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Wu-Lu’s Learning to Swim on Empty: A Deep Dive into Genre-Defying Sounds and Raw Emotion
#wu-lu #vinyl #indiemusicSouth London musician Wu-Lu, also known as Miles Romans-Hopcraft, continues to break boundaries with his latest EP, Learning to Swim on Empty, released in May 2024 under Warp Records. Following the success of his 2022 debut album Loggerhead, this new project showcases an even more introspective and experimental side of the artist. Wu-Lu, known for his genre-agnostic approach, blends a myriad of influences from post-punk and dub to abstract hip hop, crafting a sound that’s both innovative and deeply personal. The EP is a journey through Wu-Lu’s reflections on life in Brixton, exploring themes of grief, rebirth, and the resilience needed to navigate life’s challenges.(...)
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FAVOURITE MUSIC 2022
I listened to far more music in 2022 than I did in 2021, despite not actively putting a radio show together or even actively seeking out many releases. I kept to an accidentally rigorous regime of listening to a few records every week, often while walking or driving, and that might explain this longer list of my year end favourites. Probably not a lot of surprises here, with lots of artists I have never failed to recommend to others! Click the album name for a link to the music on Bandcamp if possible.
Again, I did apply strict criteria: doesn't matter whether it was a reissue or not, but had to like it enough to try and get a copy, attend a show, or support the artist in some way, and/or listened to it repeatedly during the year. Several artists got two entries - but that's because the records in question by German Army and Nail Club are companion pieces of sort (they work better when listened to together, in my mind).
There is also some music I didn't get around to really appreciating this year - by Heaven for Real, Mali Obomsawin, Horse Lords, Chatpile and that exciting Groucho Pepe release - that theoretically might have made this list had I gotten around to it.
FIRST ROW:
Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful For Me
Omodaka - ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019
Kali Malone - Living Torch
Crack Cloud - Tough Baby
Use Knife - The Shedding of Skin
SECOND ROW:
German Army - Endless Suburb / Allocations Of The American Nile
Diagonals - Born Under A Rhyming Planet (re-issue)
Wu-Lu - Loggerhead
Night Beheaded - Enter Earth
THIRD ROW:
J. Carter - Speak, You Also
Nail Club - Absolution / Mise en Abyme
CTM - Babygirl
Maylee Todd - Maloo
FOURTH ROW:
John Rose - Kent County
The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At the Stars
Kill Alters - Armed To The Teeth L.M.O.M.M.
700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare
Shygirl - Nymph
FIFTH ROW:
Naujawanan Baidar - Khedmat Be Khalq
Cucina Povera & Ben Vince - There I See Everything
Dean Hurley + Romance - In Every Home A Heartache
Fatboi Sharif x noface - Preaching In Havana
Snake Chain - Snake Chain
SIXTH ROW:
დელფინების საავადმყოფო & خاااب - Georgian Letters
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic (re-issue)
Joyful Joyful - Joyful Joyful
Zola Jesus - Arkhon
Don-Bradshaw Leather - Distance Between Us (re-issue)
I used to live in South London
There’s not much of it left
He used to part of a team
There’s not much of them left
But it's all bless
Don't even stress
I figured we were the same
Come from scattered bottled broken estates
His loose lips kept their promise
Blowing off the heads of broken promise
Priced out forced change
More rent to pay
Lockеd down full days
Big blue out late
Slow times hold wеight
Cut ties outbreak
Make no mistake
We’ll show our face in
South South South South
Steel bars on his head
Fighting habits and threats
Drinking low tides
Skating Brixton at night
The country's a mess
Showing no progress
We’ll build this fire from the troops and the lies
Dancing round the issue
They're fighting for their crown
They're trying to keep us under the thumb and keep our minds locked down
Your questions are your answers, You know it in your soul
They don't want to be truthful
They don't want to lose control of
South South South South
I used to live in North London
There’s not much of it left
(The) city know we living inna dis
254 know even more than my history
Knows doors we whispered to on floors made of prism
Know forgiveness, know everything
But my soul’s a bloody mystery
Embers know of homes swept away by the furnace
Ever seen a city burn alert?
(You) learn to worship the dust
Cup overflowing bricks
We deserved it
We heard you
But do we keep the church or service?
Sermons feeling further away from my verbiage I’m hurting
Winter clapping back at my sternum
It’s murking me
I respect the urgency
Earnestly
If it cracks the spirit of a lion it deserves it I’m afraid that day ain’t today or another
Jah
Cover me and whatever will need to be covered
Cover everything weather I’m in need or I got it
City in my pocket clutching at my _
This week a hellified cry into the dark with Lily Palmer, Liv.e, Two Shell, DIVINEANGEL, СОЮЗ (SOYUZ), David Crosby, Joan Reggae Drummer, uh, Hagan, Wu-Lu, Heartworms, