Playlist 2019
Music posted on furtho.tumblr.com during 2019:
23 Skidoo’s Just Like Everybody, biting post-punk collage
A Certain Smile’s Original Replacement, sweet janglepop balladry
Adrianne Lenker’s Abysskiss, wistful folk sadness
Ai Yamamoto’s Going Home (Excerpt), super-quiet ambient minimalism
Altered Images’ See Those Eyes, bittersweet pop perfection
Al Usher’s Lullaby For Robert (Bogdan Irkük remix), lovely downtempo house re-imagining
Ampersand’s I’m Still Waiting, homemade indie tune
Anemone’s Sunshine (Back To The Start), kitchen disco-friendly pop
Anne Clark’s Our Darkness, lost classic proto-technopop from 1984
Aphex Twin’s T69 Collapse, twisting, twitching, frantic electronics
Asilomar’s Shimmer And Faded, spacious-but-warm Californian dreampop
Aster More’s Bought It, sweetly fuzzy indiepop
Asuna’s Sea Above, Chubby Plane, Sky Below, blissed out longform drone
Beatnik Filmstars’ Apathetic English Swine, trashy Bristolian garage rock ‘n’ roll
Ben Chatwin’s Coruscate, oddly delirious ambient
Bernard Grancher’s Fluxion Des Mollesses, homemade electropop with echoes of acidity
Biff Bang Pow!’s Someone To Share My Life With, quietly impassioned cover of TV Personalities gem
Black Channels’ Two Knocks For Yes, longform collage on suburban hauntings
Blue Tomorrows’ Sound Of Moving, echoing, downtempo dreampop
Body Type’s Palms, energetic back-and-forth indie tune
Brambles’ Salt Photographs, quietly exhilarating modern classical
Brian’s Turn Your Lights On, big ecstatic I’m-in-love indie
Broadcast’s Before We Begin, glorious space age girl group pop
Buzzcocks’ Promises, lo-fi video for punk pop gem
Celer’s Rains Lit By Neon, drifting ambient drone
Chris Child & Micah Frank’s Debris Of The Days, dusty ambient folk chimes
Cloud Babies’ Dear Moon, too-fragile ballad from Kyoto duo
Corpse Factory’s Party Girl, “lo-fi mountain gloom rock from Thomas, West Virginia”
Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Tutti (edit), pulsing, joyful electronics
Cristina Quesada’s Hero, super-cute classic indie discopop
Darren Harper’s Slow Reveal, sweetly understated ambient
David R Edwards’ A Novel For Lazy Readers - An Antidote To The Headache Of BBC Radio 4, bleakly comic spoken word
Dayflower’s Sweet Georgia Gazes, Lightning Seeds-style indie jangle
Death Cab For Cutie’s Northern Lights, appropriately big-skied indie
Dedekind Cut’s The Crossing Guard, foggy, distant ambient drone
Depeche Mode’s A Pain That I’m Used To (Jacques Lu Cont remix), gripping, propulsive dance mix
DJ Downfall’s To Bring You Joy, heartbreaking vocodered robotpop
Edgar Froese’s Epsilon Of Malaysian Pale, classic prog ambient
Edward Artemyev’s Dedication To Andrei Tarkovsky, expansive late Soviet-era modern classical soundtrack
Emily A Sprague’s Piano One, quietly glitchy minimal piano
Emmanuel Witzthum’s Book Of Shadows, thoughtful modern classical
epic45′s Kaleidoscope Days, haunting, woozing post-rock dreamscape
Flaüta’s Pensar Mucho, lo-fi bedroom indie from provincial Argentina
Flying Fish Cove’s Sleight Of Hand, ramshackle but uplifting guitar pop
For Against’s Don’t Do Me Any Favors, catchily confident indie jangle
