Gray Days and Gold, March 2024
Hello, friends. Here we sit in the good old days between the pandemic and the war. What can you do but try to put something beautiful into this broken world, and my monthly contribution is a fake radio show full of the best new under-the-radar musicians I’ve heard. It’s called Gray Days and Gold.
You can listen to this episode via the embedded player just below in this blog post, or on the Mixcloud website, via the Mixcloud mobile app, on your Sonos system, etc. (If you’re reading via an email digest in which the audio player isn’t embedded, please click the button below.)
There’s also a more barebones iteration of this episode’s playlist (minus my commentary, as well as songs that are missing from the streaming libraries) on Spotify and Apple Music.
If you like what you hear, please support the artists. You’ll find buy links to the tracks in the bulleted list below.
Gray Days and Gold, March 2024
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, “Destejer” (2024) • BUY
- AstroMike Gordon, “The Light” (2024) • BUY
- Uwade, “Out of My Mind” (2024) • BUY
- Halo Maud, “Celebrate” (2024) • BUY
- Cosmo Sheldrake, “Interdimensional” (2024) • BUY
- Marina Allen, “Red Cloud” (2024) • BUY
- Cereus Bright, “Unfaithful” (2024) • BUY
- The Narcotix, “The Lovers” (2024) • BUY
- Momus, “Waterspout” (2024) • BUY
- Lavinia Blackwall, “Morning to Remember” (2024) • BUY
- Jessica Pratt, “World on a String” (2024) • BUY
- Bly Wallentine, “A Little at a Time” (2024) • BUY
- Julia Holter, “Evening Mood” (2024) • BUY
- Alison Eales, “Goodbye” (2023) • BUY
Other worthwhile things
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
If your public library or university offers the streaming video service Kanopy, their catalog includes the excellent 2006 documentary on Scott Walker. Executive-produced by David Bowie, filmed during the making of The Drift, and featuring a cast of luminaries, it’s essential viewing not least because it’s the one time that the famously reclusive artist opted to participate in an examination of his work. Witness, too, Brian Eno listening to “Fat Mama Kick” from The Walker Brothers’ 1978 Night Flights and exclaiming:
I have to say it’s humiliating to hear this. You just think, Christ, we haven’t got any further. You know, I just keep hearing all these bands that sound like bloody Roxy Music and Talking Heads. They haven’t got any further than this. It’s a disgrace really.
Gouldman & Godley perform “Old Wild Men” and “Cry”
In case you missed it, Kevin Godley stood in with Graham Gouldman’s touring 10cc band to provide vocals for a couple of songs at the Royal Albert Hall on March 25: the timeless “Old Wild Men” and Godley & Creme’s “Cry”. Watch below or click here.
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