This Week's Playlist #150 - The February 2025 edition
10 tracks I listened a lot in Feb + 3 links
Hello everyone!
This Week's Playlist - Season 4, Episode 2.
Hello everyone!
February's gone in a whirl.
Shortest month of the year, grinding at work, grim weather, and politicians throwing axes at each other (I was writing about it almost 3 years ago).
Second monthly episode, with 10 songs for your ears with notes about each pick. I. And before that, some links I found interesting.
Hope you enjoy them, and see you next month.
Links
Adrien started a (French) newsletter. 1st personal episode.
A review by Bandcamp of Ruptured Record (the infamous Lebanese alternative artist)
A very unsettling yet fascinating graphic novel about Armenia
There is a YouTube link for each of the songs on the cover, and here are the playlists for each streaming platform:
1. Opeth - A Story Never Told
I went to see Opeth live earlier this week at the Roundhouse. Phenonemal, as usual. I’ve been following them live for more than 20 years now and this is one of my most memorable nights with them.
Their new album marks a return to a more growling sound but the last song in a nice, more melodic epilogue.
2. VÆV - Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
I’ve followed Mehdi (the mastermind behind VÆV) for even longer (since the early days of 2000s online music communities). Since with his band Breaklose and more recently with VÆV.
He released a new album earlier this month, completely DIY approach.
Expect “pop melodies, new and old synths, folk, hip-hop beats, ambient textures, string quartets, guitar solos, Gregorian chant, early 2000s Finnish gothic metal, Michael Jackson, and more.”
Here is one of my favorite tracks of the album.
3. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Escape
A ambient track track from the soundtrack of a niche survival apocalypse movie I watched this month.
4. Mogwai - God Gets You Back
Mogwai released a new album I had on spin for most of the month of Feb
5. Maii & Zeid - Hassafer Baeed
Thanks to Spotify suggestions, I discovered another Zeid Hamdan (the living god of alternative lebanese music) usical ventures, a duo with Maii, a composer from Egypt.
6. Justice - Phantom 1.5 (live)
I saw Justice live in Alexandra Palace. Briliant show but I somehow ended up missing the live raw energy of their first tour.
7. Belleruche - Fuzz Face
A trip-hop record we played a lot in the office’s speakers.
8. Daniel Blumberg - Search Party (The Brutalist soundtrack)
The Brutalist movie:
The closing track of the 2nd part. 3h15min long, split in 2 parts. I much more preferred the first one, but the closing scene is so intense, supported by this grandiose finale.
9. Rage Against The Machine - The Narrows
I also dug into the 1st Rage Against The Machine album demos. There are some interesting tracks in there.
10. Harakiri For The Sky - Street Spirit (Fade Out) feat. Groza
A heavy metal cover of Radiohead to finish this month’s playlist.
Thanks Rakkan for the discovery (For the metalheads here, Rakkan is curating a “Song of the Day” daily playlist on Spotify.)
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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