For Tracy Hyde’s 櫻の園, sweet-voiced shoegaze pop
Franziska Lantz’s Run For It, experimental minimal techno
Gabe Knox’s Lo Spettro, languid electronic pastoralism
Gavin Bryars with Philip Jeck & Alter Ego’s The Sinking Of The Titanic (1969-), spine-tingling long-form modern classical
Geotic’s Actually Smiling, blissful warm house
Grand Veymont’s session for La Souterraine, Radio Campus, Paris, stunning live longform pastoral drone
György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes, live avant garde performance - great for fans of clicking noises
Harae Nagoshi’s Case1, glitchy piano pastoralism
Hatchie’s Sure, big open indie tune
Hazell Dean’s Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go) 12″, thrilling 80s hi-NRG pop
Heartsease’s Blurs, drifting ambient sadness
Help Stamp Out Loneliness’ Pacific Trash Vortex, uptempo hooky indie with charismatic vocal
Hood’s Houses Tilting Towards The Sea, languid post-rock pastoralism
International Teachers Of Pop’s After Dark, anthemic, booty-shakin’ electropop
Jane Weaver’s Slow Motion (Loops Variation), dreamily melancholy synthpop
Jonteknik feat Malte Steiner’s Fernsehturm (iEuropean remix), glistening electro modernism
Kasper Marott’s Keflavik, beautifully, er, constructed house
Kenji Endo’s Curry Rice, charming snapshot of Japan’s underground folk boom of the late 60s and early 70s
Kevin Drumm’s A Puddle On The Floor, spine-tingling minimal drone
Kirill Mazhai’s Love Theme, hazily warm ambient drone
Komputer’s Skyskrapers, downtempo bleep-pop balladry
Kraftwerk’s Antenna, rare video of the electronic classic from 1975
La Boum Fatale’s Walls (Instrumental), warmly glitched-up technopop
Laveda’s Dream. Sleep, distant echoing dreampop
Listening Center’s Meridian, brisk synthpop experimentalism
Lives Of Angels’ Imperial Motors, lost classic of catchy post-punk drum machine pop
Lowfish’s Live In San Francisco, forty minutes of gorgeous funky electro
Lunar Vacation’s Blue Honey, sweet and fragile indie
Magazine’s The Light Pours Out Of Me, captivatingly gloomy post-punk
Malish Kamu’s Birds, ethereal minimalism from south-western Russia
Marble Index’s Love Talking To Boys, 1999 take on synth-driven post-punk
Marie Davidson’s Work It, funky as fuck minimal technopop
Martha & The Muffins’ Echo Beach, irresistible new wave classic
Martial Canterel’s You Today, frantically catchy minimal synth
Mary Jane Leach’s Bruckstück, breathtaking modern choral
Memoryhouse’s The Kids Were Wrong, catchily polished indie
Meter Bridge’s It Was Nothing (Rodney Cromwell remix), blistering disco’d up electropop remix
Mick Trouble’s Shut Your Bleeding Gob You Git, bracingly ramshackle punk pop
Mode Citizen’s Sex & Steel (The Dark Robot remix), pounding sequenced electro remix
Moving Panoramas’ Baby Blues, exhilarating piece of kind of Alvvays-esque indie
My Robot Friend’s Sex Machine, hopeful in lyrical theme, bleepy minimal wave in terms of sonic stylings
Naps’ Bad Vibrations, exciting indiepop from much-missed (by me) Florida outfit
Naw’s Still Breathing, looping electronic experimentalism
Night Hikes’ Avila, “you’re the only one who ever made my coffee right...”
