dumping the music that shows up in my head: ‘Corporeal’ by Broadcast (we miss you, Trish):
dumping the music that shows up in my head: ‘Corporeal’ by Broadcast (we miss you, Trish):
Elliott Smith, ‘Independence Day’ (we miss you, Elliott):
Sleater-Kinney, ‘Jumpers’ (had to be a live recording, and the ones filmed from the crowd are better at capturing how Corin’s voice comes in like a tornado):
The Telescopes, ‘You Set My Soul’ (discovered via a Select Magazine compilation tape; unlike most of their other stuff; someone once called it ‘shoegaze jazz’. I know this track as intimately as a lover and still discover new things in it.)
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Radiohead, ‘Let Down’:

Bows, ‘Big Wings’ (‘good intentions run aground’)
This Is The Kit, ‘Moonshine Freeze’ (‘cycles of three / triangles are tricky’)
Belinda Carlisle, ‘Circle In the Sand’ (like I said, this is a pure braindump):
Björk, 'Um Akkeri', because 'The Anchor Song' is a hymn in both English and Icelandic:
The Magnetic Fields, ‘Yeah! Oh Yeah!’, an entire mood:
Radiohead, ‘House of Cards’ — one of those songs where I had a wordless snippet on loop in my head and couldn’t recall the title and then somehow was guided to the album and track in a kind of divination:
‘House of Cards’ is taken from ‘In Rainbows’ out on XL Recordings. Buy & stream it here: https://radiohead.ffm.to/inrainbowsIn Radiohead's video for ‘House o...
Lily Allen, ‘The Fear’
Suzanne Vega, ‘Cracking’:
For secret reasons: Rufus Wainwright, ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’:
David Holmes. ‘Don’t Die Just Yet’:
Agnes Obel, ‘Familiar’:
The The, ‘Uncertain Smile’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfJ-bAVEgQ
[ I found out that Agnes Obel supported The The for a handful of gigs in the US back in 2018 and had I known I would have flown out to one of them and by the end would have needed medical attention — no, I would have died, it would have been too much. ]
Dr John, ‘I Walk On Gilded Splinters’:
Ruby, 'Paraffin':
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ‘Maps’:

Nick Drake, ‘ ‘Cello Song’:
Broadcast, ‘Papercuts’ (live for the Black Sessions):
Juliana Hatfield Three, ‘I Got No Idols’, esp. from 1:30 to the end:
Richard Thompson, Words Unspoken, Sight Unseen’ (Live):