Is Labour Really That Bad?

I don’t really talk about politics on here, but I’ve been quite frustrated recently with the dark path we seem to be going down in this country. Especially the vitriol directed at Labour and Kier Starmer.

I think Starmer has all the charisma of a dead fish, but I do think he’s unfairly treated by a media largely owned by billionaire’s. I saw the post below on Facebook and it’s about everything Labour has done so far. I think it’s worth re-sharing because I’m a bit fed up of people saying Labour are doing nothing. I don’t think it’s necessarily a failure of Labour to shout about these achievements, I think the media isn’t interested in talking about the good things they do and would rather constantly attack them. I also think a lot of people just don’t engage enough with politics to know what’s going on and just see a few headlines or soundbites on the news.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Labour are perfect by any means and they’ve made some stupid decisions that have riled millions up. Moreover, I think they should tax corporations and the rich more. But how anyone can think Reform is the answer is beyond me. 

While I get people are frustrated with politics and how daily life has got harder, if you’re working class and think Reform has your best interests at heart, I think you’re going to be very disappointed if they ever run this country. How can people support a party that wants to remove our human rights? That voted against more protections for women?

Reform don’t support much of what Labour has done in 2 years, and they care little about anything other than lining their pockets and serving their rich mates. The media focuses on them all the time because many of our media organisations are owned by billionaire’s who want a society that benefits the rich, not us average working class folks. I really wish people would start seeing this.

Moreover, Reform focus on the ‘stop the boats’ issue like fixing that is going to magically fix everything wrong in this country. The gap between the rich and poor is wider than ever, and I can tell you now that it’s not some guy from Africa who is causing this. While obviously something needs to be done about illegal immigration, why do people think the guy who caused all this is the one to fix it?

Illegal immigration rose sharply after we left the EU. Leaving the EU meant the UK left the Dublin regulation, preventing the automatic return of asylum seekers who crossed through the EU. Additionally, the UK lost access to the Eurodac database, which matched fingerprints of asylum seekers, making it harder to track applicants. 

So, if you’re looking for someone to blame about the boats, you only need to look at Farage. Don’t fall for a grifter who is laughing all the way to the bank. I just think a lot of people will regret it if they’ve voted Reform at the next general election and they get control of the government. I think it would be voting against your own interests.

Anyway, here’s the post I saw on Facebook. I’ve added links to source each statement.

For all those who say Starmer’s Labour aren’t left wing, don’t do anything for the working man, let’s look at some of their actions:

All this is either achieved or on track in the first 2 years of Labour being in government.

Starmer isn’t perfect by any means (especially with the whole Mandelson affair), but I feel like a lot of people base someone’s ability to govern on their personality rather than them quietly working away at getting things done. I remember people saying they voted for Boris Johnson because he was ‘funny’, like that has any relevance to being able to improve our country. Also, look how that shit show turned out.

Politics is better for us all when it’s boring. Personality politics doesn’t get anything done other than giving the media more eyeballs and the type of clickbait rubbish that infests any social media platform today. You could have the most charismatic PM ever, but if they’re going nothing to make your life better then what’s the point? Starmer and his nasally voice might be an easy target for Saturday Night Live UK every week, but does his lack of charisma make him the worst PM ever if he’s achieving the goals that Labour’s manifesto laid out at the last general election?

All this said, I still think Starmer probably has to go. His position has become untenable, and I can’t see a way back from being hated by millions of people, no matter how much good Labour is doing. I just hope Labour don’t end up like the Tory’s who fell apart into constant in-fighting and when it felt like they were changing their leader every 5 minutes. It just causes chaos and leads to people disliking government more than ever.

2024: My Year Of Listening To 368 Albums

I started writing this post in January. It’s now July. So, yeah, either I’ve got a serious procrastination problem or I just kept finding new albums to obsess over. Probably both.

This was supposed to be a neat little January wrap-up. A quick “here’s all the albums I listened to last year” job. But somewhere between album #5 and album #367, I realised I’d built myself a labyrinth of guitar solos, synth swells, and emotionally devastating lyrics I had to reflect on.

I’ve been tracking the albums I listened to in yearly documents for a good few years now. It was originally done in Evernote, but since that service became unusable unless you fork out a tidy sum, I’ve turned to just dumping them into Google Docs instead. Usually I don’t set a target and just see how many albums I can fit in around my life. But, in 2024, I was a few dozen albums down just a couple of months in and I started to wonder if I could listen to 366 albums over the year, one for every day of the year (as 2024 was a leap year).

