Sonderlust – Album Review

Well.

I started to write to you about this week, but I ultimately found it too painful and too personal for a corner of the internet that is meant to be a jolly diversion.

Maybe after I take more time to process and to grieve.

To be honest, I hardly have the heart to move forward joking and posting nonsensical matters–it feels like a false shroud flung over a crippled spirit. But I think it’s the very thing that needs to be done, the moving forward in humour. We can’t let heart and spirit be forever crushed beneath the silencing foot of oppression.

We must continue to rise above, continue to create. And no creative expression is too small or meaningless.

That said, here’s a link to another crummy and pointless review by yours truly — Kishi Bashi’s latest album Sonderlust released in September. In summation, the album is great and happy and you should definitely check it out.

And here too is a Kishi Bashi / of Montreal / ABBA inspired playlist to lift our sunken spirits on this Friday.

1. Ode to My Next Life – Kishi Bashi
2. She’s a Rejecter – of Montreal
3. Once Upon a Lucid Dream (In Afrikaans) – Kishi Bashi
4. Id Engager – of Montreal
5. Honeybody – Kishi Bashi
6. Sex Karma – of Montreal
7. Carry on Phenomenon – Kish Bashi
8. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) – ABBA
9. Atticus, In the Desert – Kishi Bashi
10. So Begins Our Alabee – of Montreal
11. Can’t Let Go, Juno – Kishi Bashi
12. It All Began With a Burst – Kishi Bashi
13. Wicked Wisdom – of Montreal
14. Hey Big Star – Kishi Bashi
15. Like a Tourist – of Montreal
16. In Fantasia – Kishi Bashi
17. Statues in a Gallery – Kishi Bashi
18. Voulez-Vous – ABBA
19. Beat the Bright Out of Me – Kishi Bashi
20. An Eluardian Instance – of Montreal

Click to listen on Spotify.

We’ve made it through the week – this is a huge accomplishment – so let’s wiggle.

Keep on keeping on, my pretty ones.

xWG