Melodías miscelánea

With all this crap Xmas music dominating the airwaves at the moment, I think it's time for a selection of some of the "newer" choons that have caught my ear of late...

Let's start with a singer whose voice really made me sit up and take notice - Jacob Lusk of Gabriels!

Gabriels – Blame

From the sublime to...the return of - ahem - Tight Fit?!!

Tight Fit - Fallout (Matt Pop Extended Mix)

They've obviously been listening to Steps...

At last! Ollie's got the chance to "play the Princess" - it is panto season, after all...[Oh, yes it is!]

Years and Years, Galantis - Sweet Talker

Here's a couple of our fave fierce Spanish divas who wouldn't look out of place in a Panto, either, with this range of outfits:

Gloria Trevi, Monica Naranjo - Grande

This next couple really need to "get a room"...

Alfie Arcuri - Devil's Lips

A song that's become a bit of an "anthem for the pandemic era", it actually began life as a conversation on Zoom:

Fred again.. feat. The Blessed Madonna - Marea (We've Lost Dancing)

Next up, a mindfuck. Once you've seen this slice of weirdness from BBC Sounds of 2022 nominees Wet Leg, you can never "unsee" it.
[2024 UPDATE: Gone from the interwebs. Here's the audio version:

Wet Leg - Too Late Now

[...and here's one of those godawful "reaction" videos, where at least you can see the video, if tiny in comparison to the egotists doing their "review".]

Saving the best to last - this!

Hard Feelings (aka Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and Amy Douglas) - Sister Infinity

As always, dear reader - let me know your thoughts.

Of new plants and new music

Salvia "Rockin' Fuchsia" [click to embiggen]

The British weather continues to confound us all - yesterday and my birthday were mainly sunny (contrary to all forecasts by the Met Office), and today it has stayed warm yet grey and grizzly; all of which has meant I have been busy getting a few late-season pottering jobs done in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers including rearranging pots, shifting ones that are "over" and moving those yet to flower into their place. Our lovely local garden centre sent me a birthday voucher, which I put towards another beautiful new salvia [as above] yesterday (and I potted that up), and I also lugged home a sizeable new terracotta pot from Homebase today and repotted the Scilla peruviana into it (in the vain hope it might actually flower next year). Now I'm pooped.

Time, methinks, for a selection of some of the "newer" music that has caught my ear of late...

First up, a bit of class (with a capital "k"):

VOCES8 - Straighten Up and Fly Right [Nat King Cole cover]

Something perhaps less classy, and quite bewildering - it came highly recommended from the "Cabinet of Curiosities" that is Dangerous Minds blog:

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue

A very welcome return for "prime totty" Jake Shears with this one - apparently a "leftover" from an old Scissor Sisters session. It reminds me of something else, but I can't put my finger on it...

Jake Shears - Do The Television

Next up, something that (again) is not new at all - it's from 2017, in fact - but I had never heard it until Jake's former bandmate Ana Matronic played it on her Radio 2 Dance Devotion show, so it counts as "new" as far as I'm concerned:

Camelphat and Elderbrook - Cola

Speaking of "club bangers", M'Lud - this one definitely is a recent release, and it's faboo! [...and features just about everybody who is anybody in Noo Yawk's clubland in its video, to boot.]

Ariana and the Rose - Every Body

Leaving the best to last, however - Miss Chachki's getting kinky again, with a song that bears more than a passing resemblance to Miss Kittin and the Hacker, or indeed several choons from the 1980s. Which is no bad thing, in my book!

Violet Chachki and Allie X - Mistress Violet

Phew.

As ever, dear reader, enjoy - and let me know what you think!