14/19 - Funky Flow For The Perpetrators

City summer days slip away to the sound of rap music and flamenco.

 

Anna Meredith - Paramour

Here we gooooooooooo! This is so ridiculously enjoyable!

Stormzy - Return Of The Rucksack

I know I'm late on this ball, but Stormzy at Glastonbury – quite the gig eh? Quite the gig. If you haven't seen it yet you can still be awed here.

Miss Red - Shut In Your Head

Speaking of awesome gigs. I heard this new single from Miss Red on the radio the other day and remembered hers and The Bug's jawdropping performance at Le Guess Who? last year. Missing that festival this year is the only regret I have about going to Taiwan for three months.

Rosalía - Dio$ No$ Libre Del Dinero

My infatuation is growing. Rosalías new double single pairs an ironic ode to wealth with this sorrowful plea to free us from money. Welcome to capitalist schizophrenia.

Nostrum Grocers - medium

Another BBC6 discovery. I still can't believe that's not Earl Sweatshirt on the second verse.

13/19 - We Burn Our Boats Each New Year

Since last list, decisions have been made, preparations begun. Upheaval is on the agenda.

Belle & Sebastian - Expectations

I often miss being an art student in Glasgow. Rarely more so than when I listen to Belle & Sebastian's perfect debut.

Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay

bob hund - Nu Är Det Väl Revolution På Gång?

Sometimes I miss being a teenager at a rock festival in Sweden. Often that feeling is induced by listening to a live recording of one of the best live bands in the world.

Beth Orton - Daybreaker (Four Tet Remix)

All this looking back just serves as a reminder that there are alternative lives out there, and changing it up is worthwile.

We're burning a new sunrise into yesterday's skies

Janelle Monáe - Django Jane

The future could be gorgeous. Post-capitalist, post-patriarchal, post-anthropocentric. I'm up for it.

Vampire Weekend - This Life

One of 2019's catchiest songs, with one of 2019's most poignant lines

Our disease is the same one as the trees
Unaware that they've been living in a forest