Bleurgh. What a dismal season. One has to look for shimmering distractions.
Nina Simone - You've Got To Learn
Continuing last week's resilience theme with one of the best. Can anyone listen to this without clenching something? A fist, a chest, some legs...
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Mr. Brown
The economy of early Wailers tracks is what puts them up and above. You have an absolute killer bit like the "From Mandeville to Sligoville, coffin running around..."-chorus, used once, and then a second time only for the fade out. Because that's all a backbeat ghost story needs to utterly slay.
The Weeknd - The Birds Pt. 1
Uncut Gems prompted me to look into The Weeknd a bit more, and would you know? I found uncut gems. Always a fan of heavy marching drums. And a timely warning:
Don't make me make you fall in love!
Jessica Pratt - Jacquelyn in the Background
Rainy days have always been the ones most urgently calling out for a soundtrack, and now I've found a new rainy day favourite. That disorienting tape warp effect at 2:45 makes it sound just wrong enough to make it absoutely right for a pissy February Thursday.
Bon Iver - 00000 Million
This is for after the rain. Whenever that is.
Where the days have no numbers...
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