Recommended Listening

New material from Slowgold, Travis, and Berlin’s junk-E-cat. Bowie: a video to go along, just cause I thought it was a rather nice live version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKnCcB5YDU

New material from Asaf Avidan and Rufus Wainwright.

New music from Polica, Morrissey, Hilltop Hoods and Ben Gibbard.

With a nod to Richard Swift who may have passed in 2018 (sadly related to alcoholism, not far from Vancouver, in Tacoma), but I only just discovered by hearing it mentioned on Song Exploder. I first chanced upon him back in the eMusic days when they recommended his album, if I remember correctly, and I bought it. He struck me like a nice progression of Harry Nilsson and that album stuck with me ever since. Looking up the info on that album it appears to also include Sean Lennon on it somewhere, and was co-produced by Mark Ronson.

Villagers

Mixtape - April 2019 (Spotify)

April Theme - Giants of Prog Rock Vol.1 (Spotify)

Mixtape - March 2019 (Spotify)

Mixtape - Covers Vol.4 (Spotify)

Rick Wakeman - Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Mixtape - 60s Vol.5 (Spotify)

Kathryn Joseph

T. Rex - Tanx My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand snowbird - Moon

Bonus November Playlist

Mixtape - November 2018 (Spotify)

Followup to Vol 1.

As I hit 30 this month, here’s a look back on the music that shaped and provided the soundtrack to my late teens and early twenties.