19/20 - I Spread Like Strawberries

Posting a list from a hotel in Luleå, because it's snowing like crazy outside and I'm staying in with familiar tunes, old and new.

 

Norma Tanega - You're Dead

Just watched the final episode of What We Do In The Shadows the other day, and I need more! More Nadja! More Colin Robinson! Until season 3, I can at least have more Norma Tanega.
 

 

Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face

I miss dancing. Dancing by yourself in a hotel room doesn't quite count. I want to be at a massive party with a bouncing dance floor and throw shapes to this stone cold, red hot classic.

 

 

Grizzly Bear - Three Rings

When it comes to unravelling, developing, enveloping song structures, Grizzly Bear are in a class of their own, and Three Rings is a masterclass. The intricate journey towards that insisting, hopeful finale:

Don't you be so easy

Don't you know that I can make it better

Don't you ever leave me

Don't you feel it all come together

 

 

Fiona Apple - Heavy Balloon

I know I'm late to this – deliberately so, because I hate being swept up in hype – but if this isn't one of the smartest songwriters of our time riding the pinnacle of her craft I don't know what it is. And her voice! So good.

 

 

 

dEUS - The Real Sugar

Starting to feel a bit isolated now. Gonna head out to look at a UNESCO World Heritage...

Everybody's ever felt lonely...

18/20 - The Ship Is Sinking

Wordsmiths and moodswings in an autumn potpourri. 

 

Tom Waits - God's Away On Business

Some days you're ready to give in to the pessimistic view that this is what societal collapse looks like. A gradual disintegration, a layering of calamities, antagonism on every front. And who's left in charge?

Killers, thieves and lawyers

 

 

Nicki Minaj - Want Some More

At least someone is counterbalancing the proliferation of awful people. Congratulations to Nicki on her first child! Want some more! 

 

 

Pusha T - Come Back Baby

Now, I don't have much to do with drugdealing. Not my game really. Nevertheless I find almost everything Pusha T does musically impossibly appealing. A meeting of worlds that is. A sign of hope.

 

 

Marwan Pablo - Abu Mecca

They were playing this in a food truck where I bought a falafel a few weeks ago. I did a quick google for the lyric "I feel like Tupac, all eyes on me", found the song and left the tab open on my phone. Much later I found the tab again and remembered to listen to it, and was a bit surprised by how much I still liked it.

 

 

Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get Easier

The world is going to shit right now, but soon the worst must be over, right? Soon things are gonna get easier, and then we'll finally be on our way to socialism! Yay!