17/20 - The Truth Is Sold, The Deal Is Done

Personally I shouldn't have much to complain about. Things are chugging along as well as they could this cursed year. But still there's that constant undercurrent of frustration and anger, that comes from following politics and the ways of the world. So, songs to exorcise some tension and outrage to at the end of the day:

 

Sleigh Bells - Crown On The Ground

Confrontation distilled.

PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan

Surely one of the finest albums ever. It's just pure power.

Mm-hmm...

Angel Olsen - New Love Cassette

Blows of strings like chest compressions making your eyes tear up.

Portishead - Cowboys

The mighty mighty voice of Beth Gibbons, here at its most venomous and vulnerable almost simultaneously. And an beat kick in that will never ever grow old. 

FKA twigs - Fallen Alien

In this age of Satan

I am searching for a light to take me home and guide me out

16/20 - The Wind Will Change Direction

A list for when you're overwhelmed with the shittiness churning on and on in the world.

 

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name

Fuck the Kenosha Police Department. Defund, disarm, disband. 

Some of those that work forces

are the same that burn crosses

Run The Jewels ft. Mavis Staples & Josh Homme - pulling the pin

Fuck the Trump family and the Republican party. Fuck MBS and MBZ. Fuck Netanyahu and Lukashenko. I don't believe in evil as an absolute force, but when you close your ears to suffering and turn off your empathy for the sake of power and money, you have made an evil choice.

These filthy criminals sit at the pinnacle

Doing the typical, keeping us miserable

Taking the most and providing the minimal

Jamila Woods ft. Saba - BASQUIAT

Fuck the both-sidesing. Fuck the conspiracy theories. Fuck the systems of denial. Look this shit into its eyes, call it out, deal with it.

These teeth are not employed

You can't police my joy

CHAI - GREAT JOB

Fuck neoliberalism and its fucked up priorities. The economy should work for us, not the other way around.

Olle Nyman - Don't Let Those Bastards Reel You In

Sorry. Just needed to get that out of my system to make room for to mix the rage with joy, so that I can go out into the world and hopefully do more good than harm. Solidarity with the people of Lebanon, Belarus, Hong Kong and Palestine. RIP David Graeber.

Don't let them fill your heart with sin

Cause they would only win