Sufjan Stevens - carrie and lowell live, 2017

“How’s the master of melancholy?”

“The sovereign of sorrow?”

“The duke of dolor?”

Club 8 - just like heaven, 2024

"it's pretty much impossible to listen to a Club 8 release without getting completely lost in their back catalogue, and it's a place definitely worth escaping to."

Johnny Marr With Tim Burgess - getting away with it live, 2023

"Introducing Burgess, Marr told the crowd, “We’re going to play a disco song from Manchester, from the Haçienda.” He added, “What’s even better, we’re going to be joined by my friend — he’s a national treasure — Mr. Tim Burgess from The Charlatans.” After the show, Burgess posted footage of the moment, calling it “such a thrill.”

The New Pornographers - whiteout conditions live, 2017

"Songs about depression, society and the environment sound euphoric, with elements of 80s synth pop and 90s fuzz and the racing tempos only slowing slightly for evocative closer Avalanche Alley."

The Smiths - stop me if you think you've heard this one before, 1987

"I was really pleased that the first solo as such on a Smiths record was one you could sing... I liked the melody at the end of 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before,' but it just felt a little too accomplished. I wanted it to sound like a punk player who couldn't play, so I fingered it on one string, right up and down the neck. I could have played it with harmonics or my teeth, or something clever, but the poignancy would have gone out of the melody."

Luke Sital-Singh - strange and beautiful i'll put a spell on you cover, 2019

"Like a lot of people I first heard the magical tones of Aqualung on that VW advert way back when, and ever since Matt Hales has been one of my favourite modern day singer/songwriters”

Thomas Dybdahl - moving pictures, 2017

"To feel totally immersed in the soul of an album is something that I seldom experience of late. However, in Thomas Dybdahl’s latest record, ‘The Great Plains’, I find my soul submerged in a sonic ocean, caressed by waves from an ethereal plane of reality hitherto uncharted. It may sound pretentious, but bear with me."

Johnny Marr - there is a light that never goes out live, 2015

“For a long time I worked on the premise that we should always have a song on each album that people said, ‘That should be a single.’ But in fact really wasn’t,” he said. “‘Reel Around the Fountain’ was that for the first album and ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ for The Queen Is Dead.”

Bonnie Prince Billy And Matt Sweeney - i gave you, 2005

"No matter your tastes, somewhere there's a Will Oldham record waiting just for you: Superwolf sees Oldham's Bonnie "Prince" Billy incarnation pairing with Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney to crank out grim, skeletal gothic folk that's alternately absurd and heartbreaking. For the most part, Superwolf is so bare-boned it feels spontaneous, looping around a stark guitar melody or a bit of nonsensical wordplay, and eventually oozing into something so weird and beautiful it's almost hard to hear."

Club 8 - shape up, 2010

"Johan Angergård has been like a musical sponge soaking up his current interest, whether it was noise pop, synth pop, or post-punk, and then re-creating it with uncanny precision."

Wim Mertens - no testament live, 2015

"Wim Mertens continues to perform and record in different formats: solo piano, duo (violin or clarinet/saxophone, piano), trio (violin or clarinet/saxophone, cello, piano) with different ensembles and also with a symphony orchestra."

Pet Shop Boys - being boring seven inch version, 1990

"Not just one of the greatest songs about the Aids epidemic, but one of the greatest songs written about mortality and memory, Being Boring was a lightning bolt even amid Pet Shop Boys’ imperial phase (the imperial phase for which that phrase was coined). The lyrical evocations of impetuous youthful optimism and painful reflection are magnificent, the lines about bolting through a closing door a perfect example of their ability to turn something specific – the loss of innocence and carefree hedonism wreaked on the gay community by HIV – into something universal about youth. The music perfectly mirrors them, its melodic shift from melancholy to warmth, midway through the verses, understated but extraordinarily powerful."

The The - the beaten generation, 1989

"Instead of the darkly polished dance-pop styling of earlier albums Soul Mining and Infected, Mind Bomb opens up the music to reveal a slow, winding textured world of sound, thanks in no small measure to Marr. Lyrical subjects include politics, religion, and romance."

Elbow - seven veils, 2019

"The album has a darker lyrical tone than previous Elbow albums, with singer Guy Garvey's lyrics relating to Brexit, the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy and the deaths of his father and two close friends. It was widely praised by critics, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming the band's third consecutive chart-topping studio album."

Kevin Morby - dorothy, 2016

"Kevin Morby's "Dorothy" is an ode to his guitar (in turn, named for his grandmother), which he serenades like a lover overcome by gratitude."

Thomas Dybdahl - three mile harbor, 2017

"Three Mile Harbor" is a song by Thomas Dybdahl, a Norwegian singer-songwriter known for his introspective and soulful music. The song is from his album "The Great Plains," released in 2017. Dybdahl's music often blends elements of folk, pop, and jazz, and his lyrics often explore themes of love, longing, and self-reflection. "Three Mile Harbor" is a poignant and atmospheric track, showcasing Dybdahl's distinctive vocals and emotive songwriting style.

Outros olhares: ilha de Suomenlinna, Helsinquia, Finlândia, Outono a começar, em 2023

The Jesus And Mary Chain - almost gold, 1992

"Honey's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1992 on Blanco y Negro Records. It marked a return to a more abrasive sound for the group, as well as incorporating elements of alternative dance. The title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style."

Lee Scratch Perry - enlightened, 2019

“Him white, but him think black. And he’s not a bad-minded person neither. So me choose good-minded people to work with, people with scientifical mind, educational brain, arts and craft, because he’s a scientist, doing music science and music obeah. The album was a display of some magical vibration like curse and healing. I like the album, because me speak my mind, talk what me want to talk and speak the truth; there’s nothing funny about it. I talk about how people funny and we’re supposed to love one another but we can’t love one another because we’re too grudgeful. Individually, people don’t want nothing else but what the other man have and the Devil makes them, because the Devil copy and make people too. The Devil want to be God, so the Devil form a gang with gangsters, killers, murderers, thieves and fakes to trick the wise people. But most of the people, it’s not God make them, it’s the Devil make them.”

REM - electron blue, 2004

"Electron Blue" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released as the third single from their thirteenth studio album Around the Sun on February 28, 2005. Written by group members Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, the song features a synthesizer-heavy arrangement. Its lyrics describe an electric hallucinogenic drug made of light, a concept which was developed from a recurring dream of Stipe's. Upon release as a single, "Electron Blue" peaked at numbers 43 and 26 on the singles charts of Ireland and the United Kingdom respectively. Michael Stipe performed on the Around the Sun tour with a blue band painted across his eyes as a reference to the song, his personal favorite from Around the Sun."

 Such a great song!