01/23 - Years Spin Round On The Foyer

New year, new colours, just shy of a month late! Let's get some oomph! into this grey and depressing January:

 

 

PJ Harvey - Hook

One to wrestle the winter blues, pin it to the ground and punch it out. Really I wanted the unequalled raw power of the 'Live at Glastonbury' version released as a B-side to Send His Love To Me, but it wasn't on Spotify. Still, in any guise this is one of the most deliciously violently venomous songs I know.

 

 

HAIM - The Wire

I didn't see many new movies in 2022, but even if I had, I think Licorice Pizza would have ended up on top. A clammy hot afternoon in Glasgow; a cool refuge at my favourite cinema in the world - GFT; a perfect movie experience; and now I have a refound admiration for the HAIM sisters. Time to dig out this decade-old irresistible rocker again, and headbang to Licorice Pizza-lead Alana shouting those cool "HEY!"s in the chorus.

 

 

bob hund ft. Popkollo - Blommor på brinnande fartyg

Even if everything else turns to shit, bob hund will still be awesome. The modulation at 3:55 is the soundtrack to stepping it up and meeting another year with joyful determination. 

Flowers like you, only grow on burning ships

Beirut - Mimizan

Dark Was the Night is an allround excellent compilation album that I've owned since it came out, and this is just one of many amazing exclusive tracks on it. Captures the achy feeling of longing and dreading for a new adventure to start...

 

José Gonzalez - Hand on Your Heart

The best Kylie-cover. Put your hand on your heart and tell me 2022 is really over! Here's to another 12 months of endless, hopeless Tinder-swiping...