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March 4

Week 721: “Intermezzo” by Giacomo Puccini

No, it’s not a glitch with your device and you’re not having some kind of…

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February 26

Week 720: “Intermezzo Sinfonico” by Pietro Mascagni

Generally speaking, I’m not really into opera. The last time I featured anything from an…

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February 12

Week 718: “Chuva de Verão” by Pedro Mizutani (FloFilz remix)

Pedro Mizutani is a throwback whose brief whispered imagery will take you back to Ipanema.…

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January 1

Week 712: “Happy” by Christian Wannerwall

If your goals for 2024 feel too far off to be attainable, take some inspiration…

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December 18

Week 710: “Papillon” by Johannes Motschmann

If I had to pick a favourite species of butterfly (and I can’t imagine a…

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December 4

Week 708: “Spark” by Niklas Paschburg

The Baltic is a pretty interesting sea. It’s young (for a sea) having only formed…

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November 20

Week 706: “Polegnara e Todora” by The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir

First things first: “The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir” has to be the most bizarre…

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October 2

Week 699: “Nebula” by Fabeats & Very Noise Person

You’ve probably seen an image of a nebula, even if you weren’t aware that it…

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September 11

Week 696: “Loom” by Olafur Arnalds and Bonobo

After a few days travelling and camping in the highlands of Iceland, Bonobo and Ólafur…

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August 21

Week 693: “Doubletalk Gets Through to You” by Xploding Plastix

I am particularly susceptible to getting lost in albums that pile obscure samples on top…

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July 31

Week 690: “All Apologies” by Nirvana (Sinéad O’Connor cover)

There’s a series of photos of Kurt Cobain taken at the 1993 VMAs that are…

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July 24

Week 689: “Crawl Spaces” by Jesse Brown and Andy Salvanos

We had a crawl space in our basement. It was up behind the TV, hidden…

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May 29

Week 681: “Pietre Roventi” by Populous

The world’s most populous… …is And you might be interested to know… Country India It…

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May 1

Week 677: “You Left Me” by Croquet Club

It is 1830. Industrialization is in full swing. Labourers, made redundant by advances in agricultural…

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March 27

Week 672: “Beirut” by Christian Loffler

You know how when a disaster happens it’s all the world talks about for a…

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February 27

Week 668: “Waves” by Carolina Eyck and Eversines

When I saw online that Carolina Eyck was a “German-Sorb composer” I thought, “that’s an…

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December 26

Week 659: “Take On Me (2017 acoustic)” by a-ha

Although it stands as one of the most successful pop songs in the history of…

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November 28

Week 655: “Flamingo Island” by Anthon Jean-Paul

My parents didn’t watch much TV when I was a kid, but when they did…

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October 24

Week 650: “Montania” by Calma Interiore

I got COVID this week, so I spent a lot more time sleeping than finding…

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October 17

Week 649: “Delusional Affection” by Ahren Merz

Salvador Dali was a complicated person. I mean, I know that’s not a groundbreaking statement.…

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