Today’s Friday mixtape comes from Whyte Horses who have assembled their YouTube favourites for us. Their debut single ‘The Snowfalls‘ is out on 20th October with a single launch show on October 25th at The Islington.
1. Dave Bixby – Drug Song
Supreme xian depression, you can’t fake songs like this.
2. Gal Costa – Divino Maravilhoso
The early works of Gal Costa are colossal, this woman is a true warrior. Soul, fuzz, bahian folk, subversive lyrics and intricate melodies all in the face of a crazed dictatorship.
3. Ilous & Decuyper – L’elu
When I talk to Julie about the French songs I love, they generally have poor lyrics. I always want her to sing in French, but she likes English better. It turns out this song is lyrically pretentious and not as pretty in its native tongue.
4. Papa M – Up North Kids
During the making of our album we would play this song every night at dusk to prepare us for our evening session.
5. Mark Fry – Norman Soldier
The story of Mark Fry was the inspiration for us to record in Italy. He recorded the seminal Dreaming of Alice album during a short time living in Rome, the loose floral production feels like the sonic equivalent of sun shimmering through the trees. It should be noted that there’s a break on this record that sounds like something from the Beta Band catalogue, I still have trouble believing it was actually recorded in 1971.
6. Idy Lynn – Up In My Mind
Five-star Vashti Bunyan-esque ballad. Immaculate pop made by old men.
7. Sagitarius – Glass
To look through glass and change the look of the world, this sends me back to my grandmothers house as a child. She had a red glass ashtray which did precisely this, any music that transports you back to those early sensations in life are precious.
8. David Bowie – Young Americans
A Bowie track that has grown and grown on us, probably the best set of lyrics he’s ever written, a razor like performance on the Dick Cavett show from someone edging closer to breakdown. Nice touch to use Lennon’s opening line from A Day in the Life in the outro.
9. The Goodwillies – Blue Honey
Don’t really know anything about this band but this is a tricksy little number that lingers long in the memory, it seems to have been influenced by the story of bees in the Northeast France producing lucid colours of honey.
10. Arthur Russell – Habit of You
We’ve become great aficionados of fan videos on youtube, here’s a prime example with a killer song. ‘Habit of You’ is one of our all time major-minor classics, in testing times Arthur Russell‘s fearless attitude and musical smorgasbord is something we cling on to.
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