This turned into a year-long sonic adventure that spanned pop-punk nostalgia, jazz-funk detours, Latin grooves, and a suspicious amount of Jimmy Eat World. Seriously, I think they’ve taken out a mortgage in my brain at this point. I got to September and realised I was falling behind, so I had stints of the year when I blazed through 20 albums in a week. It helps that I have the kind of job where I can stick my AirPods in for 8 hours a day.

There were awesome surprises (hello, Poppy’s Negative Spaces), a few forgettable duds (lookin’ at you, new Green Day), and moments where an old classic smacked me in the soul like it was brand new (I see you, Pet Sounds, and please don’t judge me for never having listened to it until now). Some albums became instant favourites, while others made me question how I made it this far in life without ever hearing them.

Also, can we talk about how much new music came out in 2024? It’s like every artist on Earth collectively decided, “This is the year Tom must never rest.” If it’s new to that year, I’ve slapped ‘2024’ in brackets next to it so you know that it was a new release.

By the way, if one more person says “there isn’t any good music released these days” I will smack you in the face with the hundreds of Spotify playlists, Reddit threads, blogs, niche radio stations and more places I’ve checked out to prove music is as good as ever – if not even better! There’s good shit coming out every week, you just have to go beyond the algorithms and seek it out. That said, I also think Spotify’s algorithms have done a good job of introducing new stuff to me too. You’re not branching out and listening to different things if your algorithms keep throwing the same old stuff at you.

Could you say that listening to so many albums in a single year means I don’t really engage with them on a deep level? Sure, but I never said I know all these albums inside out. It’s definitely the case that I do for some of the albums on this list, as I’ve listened to them before and they’re on there because they’re favourite albums that I often return to. Some of the albums were one and done and I’ll probably never check them out again, but others will become favourites and, even though I didn’t make a note of this, I sometimes listened to an album that was new to me a few times over the course of the year.

My favourite album of 2024 is a toss up between Prelude to Ecstasy by The Last Dinner Party and From Zero by Linkin Park. If you’re going off the play count, The Last Dinner Party wins as I’ve got 164 scrobbles on Last.fm against 71 scrobbles for Linkin Park. But Linkin Park’s album wasn’t released until 15 November, so it’s not that surprising that the former got more plays. Both are fantastic albums; with Prelude to Ecstasy being one of the best debut albums I’ve heard in a while, and From Zero a welcome return for a legendary band that now has a new lead singer.

Anyway, I’ve finally wrangled all 368(!) albums into one place. Below, you’ll find the full list, Every record I gave a spin in 2024, with my very official, incredibly scientific one-word(ish) reviews. Oh, and those in bold = first time I’ve listened all the way through (as far as I’m aware). I can’t say I remember every album I’ve ever listened to, so there’s the possibility that I’ve given it a listen and just forgotten, although that may mean the album wasn’t very memorable to begin with.

Oh, and one more thing before the list. I track and rate every album I listen to over on my Rate Your Music Profile. Feel free to add me on there if you have an account.

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Obsessively Scrobbling

I’m rapidly approaching 200,000 scrobbles on Last.fm. It’s currently 199,858, which will be even higher by the time I finish writing this, as I’m currently listening to music (when am I not?). That will be 200,000 scrobbles since 23 July 2005, which is a hell of a lot of music.

I think I’m going to write something about how my music taste has evolved since my teenage years. When I opened my Last.fm account in July 2005, I was currently enjoying some time off from education while I prepared to go to university in September of that year. I was a floppy haired spotty 18-year-old, who’s taste in music largely consisted of punk pop and people screaming in my ears at a volume that 37-year-old me be horrified at.

While I still enjoy a lot of that stuff, I’ve branched out to listening to pretty much anything. My quest to constantly listen to new music and new genres borders on the obsessive, but there’s so much music out there that I want to hear that I’m probably going to spend the rest of my life doing it.

I expect I’ll hit 200,000 by Friday at the latest. I’m having to keep a close eye on it as I don’t want my 200,000th scrobble to be something completely random. But, at the same time, maybe it should be completely random as that’s more natural. Or I could just stick on my most played song, which is currently The Middle by Jimmy Eat World (still an absolute banger of a song).

