Playlist 550 - May 2024: long way home

spring has sprung in this neck of the woods

tunes for your spring

enjoy

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Playlist
1. Amy Rigby – Dylan in Dubuque (Tapete Records)
2. Marewrew – Sikata kuykuy / Snow falling from a tree (Pingipung)
3. Daisy Rickman – Falling through the rising sun (Fire Records)
4. Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Never work (BB*Island)
5. Pupkulies + Rebecca & Tibau Tavares – Nha badjam (Normoton)
6. claire rousay – it could be anything (Thrill Jockey) (playing Project Arts Centre, Dublin, June 1)
7. Myriam Gendron – Long way home (Thrill Jockey)
8. Oisin Leech – Malin gales (Outside Music) (playing Another Love Story Festival, Aug 24)
9. Big Brave – canon: in canon (Thrill Jockey) (playing Portals Festival, London, May 25)
10. Bjork & Rosalía – Oral (Olof Dreijer Remix) (One Little Independent)
11. Chalk feat Fears – Bliss (Nice Swan Records)
12. English Teacher – R&B (Island Records) (playing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, Nov 12)
13. Human Interest – Shapeshifting (Nice Swan Records) (playing The Great Escape, Brighton, May 18)
14. Marcel Wave – Barrow boys (Upset The Rhythm)
15. Home Counties – You break it, you bought it (Submarine Cat) (playing Dot 2 Dot, Bristol, May 25)
16. Marina Allen – Red cloud (Fire Records) (playing The Slaughtered Lamb, London, June 21)
17. Marta Del Grandi – The best sea (Fire Records)
18. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements – Nest of earrings (Thrill Jockey)
19. Monde UFO – Amen (Fire Records)
20. muckno – manboy (bandcamp)
21. The Last Sound – Drugged on the rugged plain (Cruel Nature)
22. Sprints – Drones (City Slang) (playing All Together Now, Waterford, Aug 3)
23. Yosa Peit – Shelly (Fire Records)
24. Jessica Pratt – Life is (City Slang) (playing Union Chapel, London, June 6)
25. Peter Beatty – Half-life (Nightjar Recordings)
26. SUN – Sun (Alien Transistor)
27. St Vincent – Big time nothing (Virgin)
28. Swansea Sound – Markin it down (Skep Wax)
29. The Music of Sound – Second light (Monochrome Motif Records)
30. Will Gregory Ensemble – Young Archimedes (Mute) (playing Hidden Notes Festival, Stroud, Sept 21-22)
31. Adrian Crowley – The white birds (Dimple Discs) (Bring Your Own Hammer)
32. Richard Hawley – Prism in jeans (BMG)
33. Penny Arcade – When the feeling is gone (Tapete Records)

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