this is the story of two lovers who fall in (and out) of love, as the world is ending.
This mix collects most of the music that I've been listening to in the past few months. Honestly, I haven't been able to listen to a lot of music, due to being very busy, so I didn't make a summer mix. In terms of new music, I've only heard a select few releases (like Zantilla's deeply personal "Vanishing Grove" and MILLION SUNDAY's "DEEPER WATER/FATHERS KEEPER") as well as a few mainstays and individual tracks (been enjoying Fujii Kaze's two albums a lot lately!).
I've also been listening to older metal stuff recently, especially Metallica! I found my old Master of Puppets CD, and have been introducing it to my toddler (he loves singing "master! master!" LOL).
However, in putting this mix together, I started noticing a potential narrative with the tracks I was selecting, so I decided to lean into that.
The story begins with two lovers who decide to "Run Away", as the world enters its final "Fall" (side note, People Need Goals makes really fantastic, evocative and narrative music and they are making music along with me and a few others on the AP comedy/horror podcast, Oddity Roadshow, so check that out if it sounds up your alley! The arc that just started uses my theme song for the main location!). The next few tracks depict their desperate romance together ("Parannoul - We Shine at Night", "Incubus - Summer Romance"), interspersed with the imagery of the world on the precipice of disaster ("MILLION SUNDAY - slowly slowly slowly", "WaxTerK - Jubaku"). As the end comes closer, their relationship falls apart, with Brian the Sun's "Aiiro Ni" lamenting "I hesitate even to touch you [...] I sigh for the future of us together".
Finally, the world burns down in a full-on catastrophe ("Blackened"), but as it does, a glimmer of hope shines, that we might rebuild something better on its ashes ("telebasher - prayer", "Fujii Kaze - Garden").
i'm sure none of this is narrative is related to certain current situations in the world
I hope you enjoy this mix, and if you like any of the tracks I've provided purchase/download links, so please support the artists!
full tracklist:
- Sarah Jarosz - [Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5: Volume Two] Run Away
- People Need Goals - [The Lost Year] Fall
- Parannoul - [After the Magic] We Shine at Night
- MILLION SUNDAY - [DEEPER WATER/FATHERS KEEPER] slowly slowly slowly
- Incubus - [S.C.I.E.N.C.E.] Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)
- WaxTerK - [EYEBALLPLANETINTHEVASTUNIVERSE Vol.2] Jubaku
- Frums - HALL
- Brian The Sun - [NON SUGAR] Aiiro Ni.
- Polyphia - [Remember That You Will Die] All Falls Apart
- Zantilla - [Vanishing Grove] Skin
- FLOOR BABA - [PREHISTORY] NO FEAR OF DEATH
- Metallica - […And Justice for All] Blackened
- telebasher - [SAVIOR] prayer
- Fujii Kaze - [LOVE ALL SERVE ALL] Garden