If you’re not on Last.fm and you listen to a lot of music, then what are you waiting for? We need to keep that site alive, so I’ll always recommend that you use it. I successfully convinced my wife, although the fact that it’s tracking the Disney baby lullabies that Alexa plays for our youngest at night isn’t exactly a great reflection of her taste in music. I’m sure she’d tell you it should be wall-to-wall Busted instead. I’ll refrain from commenting about whether that’s any better!

Songs of the Week #3 (Week of 7 August 2023)

Welcome to the triumphant return of Songs of the Week! I realised that it lasted two weeks before it looked like I packed it in, but I had a good reason to put it on hiatus as my daughter ended up in hospital for just under two weeks. I’ve been meaning to write about it here, but I can’t bring myself to put what happened into anything coherent right now. 

Having to take a break from my blog doesn’t mean that I stopped listening to music. Music is what I turn to when times are tough, and while I didn’t listen to anywhere near as much music as I normally would, I would still stick headphones in my ears when I got chance, mostly when I was walking back to my accommodation from the hospital.  

So, the tracks in this week’s playlist don’t just come from the last week. Instead, I’ve thrown in some of my most listened to, as well as some great new discoveries, to create a bumper playlist of 60 songs. 

Highlights include the latest release from Olivia Rodrigo in ages, ‘Vampire’, although she’s since released ‘bad idea right?’. One of my rules with these playlists is that I only include one track per artist a week, so ‘Vampire’ makes it in ahead of her new song as I think it’s a better song. 

I’m really loving Taking Back Sunday’s new song ‘The One’. It’s quite different to their older stuff, but, like me, the band has matured and so has their sound. It’s great to see bands that were a big part of my youth still going strong, so I’m looking forward to seeing what else Taking Back Sunday has in store. 

Three bands to feature this week that seemingly came out of nowhere (although I’m wrong, of course, as this blog post points out about Picture Parlour and laments people using the term ‘industry plants’, a term that has been levelled at two of the bands I’m about to mention here) are FIZZ, with the infectious as fuck ‘High in Brighton’, the apparent ‘next Wet Leg’ The Last Dinner Party, with ‘Sinner’, and the aforementioned Picture Parlour with ‘Norwegian Wood’. The last one is my favourite, with raw, scratchy vocals that transport you straight into a rocky dive bar and it reminds me a bit of Courtney Love’s Hole. I’m really looking forward to seeing what all three bands do next.  

Speaking of rocky as fuck songs, be sure to check out ‘HAMMS IN A GLASS’ by Winona Fighter. Other highlights include ‘Spiral City’ by CARR, new track ‘Drag Me Down’ by Loveless (which I’ve recently really got into, listening to both of their albums recently), ‘Every Night’ by Flor (another band whose albums I’ve been devouring, but this track is an absolute banger!), and ‘Lights Out’ by the brilliantly named Teen Jesus and The Jean Teasers. 

That’s it for this week. Check out the full playlist below and, as always, you can check this month’s ongoing playlist by clicking here. I’m pretty sure the schedule will be back to normal next time, so have a great music-filled week until then! 

Want me to check out your music for possible inclusion in one of my weekly playlists? Please email me at tmulrooney AT gmail DOT com. Please include a Spotify link to your track. 

