A panoply of playable pleasures

It's grey, miserable and cold out there. Time, methinks, for another selection of "newer" choons that have caught my ear of late.

Let's open with a distinctively different take on an old classic...

ZRI (Zum Roten Igel): The Red Hedgehog Tavern Band - I Feel Love (Donna Summer cover)

Here's a rarity - Drag Race alumnus Violet Chakchi sans drag (as Paul Jason Dardo) doing her best Marc Almond impression in a video for Soft Cell's latest? Hell, yeah!

Soft Cell - Light Sleepers

By complete contrast... Any regular reader will be more than well aware of my atheist disdain for all things religious - but when we discover divas with voices like this, we pay them due homage. Just. Fucking. Wow!

The Como Mamas - Come Out the Wilderness

Taking a more sinister tone, here's what a typical week on the office is like:

Fever Ray - What They Call Us

Let's lighten the mood slightly, shall we, with some sleaze?

Darin - Satisfaction

Then, there's this - from Erasure's recently-released expanded "Deluxe Edition" of their 1995 self-titled album:

Erasure - Angel (Love Eternal Mix by TSF)

And finally, a remarkable track and video from a most unlikely artist to ever be considered "enlightened"...

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Pretty Boy

As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts...

Então vem cá e me abraça

Time, once again, for a little selection of newer music that has caught my ear of late...

First up, as the Government and the NHS make a final push to get the majority of adults across the UK to get their COVID jab, they've brought in some of the "big guns" of the theatrical world - including Jim Broadbent, Sir Derek Jacobi, the lovely Russell Tovey and former Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts - to assist:

[Also available to download from the GOV.UK website.]

Here's a jolly little number I discovered courtesy of the faboo Ana Matronic's "Dance Devotion" show on BBC Radio 2:

Raf Rundell Ft. Show Boy - Sweet Cheeks

This young chap has a fine set of pipes - and he's getting "high" in Soho:

Calum Foad - High

I was so thrilled to "rediscover" the talents of Miss Gaby Amarantos back in May, I just had to feature some more of her this time around! Ah, sunshine...

Jaloo ft. Gaby Amarantos - Q.S.A

Unsurprisingly, the next artist caught my eye as much as my ear - fancy a funk with him?

Darin - Can't Stay Away

Now for something completely different... A musical interpretation of Saint Vitus Dance, anyone? That'll do nicely!

L'Arpeggiata feat Vincenzo Capezzuto - Pizzica di San Vito

Finally, a house favourite here at Dolores Delargo Towers is paying due homage to the Weather Girls, it seems:

Todrick Hall - Rainin' Fellas

Faboo!

As ever, let me know your thoughts, dear reader.

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STOP PRESS:

Courtesy of Madam Arcati...

THIS!

Osher Sabag - Gold [Static and Ben-El Tavori]

Wow.