05/21 - We're Never Leaving This Place

It only took a slight change in the weather. Now I'm feeling low, lonely, sentimental again. Thusly, here follows five sad songs. Not gonna cottonwrap it.

 

 

Tiger Lou - Sam, As In Samantha

This song used to affect me severely back in my early 20s. Now, almost two decades later, partly thanks to a pandemic setting, it hit a soft spot again...

Sitting around every day
Amounts to nothing and there's no way
I'm doing this for another ten years
That's one of my worst fears

 

Lianne La Havas - Bittersweet

No more hanging around

No more hanging around

No more hanging around

No more hanging around

😔

 

 

Wire - Humming

I can't quite remember
When it went wrong
Someone was humming
A popular song

 

 

Julien Marshal & Ed Tullett - Scalped

I listen to Julien Marshal every second day as my breakfast music. Usually it's a suitably serene and wondrous mood setter. Then I found this particular collaboration, and suddenly I was left to finish my scrambled eggs to the the tune of infinite sadness...

 

Lhasa de Sela - El Desierto

Started with an old favourite; ending with an old favourite. We have arrived at the desert. Which direction to get out of here?

 

 

04/21 - Spin Me Round So I'm Unwinding

Let's have a dance party. It's been too long.

 

 

Karenn - Taste Yourself

First we have to establish a beat. Untz, untz, untz, untz... Yeah, there we go.

 

Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!

Then, space out for a while, as the beat builds and layers of sound fill the room and push aside language and worries.

 

 

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

Now we need a disco diva. Jessie Ware does take on that mantle, with the honour, on her latest record.

 

 

Róisín Murphy - Narcissus

OK, we're getting warmed up. Now is the time for an epic breakdown, buildup and subsequent beat drop. And few people have studied that science more thoroughly than this mad Irish genius. As evidenced by this absolutely fantastic tune from last year's brilliant album.

 

Maxwell Udoh - I Like It (Don't Stop)

And to top it off Alex introduced us to Nigerian Maxwell Udoh, who's adding that little wistful lovey-doveyness every good dancefloor needs.

Let's have some fun
Come on, let us have some loving

Soon we'll meet in a club.