  1. Lost Cause – Jules Paymer
  2. Vampire – Olivia Rodrigo
  3. Sour – Echosmith
  4. High In Brighton – FIZZ
  5. The Cheaters guide To The Galaxy – Warwick Smith
  6. The One – Taking Back Sunday
  7. Give Me My Halo – YONAKA
  8. Summer of Luv (feat. Unknown Mortal Orchestra) – Portugal. The Man, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  9. St. Girlfriend – Games We Play
  10. Dummy – The Regrettes
  11. Bad Actors – The Menzingers
  12. The Time Of Year Always – Crawlers
  13. Firestarter – SUMR, Siamese
  14. Like an Animal – Piqued Jacks
  15. Rattlesnake Heartbreak – Miniature Tigers
  16. DESIRE – NOISY
  17. Push It Down – L Devine
  18. On My Way – Dazy
  19. Unwritten – Settle Your Scores
  20. Indecent – Maggie Miles
  21. Fuck Around Phase – Housewife
  22. Lights Out – Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
  23. The Implication – Parrotfish
  24. $wing – FEVER 333
  25. BOOM – Cassyette
  26. Tomorrow Is Closed – Nothing But Thieves
  27. delirious – swim school
  28. Heaven Without You – KID BRUNSWICK
  29. Honda Civic – Lauran Hibberd
  30. I Gotta Feeling – STONE
  31. Electric Touch (feat. Fall Out Boy) (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy
  32. Think of Us Kissing – Hamish Hawk
  33. Stand Anthem – Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  34. Can You Get To That – Funkadelic
  35. Bloomsday – Samantha Crain
  36. Just Like Heaven – Hannah Peel
  37. Setting Sun – Howling Bells
  38. Clemency – Emma Pollock
  39. Norwegian Wood – Picture Parlour
  40. In My Head – NewDad
  41. Weekend – Body Type
  42. What’s The Point In Life – Coach Party
  43. HAMMS IN A GLASS – Winona Fighter
  44. Consciousness – JonoJono
  45. Rather B Dead – Middle Part
  46. Who’s Laughing Now – DURRY
  47. Spiral City – CARR
  48. Get Up Kid – Thirty Seconds To Mars
  49. Do You Wanna Talk – Wild Horse
  50. I Know I Know – Vistas
  51. Remember All The Girls – The Sherlocks
  52. Woman Of The Year – The View
  53. Strawberry Woman – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
  54. Every Night – flor
  55. Sinner – The Last Dinner Party
  56. Classics – Moon Taxi
  57. How Does It Feel – Tom Grennan
  58. Might Love Myself – Beartooth
  59. Modern Day – BLOXX
  60. Drag Me Down – Loveless

Songs of the Week #2 (Week of 12 June 2023)

This week I’ve mostly been on the hunt for artists that I’ve never listened to. This is one of the reasons I love the stat tracking music website last.fm (check out my profile here) as I can instantly look-up the artist and see if I’ve ever listened to them before. While I can’t guarantee I’ve never heard them while out in public or at a party, I can assume that most of the artists I’ve listened to are included in my last.fm profile.

I’ve been tracking what I’ve been listening to on there since 2005, and I’ve it says I’ve listened to over 16,600 artists so far. But that’s barely scratched the surface of how much music there is in the world (just look at the profile for BBC Radio 6, who is currently clocking in at over 88,000 artists). Obviously, I’ll always have my favourite musical artists that I’ll stick on when I don’t feel like hearing anything new, but I also don’t want to spend my life stuck in the same musical rut. I like to branch out and try things from all sorts of genres, so that’s why you may see a random mix of genres in every weekly playlist.

Yeah, you could say I’m a little obsessive in hunting down new music, but I’m not one to sit still when it comes to music. One day I hope to publish a post about all the ways I find new music, as there’s far more ways to discover music then you may think. With that in mind, this week I’ve mostly been doing one of the things I do to find new music, and that’s through listening to Spotify’s Fresh Finds playlists.

Fresh Finds is a Spotify brand that seeks to highlight new music from independent artists. Spotify’s thousands of editors and music experts scour blogs, social media, and go through submissions they receive, and some of them will end up on a Fresh Finds playlist. There’s a main Fresh Finds playlist that is a mix of genres, and then there’s sub-playlists like Fresh Finds Pop, Fresh Finds Indie, Fresh Finds Rock etc. The main playlist is completely refreshed every Wednesday, whereas the sub-playlists get new songs added every Wednesday, but the older ones may stick around for a month or two.

Fresh Finds is a great way to find new talent that may only have a few hundred listeners through Spotify, if that, and I’ve found some absolute gems through this initiative in the past. I’ve included quite a few on this week’s playlist, and expect more to appear on playlists in future weeks.

In addition to Fresh Finds and my regular Spotify listening, I’ve also been trying out some random artists on the likes of Bandcamp and Soundcloud. There’s a great profile on Soundcloud that I follow from a blog called Fresh On The Net. This is run by Tom Robinson, who has a show on BBC Radio 6. Each week, artists can submit their songs to The Listening Post. These are then listened to by Tom and the team, as well as anyone else who visits the blog, and voted on to create a top ten each week. The songs may end up on BBC Radio 6 too, but there’s no guarantee.

