Final two selections! I've loved finding songs with a vibe of loneliness, yearning, broadcasting, airwaves, connection. So lush, dreamy, evocative. My favorite new song of the entire year.
I'll be broadcasting all night Hope my signal is loud and clear
Selection number 18. Another one for staring at the ceiling and wondering why you're not with the person you want to be with. This version is sublime, especially because it's not with that other guy, and Johnny Marr's guitar does the crying for you.
As gorgeous and bleak and spare as Billie Eilish's original, but with Lewis Capaldi's breath-catching plaintive voice. This one is a masterclass in yearnification, listen to it and cry your eyes out.
It's not all midnight romance and yearnification, sometimes it's staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out how you possibly fucked yourself over so hard. This is the one to remind you that you fucked it indeed, baby.
This album came out when I was only 12 but I was crazy about it, a little pre-teen romantic already. A beautiful one to revisit, late night hope, yearnification, and Chris Cornell's once-in-a-generation voice.
