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Culture // Music of the Week / Aug 22, 2021
This week's playlist is about culture. Culture isn’t the language you speak. Culture is holding the door open for the person walking behind you when there’s nobody on the other side to prostrate over your generosity. Culture is living within your means. Culture is attempting to buy respect or love or loyalty when you can’t be arsed to earn it.
Peter Gabriel — So
A classic of experimental pop, striking a deliciously fine balance between those two words that are unfortunately (read: incorrectly) often seen as contradictory: experimental and pop.
Nation of Language —Introduction, Presence
This album does such a good job of something that’s been done so many times before. That said, you’d be right to ask: does the world need another one of these after the 80’s nostalgia of the National, the Editors, the 1975, Future Islands, and on and on the list goes. The answer is yes, it does.