One of the new albums I checked out this week was Jessie Ware’s latest release, That! Feels Good!. I’ve only included the title track on the playlist, but the whole album is well worth listening to. It’s a catchy, pop album filled with wall-to-wall bangers.

Finally, speaking of BBC Radio 6, on Friday I was listening to the 10 June 2023 episode of The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Sounds. A bit of funky music is the perfect way to get that Friday feeling. So, there are a few songs from the show included on the playlist too.

Anyway, enjoy the playlist. I’ll be back with more picks next Sunday! Don’t forget, you can check out my June 2023 playlist to hear everything (at least everything that’s available on Spotify) that I’ve been loving this month.

NOTE ON LAST.FM: I mainly track my music (known as ‘scrobbling’) through last.fm’s connection to Spotify. But when I’m listening to other stuff through my laptop, such as the radio or websites like Bandcamp, I use a Chrome extension called Web Scrobbler. It doesn’t work with every website that plays music, but there are a good few hundred supported. If I hear a song in other places, I’ll sometimes use Shazam on my phone to find out what it is, which then gets automatically added to a Spotify playlist. I may then manually add it to last.fm with Open Scrobbler. But I’m not obsessive about doing that, as adding each song manually would suck up a lot of time.

  1. Off The 45 – Jo Hill
  2. His Sofa – Nieve Ella
  3. STFU – TTRRUUCES
  4. Real Life – Lanterns on the Lake
  5. Dream Girl – Baby Queen
  6. Devotion – The Pink Spiders
  7. Save Rock And Roll – Fall Out Boy, Elton John
  8. Run, Run, Run – McKinley Dixon
  9. Out In The Streets – The Bug Club
  10. Money Talks – Hallan
  11. Undo the Blue – Iraina Mancini
  12. If You Don’t Want My Love – Jalen Ngonda
  13. Haunted – Spanish Love Songs
  14. Sorry – Konyikeh
  15. Cherry – MINOE
  16. Darlin’ – Flour
  17. Analogue – Folk Bitch Trio
  18. Cheddar – petie
  19. Mommy Issues – Jules Paymer
  20. Lovely Dream – Ghost King
  21. Caroline – Banfi
  22. I’ve Loved You For So Long – The Aces
  23. Crying On The Subway – Annie Tracy
  24. Daydream in Tokyo – Lucy Gaffney
  25. 23 – Wallice
  26. Afterthought – La Rhonza
  27. That! Feels Good! – Jessie Ware
  28. Walls – The Satellite Station
  29. Cool Down My Hearts – Ella Thompson
  30. There Is A God – The Staple Singers

Songs of the Week #1 (Week of 5 June 2023)

One of my favourite things to do is to listen to music. I have it on all the time; whether I’m at work, washing the dishes, or taking a walk. I’m in a fortunate position that I have a job that allows me to listen to music all day. I think I’d be lost without this benefit, as sticking on some good tunes really helps me focus and get the best out of my day. I’m even listening to music as I write this, with Inhaler – Just to Keep You Satisfied currently blaring out of my speakers.

I also love writing, but it’s obvious from the last post being months ago that I’ve not been doing much of that lately. So, in an effort to both start writing more and share my passion for music, I’m going to start a new series in which I present my songs of the week.

I can’t promise it will be long. Sometimes it may just be a short track list and a few comments, while other times I may delve more into why I love the songs I chose. I’m going to try and pick at least 10 tracks that I loved that week. Sometimes there may be loads, sometimes there may only be a few (I’ve managed 25 this week). It really depends on how much music I’ve listened to that week. Although, at the rate I go through tracks, it will take some extenuating circumstances for me to not have enough choices that week.

The songs I pick won’t necessarily have been released that week, or even recently, although I’ll try and pick at least a few new tracks. With music streaming services apparently having over 100,000 tracks added every day (and it’s probably more now that AI generated music is flooding these services), it’s impossible to keep up. Even my Release Radar, a playlist that Spotify generates every Friday that includes new tracks from artists I follow and may be interested in, bangs out 200 tracks a week, and I can never get through it. But this is clearly a first world problem. As Jake Shears says in one of my picks this week, ‘there can never be too much music for me’.

No, the songs I pick will be a mixture of new and stuff that I’ve simply been really enjoying that week.

I’ll add these songs to a new Spotify playlist each week, which I’ll embed in every post. So, you can easily check out how great or terrible you think my taste is.

Anyway, enough blabbing, what have I picked this week?

I’m not going to talk about everything, as we’ll be here all day, but I’m going to pick out some highlights.

First up is ‘Not Strong Enough’ by the supergroup boygenius (made up Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus). The whole album (ironically called ‘the record’) is a shoe-in to be on my list of best albums released in 2023, but ‘Not Strong Enough’ is my favourite track on the album, as it’s simply sublime. The best thing about it is that all three singers have sections they sing on the song, and each sound unique but still manage to meld together perfectly to create one of the best tracks of 2023.

Speaking of new albums, May 26 wasn’t just a great day because it happens to be my birthday, but also because Arlo Parks released her new album ‘My Soft Machine’. The whole album is fantastic, but ‘Devotion’ is my pick from it. I recently started listening to Arlo Parks, thanks to Spotify’s all-knowing algorithm, and her new album shows me I made an excellent choice to hit ‘play’.

Blur released their first new single since 2015, unleashing The Narcissist, which is the first single off a forthcoming album that the band recorded in secret. I must admit that, beyond the hits that we all know, I’m not overly familiar with Blur’s discography, so I’m finding it hard to compare to older stuff. But it’s a good tune, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they do on the new album.

Bring me the Horizon released an absolute banger a few weeks back. ‘LosT’ is inspired by the emo genre, with the band saying that My Chemical Romance influenced the song. It was accompanied by an absolutely mad, but brilliant, music video. Naysayers will bemoan the fact that it sounds nothing like BMTH’s early sound, but bands evolve and BMTH have been experimenting with new sounds for ages now. I’m of the opinion that they’ve never been better than they are now, and I’m really excited for what the next album will be, especially if it includes more bangers like ‘LosT’.

If you’d told my younger self that I’d be loving the likes of Harry Styles and Jonas Brothers songs, I probably would have laughed. But these two tunes – Music For a Sushi Restaurant and Waffle House – are ear worms, and Harry Styles is putting out some fantastic music. I’m far past the point of caring about genre or how music snobs perceive a certain artist. All that matters is that I enjoy listening to it.

Probably the biggest outlier on this list is The Salmon Dance by The Chemical Brothers. I added this because it’s a) weird as hell and b) a banger. I first heard it a few weeks back on BBC Radio 6 (man, if you ever want to know how out of touch you are with music beyond the charts, listen to an hour of that station) when it was chosen as one of the Teatime Anthem’s. For some reason, I instantly fell in love with it and proceeded to play it to death over the following few days.

Finally, I’m still listening to Enter Shikari’s latest album, A Kiss for the Whole World x, quite a lot, and the title track remains one of my faves. The album got to UK number 1, a first for the band, and I’m implore you to check it out if you haven’t already. I do still prefer their previous effort, but I listened to that non-stop, so it’s going to be hard to top it.

Here’s the full list of my picks this week, followed by a Spotify embed so you can easily check it out.

  1. Not Strong Enough – boygenius
  2. So Sorry – Lola Young
  3. Labour – Paris Paloma
  4. Devotion – Arlo Parks
  5. The Narcissist – Blur
  6. Nothing Matters – The Last Dinner Party
  7. LosT – Bring Me The Horizon
  8. Music For a Sushi Restaurant- Harry Styles
  9. BLOW OUT MY CANDLE – Betty Who
  10. The Salmon Dance – The Chemical Brothers
  11. I’m sorry – lovelytheband, blackbear
  12. Too Much Music – Jake Shears
  13. How Does It Feel – Tom Grennan
  14. Waffle House – Jonas Brothers
  15. Tattoo – Loreen
  16. A Kiss for the Whole World x – Enter Shikari
  17. Mountain – Sam Ryder
  18. Bitter – Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
  19. After Hours – Aly & AJ
  20. People pleaser – Cat Burns
  21. Mountains at Midnight – Royal Blood
  22. Overcome – Nothing But Thieves
  23. Under You – Foo Fighters
  24. Double Life – Cold War Kids
  25. Kicking Up A Fuss – BC Camplight
Songs of the Week Playlist #1 – Week of 5 May 2023

If you want to see what I’m listening to throughout the month, I maintain monthly playlists that I add my favourite tracks to as I listen. Here’s the playlist for June 2023.