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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 6h

#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge

🗓️ 2013

Day 1️⃣1️⃣

🎵 The Ghost Of The Mountain
🎤 Tired Pony

Glorious title track of the second album from the supergroup featuring, amongst several others, Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody and Peter Buck of R.E.M.

youtu.be/g_8I5fx2Xt0

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 6h

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

Day 1️⃣1️⃣
🇵🇹 Portugal

🎵 The Master
🎤 Nico Paulo

From the Portuguese/Canadian singer-songwriter’s self-titled LP, one of my fav songs of 2023 ☺️

🎶 How come you never get angry?
How come you never get sad?
Oh I believe I can master that 🎶

youtu.be/hlCJVgn5_7M

#EUrOcktober

Nico Paulo - "The Master" (Official Video)

YouTube video by N i c o P a u l o

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 6h

#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge

🎤 Celebrating the music of Penny & Sparrow, from Austin, TX.

5️⃣

🎵 Undress
💿 Struggle Pretty (2014)

The duo’s lyrics often appear to deal with faith and doubt. The song builds to a triumphant conclusion.

🎶 Empty rooms are honest places 🎶

youtu.be/sQFvnxxKpLg

Undress

YouTube video by Penny and Sparrow - Topic

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 16h

I played The Antlers first thing this morning, Graham - really impressed. October is turning out to be a great month for new music! Flock Of Dimes and The Autumn Defense are two more on my radar from today’s releases 😊

Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 22h

The new album sounds really good, Graham! I’m going to have a better listen tomorrow. I’ve enjoyed their music since Tamer Animals 👍🏻

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

thebesnardlakes.ffm.to/ghost-nation

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

#NewMusicFriday

The Besnard Lakes from Montréal, QC 🇨🇦 was my Sep #ArtistFave15

The Besnard Lakes Is The Ghost Nation is out today. I hear more melody in their psych rock than before. Chemin de la Baie and Carried It All Around stand out - the former could be their best yet ☺️

youtu.be/yMGneeUhTbc

The Besnard Lakes - Chemin de la Baie [Official Video]

YouTube video by Full Time Hobby

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed listening to it once through this morning Mary, recommended by @petepaphides.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Highlights for me upon first listen: Sweet Feather & The Storm, and a cover of Wild Is The Wind which took me completely by surprise!

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
Day 🔟

#EUr0cktober #EUrOcktober
Greece 🇬🇷 - the beautiful Greek island of Rhodes (Ródos) 😊

#20SongsByYear
🗓️ 2013

🎵 Raise Your Love
🎤 RHODES

From his EP of the same name, one of a series of profound 10” releases. For fans of Jeff Buckley, perhaps.

youtu.be/Jtq9qziV3Ao

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll carry out some testing at my end! Thanks Tom 😊

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge

Celebrating the music of indie folk duo, Penny & Sparrow 🥳

6️⃣

🎵 Valjean
💿 Tenboom (2013)

Being Jean Valjean, he of Les Misérables. I am familiar with neither the book nor the stage show, but this song inspires me to read Victor Hugo’s novel 📚💙

youtu.be/0_aK90WkWec

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

Towards the end of the decade, I’d rely on websites such as RCRD LBL for new music that was so often right up my street. That’s where I discovered The Antlers and James Vincent McMorrow amongst many, many others. You had to work so much harder to find it then - back in the “old days” 😂

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

I missed those first two albums at the time - it was Sam’s cover of Such Great Heights from the Garden State soundtrack that first alerted me to his music. Anyway, I’m enjoying listening to OEND right now - thanks, Joe!

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

Fab choice, Tom - probably my favourite of many great GL songs 😊

Btw, can you still get Songlink to work? It only returns podcasts at this end.

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a great choice. It has to be my top Top song! 🥳

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

#NewMusic2025

youtu.be/y3s4FlPPvxY

Midlake - "The Calling" (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Midlake

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge

🗓️ 2013

Day 9️⃣

🎵 It’s Going Down
🎤 Midlake
💿 Antiphon

On the day that the band from Denton, TX releases another track (see below) from their imminent new album, no better time to post my favourite from the first record by the Mk. II line-up 😊

youtu.be/-KJnPfsWPpM

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

The first single I ever bought with my pocket money. I’ve added many more beautifully bleak records to my collection ever since! 😆

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge

🎤 Penny & Sparrow

7️⃣

🎵 Don’t Wanna Be Without Ya (Friend Group Remix)

The 2021 Horse Color Two remix album took the duo onto the dancefloor. This song first featured on the Finch studio LP. A million miles from the original, yet irresistible 💃🕺🏻

youtu.be/C-fZ2FPKSPo

Penny & Sparrow - Don't Wanna Be Without Ya (Friend Group Remix)

YouTube video by Penny and Sparrow

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

An accomplished guitar player, Katie’s voice has a warmth even more evident in a small, live setting ☺️

Last night, she performed this beautiful and very personal song amongst many others in front of a captivated audience in south Birmingham 🙏🏻

katiespencerofficial.bandcamp.com/album/what-l...

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

#EUr0cktober #EUrOcktober

Day 9️⃣
🇬🇧

🎵 It Was Then That I Knew Love

For the UK leg of our European #MusicChallenge, I’ve chosen a song from What Love Is, the stunning new record by folk singer-songwriter, Katie Spencer from Hull, Yorkshire.

@katiespencermusic.bsky.social

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youtu.be/iJElIVsrfas

Katie Spencer - It Was Then That I Knew Love (Live Session)

YouTube video by Katie Spencer

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a regular visitor to my turntable, Ricky! The Trapeze Swinger would probably make my Desert Island Discs 😊 Is that your favourite I&W album?

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

I realised only very recently Ricky, that I’d overlooked his 2024 album, Light Verse. I’ve therefore been familiarising myself with it - and it’s very good indeed. Consistent, as you rightly point out!

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 2d

That’s correct, Marc - Patrick’s music is no longer on Spotify, but it can be enjoyed on Bandcamp.

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Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · 3d

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