Viewing Gum Listening Post #19

N-n-n-n-n-nineteen. N-n-nineteen. Nineteen! Apparently, as a tiny child, Paul Hardcastle’s ’19’ was my favourite song on account of it being the number of our house. Obviously none of the war and tragedy stuff caught my attention – but hey, when you’re a child, simply recognising numbers correctly was something to celebrate. And so too do we all celebrate a new Viewing Gum Listening Post. Yay! And a bumper one at that! As ever, it kicks off pretty boisterous and ends up more melancholy and contemplative, but if you didn’t know the procedure by now, you’ll never learn. Stream this sucker below or click nyah for thirteen tip-top tunes handpicked by yours truly.

 

1. Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
2. Tobacco – Eruption (Gonna Get My Hair Cut At The End of the Summer)
3. Bo Ningen – Slider
4. The Afghan Whigs – Matamoros
5. Conor Oberst – Governor’s Ball
6. Doe Eye – The House I Grew Up In
7. The Phantom Band – The Wind That Cried The World
8. Phosphorescent – Ride On / Right On
9. Tom Vek – Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)
10. Owen Pallett – The Sky Behind the Flag
11. Duologue – Operator
12. The Antlers – Palace
13. Alexis Taylor – Closer To The Elderly

 

Viewing Gum Listening Post #12

Last Viewing Gum Listening Post, I mark the eleventh time round with twelve tracks. Now in its twelfth edition, what do I go ahead and do? Yes, that’s right – ELEVEN TRACKS. What’s up with that? It’s a somewhat moody affair this time round, but from sticky wickets to damn croissants, there’s enough eccentricity and eclecticism to mean that, as ever, there is something for everyone. Listen on, stream below, or click here – the choice, as they say, is yours!

 

 

1. Hookworms – Away / Towards
2. Hot Chip – Dark and Stormy
3. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
4. Doe Eye – Oh My God
5. Rhye – Last Dance
6. CHVRCHES – Recover
7. Beck – Defriended
8. Rokia Traoré – Ka Moun Kè
9. Lilacs & Champagne – Police Story
10. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Line and Length
11. Kanye West – I Am A God