This Week's Playlist #31 - The City edition (& a heavy metal bonus)
Week #31 - The City edition
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Week 31!
5 bands with cities in their name for a more summery and chilled playlist this week :)
And 3 songs from of my current heavy metal rotation as well.
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The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me
The Dresden Dolls are a drums / piano punk duet from Boston Massachusetts, describing their style as "Brechtian punk cabaret"
Full album: Dresden Dolls (2004)
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Algiers - Dispossession
Another really interesting underdog band from Atlanta. Algiers blends gospel, industrial dancing beats, noise rock and post-punk in a style I've never heard before.
Full album: There Is No Year (2020)
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Calexico - Crystal Frontier
A country / folk classic here. The song is about people whose lives traverse between Mexico and the United States, a theme that has always interested the band (they are from Arizona).
Full Album: Even My Sure Things Fall Through (1998)
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Buenavista Social Club - Candela
Another classic here.
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Babylon Zoo - Space Man
Some good old 90s electronic rock music to finish this week :-)
Heavy metal bonus
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Imperial Triumphant - Merkurius Gilded
Fascinating jazz-blasted landscape of noise
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Panzerfaust - The Far Band at the River Styx
Black metal
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Altas - Ascetic Reflection
DIssonant Death metal
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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Week #27: The "Best albums of 2022 so far" edition
Week #26: Happy summer
Week #25: The Hellfest edition
Week #24: The Pride edition
Week #23: The Basketball edition
Week #22: The Bank Holiday edition (+ another a heavy metal bonus)
Week #20: The Vangelis edition
Week #19: The Saxophone edition
Week #18: The Lebanese edition
Week #17: The "Labour Day" edition
Week #16: The "My friends got talent" edition
Week #15: Happy Easter
Week #14: Famous bands I started to listen to at the age of 40
Week #13: The Number of the Beast edition
Week #12: The Fat of the Land edition
Week #11: The Modern Soul voices
Week #10: Heavy metal goes pop music
Week #09: The Mask edition
Week #08: RIP Mark Lanegan
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Week #03: Albums for 2022 2/2
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