Summer slowdown is already underway. This week’s playlist had to make room for summer songs, war songs, death songs, and even a handful of love songs.
Now that Max Blansjaar’s new album is out, we were finally able to play our favorite track, “Pieces of the Sun.” We fell easily into the low key slackdom of Max’s world, a world that will come crashing down one day as flowers turn to dust, our hero now expendable, nervously “waiting for someone.” It’s all so sweet, so simple, and yet, so ominous, evoking a future in which people are no longer necessary.
Back to back guilty pleasures from Magdalena Bay (“Death and Romance”) and Ariana Grande (“Ordinary Thing”).
Oldies from Guided by Voices and Stereolab, who different though they are, sound more like each other than like any of the music in the decades since.
Various and sundry, on and on…
June 26, 2024
Imperial Designs
Space Ghost – What Day Is It?
Meatballs Soundtrack – Are You Ready For the Summer
Emo Phillips – Poetry and Scuba Diving
The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodyte Caveman
Max Blansjaar – Pieces of the Sun
Ariana Grande – Ordinary Thing
Magdalena Bay – Death and Romance
Prince and the Revolution – Father’s Song
Dez Dickerson – I went ZBA (Modernaire)
Elaltitan – Merry Go Round
Blake Jones & the Trike Shop – Mock Stoner Voices
Salute – Luv Struck (feat Piri)
Ahmed Fakroun – Soleil soleil
Axiom Funk – Order Within The Universe
Guided by Voices – A Good Flying Bird
Stereolab – Laissez-Faire
Antonio Emmanuel – Terrorist of Love
Atarashii Gakko! – Forever Sisters
The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun
Lonnie Hewitt – Reflection
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) – Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Bomb. Repeat. Bomb. (1954)
The Revenants – Where There Is Ovna
Prince & the Revolution – Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix)
Nonestica – Centrifugal Force
The Little Willies – I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Prince – I Would Die For You (extended version)
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