Think

A house I saw this week looked like this sounds. Or sounded like this looks. I forget which. At 1:15 is the weeds growing out of its cornices. 2:17 the cracked panes on the first floor. At 4:15 its cemented up ground floor windows. At 5:32 is what the large silver graffiti said. It was beautiful.


Pentangle - Lord Franklin

For some reason I started thinking about John Steinbeck as I listened to this on the bus. How he is dead now, and how, perhaps, before he died he looked back on his life, like one of his characters would, and realised how much he would miss it and all the people within it. Life's like that.
After that I thought of how clear the traces of this song are in Bob Dylan's Dream. Turns out Bob heard it when he was in London 56 years ago. Life's like that too.


Fred Åkerström - Jag ger dig min morgon

A song I've heard my entire life, that still rubs some warmth into my soggy heart as I sit in my bed, looking out the soggy soggy window, and its strings lift towards the sun at 3:10.




01/04/2018

09/18 - Help Us Lose Our Minds

Happy Easter. Here are the tunes Jesus would have wanted you to boogie to:




The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow

In the midst of March's monotony I glance ahead and remember that I've got no idea where I'm going or what I'll be doing in even a year's time. Unpredictable is the course I set myself. Sometimes, with the right music at the right volume, it is exhilarating.


Oktoberklubben - Varekil

Thursday nights during my late teens / early twenties I used to hang out at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg. Often Fransisco would be there, and in a corner of the bar we would geek out about the latest albums we'd been listening to. Now I'm geeking out about his latest album with whoever might read this blog. It is bouncing.


Talking Heads - Slippery People (live)

Turn like a wheel inside a wheel!


Fever Ray - To The Moon And Back

It's already a week and a bit since I saw Fever Ray at the Troxy, but the intersectional party vibes still simmer in me, and bubble up every time I hear this tune of tunes. I try to restrain myself from singing along to the best bit, because it sounds creepy in a male voice...


Visible Cloaks - Wheel

Easter Sunday comedown, lifted from the very end of Four Tet's recent fantastic Essential Mix: