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Real Lies – Seven Sisters

This fun track is a throwback to my days living in London. I used to travel through the Seven Sisters area on a daily basis. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Real Lies are from London and remind me more than a little of the Pet Shop Boys.

/RjK

D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Betray My Heart

Continuing on my theme of albums, this is taken from one of the other albums I listening to a lot this year D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah. It’s silky smoothness got me through a long summer of running, riding buses and performing monotonous tasks.

It was released in late 2014 and signaled a return to form after a very long hiatus for the talented, if enigmatic D’Angelo.

/RjK

Glen Hansard – McCormack’s Wall

This is taken from on of my favourite albums of 2015: Didn’t He Ramble by Glen Hansard. My relationship with Irish music can be complicated; sometimes it is nice to reminded of home, sometimes I find it too twee by half.

However, I encountered this record at a time when my mind was drawn from Berkeley to the Emerald Isle which made it’s traditional sound perfect. This is especially true of this track which reminded me of my rurual small town adolescence.

/RjK