Listening - 2023-10-08

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 23:59:15 +0100

	Artist	Title	Album	Plays
1	Petrol Girls	Sick & Tired	Baby	7
2	Destroy Boys	Drink	Open Mouth, Open Heart	5
3	Petrol Girls	Bones	Baby	5
4	Lucy Dacus	Timefighter	Historian	4
5	Julien Baker	Sprained Ankle	Sprained Ankle	4
6	Japanese Breakfast	Paprika	Jubilee	4
7	Japanese Breakfast	Be Sweet	Jubilee	4
8	Petrol Girls	Violent by Design	Baby	3
9	Petrol Girls	Unsettle	Baby	3
10	Tiny Moving Parts	The Midwest Sky	Breathe	3

I’ve been running to the Petrol Girls’s Baby as a replacement for Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come for high-tempo music with sufficient ire behind it to help me push through the fact that I hate moving my body in this way. It’s been a worthy change: Ren Aldridge’s vocals have a grit that Dennis Lyxzén’s just lack and the instrumentation - while not as genre-deviating as the introduction to Tannhäuser/Derivè, as an example - has its moments that stave off any potential motonomy, with the incredibly bouncy verse riff in Preachers being set at odds with the slower and somewhat syncopated rhythms of Unsettle. The only really offputting thing about the album is the switching between a ’long a’ and ‘short a’ vowel sound in the pronunciation of ‘bath’ in Bones, which as someone who speaks English correctly bothers me (‘short a’ only, there’s no ‘r’ in the word).

Listening - 2023-10-01

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:59:15 +0100

	Artist	Title	Album	Plays
1	Japanese Breakfast	Posing in Bondage	Jubilee	8
2	Japanese Breakfast	Be Sweet	Jubilee	8
3	Courtney Barnett	Pedestrian at Best	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	7
4	Japanese Breakfast	Slide Tackle	Jubilee	6
5	Japanese Breakfast	Savage Good Boy	Jubilee	6
6	Japanese Breakfast	In Hell	Jubilee	6
7	Olivia Rodrigo	bad idea right?	GUTS	5
8	Japanese Breakfast	Paprika	Jubilee	4
9	Japanese Breakfast	Kokomo, IN	Jubilee	4
10	Olivia Rodrigo	love is embarrassing	GUTS	3

I’ve been reading Crying in H Mart and it’s already changed how I view Japanese Breakfast’s music: everything in Slide Tackle’s revisiting of an obsession and wanting to be better has become a matter of the fact that Michelle Zauner’s mother insisted she could never keep up with her extracurriculars as a child. Was football another one of these? Did she wish she could have ‘[navigated] the hate in her heart’ to stick with the sport? Is the ‘ache’ she sought to meet the one for a past love of a sport? Sometimes heartbreak is just heartbreak, as much as Gareth Campesinos’s love of football allegories may have conditioned me otherwise when someone mentions the ugly game: For Whom The Belly Tolls’s ‘Scout yourself as a one-man team/You’re a one-club man denied a testimonial’ and Every Defeat a Divorce’s turning-around of Three Lions will probably remain for the rest of my life the only things inspired by football that have brought any beauty into the world.

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Listening - 2023-10-08

Listening - 2023-10-01