ILM 2025 Listening Club

Same playlist as before:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kWbwhTo9c6hueUu8xplzV

our 2024 thread: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=114638

Every song added from the 2023 and 2024 playlists has been moved to this archive:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nDuSiSubdcuTA1u9Fh9sd

YouTube, Tidal, Apple playlist copies are welcome and encouraged; please post here.

Sababa 5 & Sophia Solomon - Shehzadi - शहज़ादी

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCsoJmsAXs

on Batov Records

I love the bouncy melodies of this track, and Sophia Solomon's vocals are sublime

Sababa 5 collaborate with India born singer Sophia Solomon on their most exciting double A-side to date, merging Bollywood-style songs with their signature blend of Middle Eastern grooves.

“Shehzadi” (“Princess”) is an Indo-disco delight. Solomon’s Hindi vocals soar effortlessly across Sababa 5’s finely balanced arrangement of hypnotic drums, pulsing electric bass, fanning electric guitar, and sparkling synths in a beguiling minor key. There’s a strong hint of 80s nostalgia with a contemporary shine, evoking a Stranger Things meets Bollywood charm.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6qOJ1YHGwU8TzoMC0S57af?si=9640fba9028244dc

Alright, this is good! Great start to the playlist.

take a trip to Copenhagen?: ice cool Hypnagogic Pop from Smerz

Smerz - A thousand lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53UPcols38

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3g0lxrU7wv7j64QLAt2Krc?si=23de77d9d05a42a0

the piano, the production, the seductive calming vocals ...it's just so addictively blissed out

riyl: Julee Cruise, Stina Nordenstam

yes!! thank you for this!

will catch up momentarily, but my first pick is the most recent thing from caoilfhionn rose+co:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd44lyGMOPc
slowly rolling camera+caoilfhionn rose - "the new way"

and here's some diy bedroom pop from nyc. not on spotify sorry!
https://tesia.bandcamp.com/track/tender-hearted-demo

Smerz are definitely part of the Copenhagen scene (they wrote the NewJeans ep with Erika de Casier and Fine, and if you look there's an album of avant-improv with Henriette Motzfeldt and Clarissa Connelly, among others) but they are Norwegian :)

More Danish hyperpop, though I think they're from Odense. 100%Wet is the worst bandname ever, but I really like it, they do the shoegaze-with-autotune-and-beats and call it 'drum'n'gaze' which in hindsight seems very obvious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHketN6pbq0

Today we take a trip around London with Raisa K and Coby Sey:

Raisa K 'Stay' ft. Coby Sey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zn4wAacOA

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/01hSEJ4ymUJzj1jpgXkfGx?si=37a496dfc5cb488f

more blissed out Hypnagogic Pop vibes, I love the way both vocalists combine, Coby Sey's vocals are just so calming and assuring