What Are You Listening To

Push 2 Start by Tyla (2025)
(Afrobeats)

Jesse Roper - Access To Infinity, That Girl, Goldeneye, Cherry and We Were Two

From the fourth album by the Canadian (From Victoria, British Columbia) Blues rock singer/songwriter/guitarist, “Access To Infinity” (2018)

Nattsvargr - Night of the Crimson Thirst

Morte Sumus / Dämonenblut - Abendmahl

The Incredible String Band - El Wool Suite, Time, Queen Of Love, Partial Belated Overture, Walking Along With You and Hirem Pawnitof/Fairies’ Hornpipe

From side one of the seventh album by the British (Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland) Psychedelic folk/Folk rock group, “U” (1970).

A double album, the music was part of a multimedia project the band undertook algonside the dance troupe Stone Monkey (including Malcolm le Maistre, who became a member if ISB soon after). (Quoting Wikipedia directly in the next two sentences) The project was described my ISB co-founder Robin Williamson as a “surreal parable in song and dance”, one that was “neither a pageant, a play, dance, theater, nor pantomime, though there were elements of all of those” in the show. For the plot, Williamson explained “the vague notion was, a soul incarnates out of nowhere, lives, and then vanishes again at the other end. Hence the idea ‘U’”. Very hippy-dippy UK Underground-type stuff, but rich in different musical styles and instrumentation.

I’ll follow up with side two later on.

The Incredible String Band - Bridge Song, Invocation, Robot Blues and Cutting The Strings

From side two of of the seventh album by the British (Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland) Psychedelic folk/Folk rock band, “U” (1970)

See above for the deets.

Wolftower - Throne of Nightfall’s Wrath

Sting - If You Love Somebody, Love Is The Seventh Wave, Children’s Crusade, Shadows In The Rain and Consider Me Gone

From the debut solo album by the English (From Wallsend, Tyne and Wear) musician (and ex-member of the Police), “Dream Of The Blue Turtles” (1985)

Burying Place - In The Light Of Burning Churches

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Sabhankra - Heathens Hate (2025)

(Black Metal)

Black metal from Turkey thanks James Horsley for the discovery

Putrid Defecation - Airborn Backdoor Evacuation (2025)

(Slam Metal)

Taste and Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter

DragonForce - Fallen World, Cry Thunder, Give Me The Night, Die By The Sword and Last Man Stands

From the fifth album by the British (From London) Power/Speed metal band, “The Power Within” (2012)

Crucifixion Bell - Eternal Grip Of The Nocturnal Empire

Kiss - Thou Shalt Not

Spotify Discover Weekley

Coffee by Miguel (2015)
(R&B)

Paul McCartney - The World Tonight, If You Wanna, Somedays, Calico Skies, Flaming Pie, Heaven On A Sunday and Really Love You.

From the English (From Liverpool) singer/songwriter/musician/ex-Beatle’s tenth solo album, “Flaming Pie” (1997).
Coming off the heels of The Beatles’ Anthology project, this amazing album was released with an exciting cast of characters, both family and friends of Paul. These include his late wife Linda McCartney on backing vocals, his son James on guitar, his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr on drums, ELO’s Jeff Lynne on guitar and keyboards, George Martin on orchestral arrangements and a collaboration with Steve Miller (of the titular Steve Miller Band) on the song “Used To Be Bad”. This album is also the last to feature the aforementioned Linda, who passed away from breast cancer a year after the album’s release. Elsewhere on the album, Paul
dedicated the song “Little Willow” to Ringo’s ex-wife Maureen, who passed away in 1994.

Fun fact (Taken from Wikipedia): The title Flaming Pie (also given to one of the album’s songs) is a reference to an anecdote that John Lennon told in a humorous story published in magazine Mersey Beat in 1961 about the origin of the Beatles’ name: “It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘from this day on you are Beatles with an A.’”