H's five;
Sasha - just beautiful - I love the man
Susumu Yokota - lovely tune
Banco de Gaia - legendary status and fully deserving of it
Tourist - decent enough
Chris Malinchak - not sure it's available on Spot any more but it's a nice tune - almost got something of the original 'Last Rhythm' about it...
D's five;
Mystery Jets - interesting - I've put the album on my phone to listen to in the car - thanks
Charles Bradley - geezer's got a great voice but I don't think this song is for me
Frankie Knuckles - one of the best things to ever happen to DHS
Holy Ghost - I've heard a lot about this lot and not sure I've ever actually listened to anything by them before now - not 100% sure what to make of this track - need to put it in the context of an album - will have to put the whole thing on my phone...
Everything Everything - crazy lyric - quirky music - I like it
S's five;
The 'theme' of my selection, if there actually is one, could be described as 'new music from people who made their names decades ago'...
The Pet Shop Boys - two tunes from their latest album - and each one pays a proper homage to some classic dance records - listening to the chorus of 'Pop Kids' and I can hear the piano from Bizarre Inc's 'Playing With Knives' and 'Inner Sanctum' borrows massively from the classic Age of Love by Age of Love. No one does electronic pop better than the PSB's.
James - the same band that did 'Sit Down' and 'Come Home' at the end of the '80s and early '90s - two tracks from their latest album - 'Moving On' has an accompanying video that is genuinely one of the best music videos I've ever watched - makes me well up even remembering it - beautiful. 'Curse Curse' is a joyful, uplifting, piece of indie-dance heavily loaded with double-entendre and a name check for Lionel Messi.
Ben Watt - the guy who was the music behind Everything But The Girl in the '80s and then went on to run the phenomenal 'Buzzin Fly' record label and DJ all over the globe - he's gone back to where he started and has put out a couple of albums of him singing his own songs - I originally wanted to pick 'Young Man's Game', from his previous album, which is his lament for his own DJing career, but it's weirdly unavailable as I type this so instead I've gone with 'Winter's Eve' which is probably my favourite track off his latest album.
Outta here...
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