21/20 - You Fight The Stillness, The Quiet

I'm not saying I'm lonely, but this is what I listen to.

 

Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ft. Matt Sweeney - OD'd in Denver

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy has been releasing singles with Bill Callahan and with Matt Sweeney. And this one with both of them, is probably my favourite of them all. Such a great combination of voices.
 

 

Bon Iver - Naeem

This sounds like an isolation crescendo.

What's there to pontificate on now?

 

King Midas Sound - The Lonely

Ok, I am saying I feel lonely. It has been an unusually lonely year, what with social distancing, having left my UK art community, moving to an island, et al. I've been pretty lucky as regards the pandemic over all, but this dark season I allow myself to wallow in a tiny tiny pool of self pity anyway. 

 

 

Purple Mountains - Maybe I'm The Only One For Me

Best way to deal with pathetic feelings is to take the piss out of oneself.

 

 

Belle & Sebastian - We Rule The School

To the untrained ear, this might appear as B&S at their most twee, but to the trained ear – which I have, as I have this track on my morning playlist and get to hear it a few times a week – it is a masterpiece. It is the mundanity combined with elevating small, creative gestures to heroic acts of resistance that does it. I crave that sentiment.