Stranger Than Paradise

Musings on life, culture, and other crap.

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Sophie May - No More Birthdays (new single) Been quite awhile, sorry! Just haven't had the desire to do my daily music posts for months BUT I decided to start again for 2024. Here's a new track from the excellent Sophie May. Btw here were my best of 2023 list (including Sophie May) in case you were interested. You can listen to the list on Spotify here. Or watch the videos here (choose play all)

The NIFTY 50 of 2023 (in no particular order except for styles relating to each other)

01. boygenius - the record 02. Holiday Ghosts - Absolute Reality 03. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name 04. The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore 05. Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever 06. Fenne Lily - Big Picture 07. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 08. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 09. Shana Cleveland - Manzanita 10. This Is the Kit - Careful of Your Keepers 11. Billie Marten - Drop Cherries 12. Sophie May - Worst Thoughts in the World 13. Dean Johnson - Nothing For Me, Please 14. Andy Shauf - Norm 15. Sparklehorse - Bird Machine 16. Durand Jones - Wait Til I Get Over 17. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 18. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings 19. Grian Chatten - Chaos For the Fly 20. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying 21. Bully - Lucky For You 22. Margaret Glaspy - Echo The Diamond 23. Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way 24. Home Front - Games of Power 25. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World 26. Pigs x7 - Land of Sleeper 27. bdrmm - I Don't Know 28. Film School - Field 29. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing ep 30. slowdive - everything is alive 31. Flyying Colours - You Never Know 32. Beach Fossils - Bunny 33. Wild Nothing - Hold 34. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 35. Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume 36. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game 37. Cloth - Secret Measure 38. JFDR - Museum 39. Beach House - Become ep 40. Art School Girlfriend - Soft Landing 41. Depeche Mode - Momento Mori 42. Sampha - Lahai 43. Everything But The Girl - Fuse 44. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple 45. FM Attack - Cosmic 46. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Nation's Most Central Location 47. Craven Faults - Standers 48. Loscil / Lawrence English - Colours of Air 49. Oliver Coates - Aftersun OST 50. Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

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Reds, Pinks, & Purples - Fuchsia Dell (from Build Love ep)

I just love when Glenn Donaldson (Reds, Pinks, and Purples) does an instrumental song that you feel could have a melancholic and wordless short film to accompany it. That his song would serve as a great score, but you haven’t seen that film yet (but yet you already know how it would make you feel). Sigh!

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Jasper Tygner (f. Art School Girlfriend) - Ready (new single)

Loving this collab between Jasper Tygner and Art School Girlfriend. (Live at Copeland Gallery).

Her voice is pure magic to me.

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The Free Design - Kije's Ouija (from Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love) Crazy lyrics and even crazier when it's delivered in that breezy sunshine vocal harmonizing they were known for. Way out, man! Just don't kick that dog is all I'm saying. We should have believed! :)

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Wild Nothing - Suburban Solutions (from Hold out Oct. 27th) More 80s sounding groovieness from Jack Tatum. Wild Nothing seems to really be embracing that 80s aesthetic this time around. Crazy video (and very dancey). Is Jack opting for drum machines and synths this time around over guitars and live playing? I'm here for the new Wild Nothing.

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A Beacon School - KITM (from yoyo out Oct. 13) Great new track from A Beacon School. New album on the way in a few weeks! Love it!

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Stereolab - Escape Pod (From the World of Medical Observations) (from The Free Design ep and also Oscillons from the Anti-Sun) I heard this track on Riley & Coe yesterday and then found this really cool video made by a fan of Apple computers. Pretty nice! Love this song and it really goes well with this video.

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Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber - Le Temple Volant (new single) Great pairing here of the great Crumb and Melody's Echo Chamber released on Crumb's own record label. Hope there's an album coming but it looks like it's just a single for now.

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Nation of Language - Stumbling Still (from Strange Disciple) Have you checked out the new album Strange Disciple from Brooklyn's Nation of Language. Great third album! Dig it! Also you can catch them doing a really great Amoeba "What's in My Bag" video here.

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Weyes Blood - Twin Flame (from And In the Darkness Hearts Aglow)

Whoo hoo! New Weyes Blood video for the track Twin Flame dropped today. It’s got some real 70s Hammer Horror / Poe vibes to it. Enjoy!

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Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (from The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We) Happy Mitski release day! Her new album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We drops today! Looking forward to listening!

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Fazerdaze - Bigger (new single) Love this new single from the great Fazerdaze! So beautiful. Hope Amelia has a new album out soon. Can't wait!

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Margaret Glaspy - Get Back (from Echo The Diamond) Have you checked out the new Margaret Glaspy album? Love this track. Her voice reminds me of Jessica Dobson from Deep Sea Diver a bit. Dig it!

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The Big Club - Marriage (from Rare Birds: Hour Of Song) Great new single from Welsh garage rockers The Bug Club! New album on the way called Rare Birds: Hour Of Song out on Oct. 18th!

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Angel Olsen - More Than This (Bryan Ferry cover) Have you heard this lovely cover of the Bryan Ferry classic from Angel's "Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories" collection from a couple of years ago? Just came across it again today and realized how much I love her voice on it. Beautiful! She also has a new track Greenville out today!

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Vanishing Twin - Marbles (from Afternoon X out Oct. 6) New Vanishing Twin single. Love it (and this band).

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Maribou State - Blackoak (single) New single from electronic duo Maribou State out now! Dig it!