heute:pop:blog.  

This is my penultimate show. Weird. As mentioned this morning there will be repeats of heute:pop:morgen on Tide 96.0 until the end of the year but no more new shows from me. Again, today I went through the playlists from the last five (!) to compile the below.

You can listen to the show here.

1. Gravenhurst ‘Velvet Cell’
2. Sebastien Tellier ‘La Ritournelle’ (Mr Dan’s Magic Wand Remix)
3. Bloc Party ‘The Pioneers’ (M83 Remix)
4. Beck ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’
5. Ben Gibbard ‘Carolina’
6. Willy Mason ‘We Can Be Strong’
7. The Postal Service ‘Against All Odds’
8. Chris Garneau ‘Baby’s Romance’
9. Manchester Orchestra ‘I Can Feel A Hot One’
10. Bon Iver ‘re: Stacks’
11. Soko ‘I Will Never Love You More’
12. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’
13. The Wave Pictures ‘I Love You Like A Madman’

I used to discover and select tracks for my radio show mainly by finding albums (in the shops or online), listening to them once or twice and picking the track I like most. It was time-consuming but it meant I would take in the full work of the artists.

Now it seems it is going the other way round – I find one track online and if I like it a lot I might also check out the rest of the album. Do I not have enough time to listen to entire albums? Even though this is certainly true it might only show half the truth: maybe I don’t want to invest the time into listening to music that I might end up not playing on my show.

When I prepared for today’s heute:pop:morgen show I really wanted to recommend some albums that I’ve been listening to a lot over the last month. Here we go:

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
Archive – Controlling Crowds (doesn’t seem to be available in th UK yet)
Fink – Sort Of Revolution

You know the deal: if you only want to listen to four albums this spring make sure it’s the above.

Haven’t posted a video in a while so it’s about time. Fever Ray is one half of The Knife (you will recognize her voice) and this is not just a great track but also a beautiful video. And you can almost see her face.

When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

After finding his presentation on the TED site (see below) I’ve read Richard St. John’s ‘8 To Be Great‘ over the holidays. He might not be the best writer and most of his points seem quite obvious at first but he summarizes his findings in a clever way and I found this short read very inspirational. Recommended!