Another week is close to the end, and that means that we have got another “Loved Songs” Spotify playlist for you. The list contains mostly new songs, songs from new releases – or older songs that recently have been added to Spotify. I have sneaked in a few old favourites as well, but most of them have been re-released in deluxe editions the last week, so they are kind of recent favourites as well.
Hope you like this one, and please spread it around!
Full tracklisting below:
It’s Friday, and it’s been a week with lots of good tunes. As usual, I put together my favorites from the recent week in a “Loved Songs” Spotify playlist. Here is this weeks’ playlist. Please spread it around!
Loved Songs # 11 – a spotify playlist
Full tracklisting below the break:
Here is my weekly Spotify playlist of some new songs I have liked more than others this week. Hope you like it!
The weekly Spotify playlist with the new songs I love is here in its 9th edition. Hope you find something you like here. If you are interested to hear more from one of the albums in this list, just click on the album-title to hear it all. Enjoy, and please spread it around! Bands included are among many others The Fairways, Burning Hearts, Peggy Sue, Parker Lewis, Soley, The Drums, Covergirl, Dear Reader, Butcher The Bar, Beirut, Days, Stephin Merritt and lots of others. Recommended shuffle-play!
Photo by Skinned Minkon Flickr.This week has felt quite quiet when it comes to loveable releases, but there have been some good ones. I have enjoyed the new album from Widowspeak (out on Captured Tracks) A LOT, and RIGHT NOW it’s the best album in the whole wide world for me. Next week, that may have changed, but right now I absolutely love it. There are two songs from the album in this week’s Loved Songs Spotify playlist, but I could have added the whole album to the playlist, because they’re all loved songs to me….
I have also listened a lot to the new album from Bart & Friends (out on Lost & Lonesome recording co). Be Like Pablo‘s single is still on constant rotation.
What do you listen to these days? Please tell me in a comment!
Here is this week’s LOVED SONGS Spotify Playlist! Hope you find something you like in there!
We have experienced things so horrible that it was impossible to imagine before they happened. It’s been a time full of sadness, shock and mourning, but also a time full of love and caring. The Norwegian people and the leaders, especially the PM, have done everything right in this situation. Revenge and hate has not been a focus at all, but democracy, love and anti-racism/anti-terror/anti-right wing-extremism have. The people’s response has been heart-warming, from huge marches and arrangements in support of the victims and their families in most Norwegian cities, to the amazing sea of flowers outside Oslo Cathedral. You can see a panoramic image of the flowers here. Amazing.
It makes me proud, and it makes my heart warm. We may be naive, as many have said, but if naivety means that we still can have a situation where we don’t have to be afraid and protected all the time, where guards and weapons are something we don’t see around us, where the Prime Minister still rides his bike to work, where the people can talk to the PM and the Royal family without being pushed away by guards, – where the Prime Minister a day after the attack talks to the press and the people on the street – not in some secret hiding place – if this is to be naive, I still want to be naive.
Last summer, my daughter and her friends had a long walk together with the Norwegian King and Queen, 15 minutes or so, and talked about everything from being a member of the royal family to how it is getting old. The guards were present, but they kept distance, and never pushed anyone away or interfered in any way. I still want things like that to happen in my country.
These quotes from the PM and from a member of the youth organization AUF give me hope:
“We will retaliate with more democracy”
“If one man can show so much hate, imagine how much love we all can show together”
This quote, from my old hero Morrissey, does not give me hope, – and it just makes me sad. Although I love the songs he has been a part of making, this man should shut his mouth, the sooner the better. My ears refuse to listen.
“We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead [sic]. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried s— every day.”
Today, the first of the victims from the Oslo/Utøya tragedy are buried. My thoughts are with their friends and family.
I don’t really want to talk much about music today, and I hope you understand. I have made the “Loved Songs”-playlist, as usual, but that will be the only thing you will get today. Well, not the only thing…
The artists Kråkesølv and Magnus Eliassen have made a song in support of the victims of the tragedy, where all the money from the sales will go to the Red Cross, who have done a great job in this situation. You can buy the single at Platekompaniet or iTunes.
…and here is the Spotify Playlist with the new-ish songs I have loved this week:
Whoops, Friday came early this week! I haven’t had time to plan this weekly post at all. Let’s start with the weekly Spotify playlist with my loved songs, and we’ll improvise from there:
Here is this week’s LOVED SONGS playlist on Spotify. ENJOY!
Loved Songs #3
Album of the week for me, is probably Brilliant Colors‘ “Again and again”, out on Slumberland records. It’s a pleasure listening to. It’s got huge competition for the top spot from Army Navy, who has a wonderful album out now called “The Last Place”. I’ve had this for some weeks already, and I love love love the album. Pure pop! Hugely recommended.
The new song from Dum Dum Girls is amazing, – one of the best and most focused songs I have heard from the band since “Rest of our lives”. You can listen and download it + read the story behind their new album at the good Wears The Trousers magazine. I’m also strangely attracted by the new single from Laura J. Martin, a weird and beautiful little piece of music that blends folk, rap and experimental music in a brilliant way. The song is included in the Spotify playlist.
The brilliant blog The Finest Kiss (named after one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, The Boo Radleys), have summed up the latest news in the world on indiepop in this wonderful post: http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/massive-music-news-update/
And this teaser video for Pallers’ upcoming album on Labrador records sure made me curious and interested in their new material! The new album is called “The Sea of Memories” , and will be released on September 27. You can still get the mp3 of their latest single on Labrador’s website.
Have a LOVELY weekend!
Bobby
Summer is the most boring time when it comes to new releases, but there have been some nice things happening this week.
Yesterday’s big news was that Spotify finally have arrived in the US. If you want an invite, we have a few left, so contact us and you may get one.
I am still listening a lot to the new album from Catnaps (When I was 12), which I think is absolutely lovely. You can get it from their bandcamp. I’ve also listened much to a folky band called Bobby. They have released a great new album on Partisan Records, and I like it a lot. This week, a promo of the upcoming album from Soft Metals arrived in my mailbox, and it’s a great listen. Love those dark 80s synth-pop sounds! Something to look forward to for the rest of you. Washed Out’s album “Within and without” is also a very nice, summery album I’ve been listening to recently. I doubt that it will stay with me for very long, but it’s good right now, at least.
I’ve had a retro-moment that was quite enjoyable this week. I found some old Soup Dragons-favourites, and I mean old, – before they were MTV-favourites, – on Spotify, and unlike other retro-moments I’ve had, these were quite fun to listen to. The songs that made my heart beat a bit faster were “Soft as your face” and “Pleasantly Surprised” – brilliant popsongs, both of them.
Have a look at the posts I’ve made on Eardrums the last week. Lots of my favorites are there as well.
Here is this week’s Loved Songs-list on Spotify (I have added a few favs from earlier weeks as well):
Loved Songs #2
So, how has your week in music been? Please comment!
May your weekend be the best of the best!
(I am still in love, according to this post-series byline! 
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This week, I’ve been in love with the recent single from Widowspeak (photo), “Gunshy”, which is nothing but adorable, and also the b-side of the new single by Sweden’s Vit Päls is so so so good. It’s called “Beatles på semestern”, and has some lovely lyrics in Swedish and the feeling in the song just makes my spine shiver. Other notable tracks I’ve listened a lot to recently are Comet Gain‘s “Some of us don’t want to be saved”, the whole of Oh Minnows‘ new album “For Shadows”, Elephant‘s lovely single “Ants” and this gorgeous, noisy and free indiepop-release from Ghost Animal (download on bandcamp). A band I loved when they released their debut, but have forgotten about since, is Army Navy. Their new album is pure pop bliss, and should be checked out by a lot more people. I have also been completely in love with the semi-electronic duo Conquering Animal Sound from Glasgow. They have a new single out now, and their album is also lovely. Beautiful and interesting music (see the video below in this post for a sample of their music).
I know some of you don’t have access to Spotify, but for the ones who have it, I want to share a playlist of some of my favourite tracks from the recent weeks. Here you are:
Loved Songs#1 – a Spotify playlist
What are your favourite songs, albums, bands etc from the recent weeks? Please comment!
(on a sidenote: I called the category for this post “Love”, and I love how the blog writes “Posted on July 8, 2011 by Knut in Love“ in the byline for this post! Nice! )
