Brrrr it’s bloody freezing int it? Here’s a special winter warmers-themed instalment of Monday Music:
Wintersleep – New Inheritors (mp3)
This is a sweet song about those kids, the next generation, the bright young things, the blighters who don’t know their luck, who are seizing control. But it’s also a maudlin, muddily beautiful slowburn about grouchily growing old, about mortality, about the unfairness of it all. Maybe the drugs do work.
El Guincho – Bombay (mp3)
A typically lively effort from the Spanish maestro, blending passionate vocals and Balearic beats into a pulsatingly-paced, breathlessly-sung belter. There’s no better way to block out the winter.
Twin Sister - All Around And Away We Go (mp3)
Remember the playground, on the roundabout, going round faster and faster, the sky above, the world around, the future ahead, the sun out…? And then gradually, imperceptibly, it clouds over, and things become complicated, and cluttered and you can never quite get those feelings back, however hard you try.
Julian Lynch – Rancher (mp3)
My flatmate said recently that he believe rainbows come down someplace on earth; it is just a case of finding where. I’m not sure I believe him, but if he’s right, I know exactly where it’ll be. I’m not telling though – it’s my dizzy little secret, one I clutch close to my heart like a winning lottery ticket.
Givers – Up Up Up (mp3)
I hear the intro to this song, and thoroughly expect to hate it. My hand hovers over the delete icon like a hitman impassively behind his sniper. But then I do what any musical assassin shouldn’t: I fall in love with my prey. It’s warm. It’s full of fun. It’s alive. Dammit, but it’s all the things I want to be. I lay down my guns and walk into the future.
Monday Music’s a weekly post (guess which day?) where I temporarily abandon my London focus for five songs from artists anywhere that I’ve enjoyed in the past week