3 Longer Listens While Longing for a Return to Normal

You can’t control the world spiralling out into a Hieronymus Bosch painting. But you can control the soundtrack to it. Here’s a trinity of balm-like audio experiences that will soothe the ache for what was taken for granted not so long ago.

1 BOLIS PUPUL - MIXTAPE to listen to at home in times of Corona

Just because nightlife is reduced to kind of being alive at night, that doesn’t mean your nocturnal audio should be reduced to whatever loop is playing inside your mind. This soothing mix made for The Word radio is just one more reason why the existence of Bolis Pupul is a blessing for us all. Click the artwork to listen. (And of you haven’t listened to The Most Podcast with Bolis Pupul, you can catch up here.)

2 Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine (instrumentals)

Good egg Toro Y Moi (as opposed to the bad eggs in the Bosch paintings, see?) is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of ‘Underneath The Pine’ with an Instrumentals Cassette and some UTP merch. He’s also uploaded the whole thing on Youtube so you don’t need a “realistic” cassette tape to enjoy it.

3 LEFTO - THINK OUTSIDE THE KIOSK

Keeping up with the ‘taking for granted’ theme: it can be easy to take the brilliantly cross-genre selections of LeFtO for granted because he drops a new one every Sunday, but every one deserves multiple listens, really. Lush and funny and alive, as always.

(Also: listen to the very first episode of The Most podcast with LeFtO if you haven’t already.)

Image up top: Hieronymus Bosch - The Visions of Tondal, 1479