Here’s mine:
https://twitter.com/seaninsound/status/1292719798607130624?s=21
Murderers all
JFC. Treat yourself and don’t read the comments below the tweet.
Ttoooooo late
Here’s a little blurb I wrote for today’s show and the tracklisting
Drowned in Sound’s Unhappy Hour 2
As an antithesis to summer party anthems,
DiS compiles two hours of mellow and melancholy Monday “vibes” hosted by the website’s founder Sean Adams. Tune in for a mix of drone, sad-songer-writerer, and zoned-out RnB. There’s a sparse cover of Black Sabbath and new music from Angel Olsen, Ed Harcourt and Howling Bells’ Juanita Stein alongside classic cuts from Nick Cave and Cocteau Twins.
Listen live from 4pm on www.sohoradiolondon.com or it’ll be on Mixcloud later, subscribe Mixcloud
Charlotte de Witte - What’s In The Past
Zola Jesus - Changes
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
Land of Talk - Weight of That Weekend
Juanita Stein - Snapshot
Cocteau Twins - A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
Lykke Li - deep end - alt version
Frank Ocean - Dear April (Side A - Acoustic)
Mary Lattimore - Sometimes He’s In My Dreams
Grouper - Clearing
Ed Harcourt - Drowning In Dreams
The Antlers - Kettering
Timber Timbre - Creep on Creepin’ On
The Stills - Everything I Build
Perfume Genius - Nothing at All
Anna von Hausswolff - The Truth, The Glow, The Fall
FKA twigs - mirrored heart
Moses Sumney - Polly
GAIKA - Seven Churches For St Jude
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
Billy Mackenzie - Winter Academy
Bing & Ruth - Weighout
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia
Thanks to US read for inspiring this Unhappy Hour season of shows. More about how that happened here https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsDkV5n4TK/?igshid=et3h2ofknipw
His profile pic makes him look like a miserable young acoustic troubadour who’s sold 17 million albums and permanently on the Radio 1 A list
Then again he isn’t as his name is not Tom. Ie Tom Walker, Tom Grennan, Tom Odell and Tom Sheeran
Five or six on A Hero’s Death by Fontaines DC. Still can’t tell if that band are the saviours of rock or the new Stereophonics.
Everything Everything’s The Peaks. Jon’s always been cagey about its meaning but I have always felt it was him singing the end of the world, and it crushes me every time.
And a second Everything Everything pick, Put Me Together, which makes me consider the burgeoning alienation and xenophobia of the last few years, the Other-ising we are constantly doing to ourselves, the double-edged sword of ‘difference’.
Miserable songs are the best and there are way too many to choose from, so I’ll go with the one that’s been in my head all day, The centerpiece and bleakest song on their bleakest album, it’s completely suffocating and devoid of anything resembling hope. The album artwork says it all.
The Flaming Lips - Butterfly How Long It Takes to Die
You can listen to this month’s show whenever you like on Mixcloud here: