Dayaway - Desert Island

A perfectly crafted dream-pop gem from NY.
Instant favorite, 30 seconds in.

Blade Runner Blues, from the Blade Runner soundtrack, 1982.
One of the very best pieces of music ever recorded.

Atmospheric.
            Meditative.
                       Hypnotic.
              Ethereal.
         Noir.

Godspeed, Vangelis!

Hatchie - The Rhythm

All the right '90s influences in one track.

New Candys - Begin Again

This one is easily among my favorite and most listened songs of 2021. Dark and moody, with meandering guitars and hazy vocals... I was hooked at first listen. Great video too (and that's quite uncommon nowadays).

'Found' by Brothertiger is the perfect soundtrack to a late night drive along the ocean in the summer of 1987. A red Lamborghini Countach or a white Testarossa... with pop-up headlights glowing in the dark.

New Order - Vicious Streak

Alvvays are among my favorite bands from the last decade: they embody the lightheartedness of better days; their songs feel like a reminiscence of those carefree summer afternoons from the early ’90s.

Their biggest hit so far is Archie, Marry Me, an addictive indie-poppy tune built on a simple chord progression released in 2013:

Today I came across My Forgotten Favorite, a relatively unknown track released by a relatively unknown American band called Velocity Girl in 1991: the similarity – both in mood and vocal rendition – is striking.

And if you read the Wikipedia page about Velocity Girl, you find out that the guitarist’s first name was… yes, you got it right: Archie.

London Grammar - Missing