Night Sports’ Substance, joyful disco-y synthpop
Nonconnah’s Driving Away For The Last Time Without Looking Back, determinedly lo-fi folk drone
Nov3l’s To Whom It May Concern, infectious modern post-punk jangle
Okonomiyaki Labs’ Blue Toast (edit), mischievous experimental bleepery by Japan-based former Pale Saint
Palais Schaumburg’s Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt, Neue Deutsche Welle post-punk angularity
Part Timer’s Nothing Changes, restrained modern classical vignette
Patrik Fitzgerald’s Tonight, acoustic punk poetry from back in the day
Pelopincho’s Puchos, exuberant two-chord indie from Argentina
Petrichor’s Petrichor Ten, charming minimal electronic sketch
Pet Shop Boys feat Example’s Thursday, scintillating hooky electropop
Piano Magic’s Dark Secrets Looking For Light, bleak post-rock balladry, as you may have inferred
Remington Super 60′s The Highway Again, luscious laidback jangle
Rico Loverde’s He’s A Wiardo, oddly funky electro experimentalism
Riton & Kah-Lo’s Fake ID, rough-around-the-edges funky house
Robert Rental & The Normal’s Live At West Runton Pavilion, incendiary live experimentalism from the lo-fi synth pioneers
Robjn’s Suburban Temple/Feel This Way (Corwood Manual remix), hauntological glitchpop, complete with captivating video
Rose Elinor Dougall’s Fallen Over, pleasingly brief loved-up pop
Roxy Girls’ Interjections, energetically catchy punk pop
Ruby Jaunt’s Jeune, haunting electronic indie
St Etienne’s Carnt Sleep, lovesickness + insomnia = popdub heaven
Saariselka’s Void, charming blend of ambient and folk Americana
Sector One’s Can Machines Be Sad?, delirious post-Kraftwerk synthpop
Six Microphones’ Overture & Part 1, minimal ambient experimentation
Slow Pulp’s New Media, melodic post-punk twang
Sobs’ Girl, tuneful indie jangle from Singapore
Spread Eagle’s Palatine Hill, distant, foggy Glaswegian indie
Stan Tracey Quartet’s Starless And Bible Black, extraordinary jazz tune inspired by Under Milk Wood
Steve Reich’s Come Out, ground-breaking tape loop experimentation
Sugar World’s Sad In Heaven, perfect rough-and-ready indie jangle
Surf Friends’ Outdoors, relentlessly upbeat guitar pop
Suicide’s Touch Me, can’t-break-the-spell synthpunk hypnotism
Susumu Yokota’s Grass, Tree & Stone, hypnotic cut-and-paste ambient by the late, great Yokota
Telefon Tel Aviv’s The Birds, hypnotic electronic glitch rock
Teleman’s Rivers In The Dark, winning melodicism from under-rated popsters
The Adverts’ The Great British Mistake, lost gem by punk legends
The Autumn Teen Sound’s Telegraph, Casiocore cover of OMD hit
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness’ Close The Doors, laidback indie jangle
The Flirts’ Passion, trashy disco from early 80s New York
The Juan Maclean’s What Do You Feel Free About? (Man Power remix), driving techno-disco to get your party started
The Leaf Library’s Hissing Waves, lovely pastoral post-rock
The Screamers’ 122 Hours Of Fear (live at the Target), thrilling late 70s synthpunk
The Silicon Scientist’s Sinister Street, notably un-sinister vocoder-driven synthpop
The Slits’ Typical Girls, spiky post-punk pop
The Twin Roots’ Know Love, warm and soothing reggae deliciousness
The Wannadies’ You And Me Song, quiet-loud-quiet-loud indie classic
Thistle Group’s High, bittersweet solo tape loop experimentalism from New Zealand
Tiny Magnetic Pets ft Wolfgang Flür’s Radio On (Alice Hubble remix), dreamy electronics topped off with spoken word by ex-Kraftwerk legend
Tremelo Ghosts’ Paradise, sweetly lo-fi indie folk
Tvärtom’s Iltariennot, melancholy Finnish indie jangle
Utro’s Где-то там, hypnotic indie drone from Motorama spin-off act
VDOF’s Zooming In I Can Clearly See Your Heart Has Got Aliasing Issues, confident minimal electronic debut
Viktor Timofeev & Simon Werner’s Sphynx Cats Nuzzle, spookily experimental spoken word
Walt Thisney’s Shadows, delightful modern classical sketch
Will Burns & Hannah Peel’s Moth Book, charming blend of electronics and spoken word
William Doyle’s Millersdale, wide-eyed ballad inspired by the housing estates of England
Window Magic’s From Here Flows What You Call Time, pastoral found sound collage
Yazoo’s Midnight, killer-sweet electropop ballad
Yoshio Machida’s Synthi #04, whistling, gurgling, oddly pastoral electronic experimentalism
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The playlist for 2018 is here. The playlist for 2017 is here. The playlist for 2016 is here. The playlist for 2015 is here. The playlist for 2014 is here. The playlist for 2013 is here.
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