Playlist 541 - July 2023: too young to die

Tunes for your heatwave

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Playlist
1. Decisive Pink – Dopamine (Fire Records)
2. Colleen – Subterranean-Movement I (Thrill Jockey) (playing Le Guess Who, Utrecht, Nov 11)
3. Minwhi Lee – Dream (Morr Music)
4. Yann Tiersen – Ar maner kozh (Mute) (playing Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Aug 8)
5. Spirit Fest – Lost & Found (Morr Music)
6. Saroos feat Ronald Lippok – Tin & glass (Alien Transistor)
7. Robin Saville – Beltane (Morr Music)
8. Anadol – Yapilacak Kadin (Pingipung)
9. Me Lost Me – Mirie it is while summer I last (Upset The Rhythm)
10. A.R. Kane – Crack-up (Rocket Girl)
11. Swans – Michael is done (Mute/Young God Records) (playing The Academy, Dublin, Aug 21)
12. Current Affairs – Reactor (Tough Love) (playing The Lexington, London, July 26)
13. Naked Lungs – Relentless (Naked Lungs)
14. POZI – Faulty receiver (PRAH Recordings)
15. Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire Records)
16. Water Machine – Water Machine Part II (Upset The Rhythm)
17. Heavenly – C is the heavenly option (Skep Wax Records)
18. August Cooke – Shed with me (Poets Studio)
19. Bas Jan – At the counter (Fire Records) (playing Soup Kitchen, Manchester, Nov 11)
20. Bobby Oroza & El Michels Affair – Whatcha know (Big Crown Records)
21. Henrik Lindstrand – Jord (Transformer Session) (One Little Independent)
22. Flaer – The hill (Odda Recordings)
23. Lomond Campbell – Draw breath (One Little Independent)
24. M Ward feat First Aid Kit – Too young to die (Anti/Epitaph)
25. Lack of Afro feat Greg Blackman – Loving arms (Bastion Music Group)
26. Les Imprimés – Love & flowers (Big Crown Records)
27. Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Creators of rain (Mute) (playing Grand Social, Dublin, Sept 18)
28. Robert Forster – There’s a reason (Tapete) (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 26)
29. Robert Rotifer – He’s not ill (Gare du Nord) (playing The Lexington, London, Oct 15, w/ The Monochrome Set)
30. Ry-Guy – The shop is closing (Ry-Guy)
31. Sally Anne Morgan – The center (Thrill Jockey)
32. Search Results – Flower rock rain (bandcamp)
33. Sparklehorse – Evening star supercharger (Anti)
34. Spencer Cullum – What a waste of an echo/The three magnets (Full Time Hobby) (playing Green Man Festival, Aug 19)
35. Symbol Soup – Dark horse (Sad Club Records)
36. The Still Brothers – Crazy (Lews Recordings)
37. Tom Ashbrook – Nocturne III (The Other Songs)

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