In the writing this post I am begrudgingly admitting that Scotland is in fact capable of producing things of value other than oil. This saddens me tremendously but I suppose it is give-and-take: you get the CEO of Brewdog and Brodin on one hand, and must get Cocteau Twins on the other or it just wouldn't be fair.

This is less of a song recommendation and more of an artist recommendation - I happen to quite like this track in particular but I also have yet to dislike any of their other tracks. Elizabeth Fraser's multifaceted voice of God backed up by the ethereal instrumental never fails to whisk me away. The lyrics are complete jibberish on basically all of their songs but does it really matter when it sounds like this? I can recommend "Heaven or Las Vegas", "Four-Calendar Café" and "Treasure" without a second thought.

DoReMiソファー - YAKUSHIMARU Etsuko & d.v.d

Kind of a strange song to start; I think this one is pretty fun to listen to. The whole album broadly falls into the category of 'experimental' music and feels a bit more like a collection of skits honestly, but it's still sonically pleasant.

On this track in particular I quite like her vocal presentation; the aloof-cutesy tone of her voice paints the boredom of performing vocal drills in the verses, and an absentminded tantrum in the choruses that's empowered by the blast beats (? I think that's what they're called) in the final chorus. She sounds like this on a lot of her songs but I think it is at its coolest on this album.

I thought it'd be nice to start with something that requires little thought and can be done in bitesize pieces. Inspired by Samuel's post I'll post a song every now and then that I remembered enjoying and maybe write some words about the things I enjoyed about it.

Perhaps this might even inspire others to do the same (crazy!)