03.26 mix

Handshakes and platonic forehead kisses all around for getting through another winter. This is what I was listening to last month, a sequence for roaring your way out of the hibernation den. Onward…

Diamond Dogs - David Bowie

Future Spring - Gladie

Use Once and Destroy - Hole

Impuissance - Rubble

The Void - The Raincoats

Anywave - Lala Lala

Blow My Mind - Robyn

Levva - Øystein Skar

Sunday Morning - Beth Gibbons

My Home Is Not In This World - Natalie Bergman

Spent a lot of time thinking and reading about death during this last gasp of winter. It might be time to do some living.

- shel

02.26 mix

A selection of tunes befitting false spring: reflection, defiance, sorrow, yearning…not necessarily in that order.

Stutter - Owelu Dreamhouse

Heavy - Momoko Gill

Weightless Above The Water - Marissa Nadler

Light Night Mountains All That - Ratboys

Lightning - Mitski

Flou - Aline Winant

I Miss The Way You Swim - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Goodnight Moon - Billie Marten

Living With It (feat. Feist) - Charlotte Cornfield

There but for Fortune - Joan Baez

Not represented in this sequence is my in-depth revisiting of the Nine Inch Nails discography as I was able to catch them live once again last month. This will get its own post (and by post I mean a long-winded sentimental essay that absolutely no one asked for). Next month, the REAL spring mix.

Hang in there.

- shel

01.26 mix

Greetings, earthling… I am here and so are you. Howling into the void.

Januaries tend to be a clenched fists and gritted teeth situation over at Shelby HQ, this past one was certainly no exception. Here is a sequence of tracks that kept me company:

Cut Me Open - Um Jennifer?

Where Do I Go from Here? - Caroline Rose

Sylvia - Julien Baker & TORRES

Mr. Marketer - Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover

Muck - Annie DiRusso

Blowing On Embers - Bellbird

Wreck - Neko Case

Tears Through a Sunrise - Daniel Romano & The Outfit

Small Changes - Michael Kiwanuka

But Can You Dance In Water? - Cedric Noel

Some notable glimmers encountered last month: writing new music with my dear friends of almost 20 years, receiving the year-end Paternoster Listener Alliance package (a project that I find endlessly inspiring), learning drums.

Befriend your neighbours. See you soon.

- shel