New music including Charli XCX, Soccer Mommy, Bar Italia and Disclosure on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

West of The Fields

I continued exploring recent releases from Peggy Gou, Goat Girl, DIIV, A. G. Cook, Beth Gibbons, Jessica Pratt and Girl and Girl on the show this week, while the super-sized retro alternative set strived to establish my own West Of The Fields “canon,” after a pair of new “best albums ever” lists, a poorly received one from Apple Music and a pretty fascinating one from Paste Magazine, got a lot of attention from music nerds in the past couple weeks. My own “best ever” list includes some old favorites you’ve heard me play many times on the show (Mew, Ringo Sheena, Curve, Ivy) and some newer additions that have made a big impression on me lately (Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, The Waterboys, Fishmans). Here’s the tracklist for the full show:

West Of The Fields June 11, 2024

• R.E.M.- Maps And Legends
• Charli XCX- Club Classics
• Peggy Gou- Back To One
• Disclosure- She’s Gone, Dance On
• Nilüfer Yanya- Method Actor
• Sasami- Honeycrash
• Soccer Mommy- Lost
• Talking Heads- Girlfriend Is Better
• Beabadoobee- Coming Home
• Clairo- Sexy To Someone
• Phantogram- All A Mystery
• Friko- Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
• Bar Italia- The Only Conscious Being In The Universe
• Gift- Going In Circles
• Goat Girl- Words Fell Out
• DIIV- Reflected
• A. G. Cook- Greatly
• Caroline Polachek- Starburned And Unkissed
• Jamie xx- Treat Each Other Right
• Romy- Always Forever
• Caribou- Broke My Heart
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Frogs
• Beth Gibbons- Beyond The Sun
• Jessica Pratt- Empires Never Know
• Can- Paris 73 Fünf
• Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges- Trem De Doido
• Neil Young- Revolution Blues
• William Onyeabor- Better Change Your Mind
• Matia Bazar- Il Video Sono Io
• Yellow Magic Orchestra- Ballet
• Rajie- Kaleidoscope
• Akina Nakamori- New Generation
• Os Mutantes- Bat Macumba
• Eurythmics- Missionary Man
• The Waterboys- Red Army Blues
• The Cure- Cold
• Happy Mondays- Hallelujah (Club Mix)
• Curve- Coast Is Clear
• Stereolab- Ping Pong
• PJ Harvey- A Place Called Home
• Fiona Apple- On The Bound
• This Perfect Day- Could Have Been Friends
• Ivy- This Is The Day
• Saint Etienne- Sylvie
• Manic Street Preachers- Dead Martyrs
• Primal Scream- Accelerator
• Massive Attack- Angel (feat. Horace Andy)
• Ladytron- International Dateline
• Susanne Sundfør- Kamikaze
• Röyksopp- You Don’t Have A Clue (feat. Anneli Drecker)
• Chromatics- Shadow (Radio)
• Delays- Nearer Than Heaven
• El Perro Del Mar- God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get)
• Beach House- Myth
• Gemma Hayes- Let A Good Thing Go
• Mew- 156
• Makthaverskan- This Time
• Ringo Sheena- Okonomi De – As You Wish
• Fishmans- Long Season Pt. 5
• Cindy Lee- If You Hear Me Crying
• The Raveonettes- All I Have To Do Is Dream
• Wishy- Love On The Outside
• Ela Minus- Combat
• Washed Out- Running Away
• Porches- Joker
• Hinds and Beck- Boom Boom Back
• Girl and Girl- Oh Boy!
• Magdalena Bay- Death & Romance
• Desire- Vampire
• R.E.M.- Green Grow The Rushes

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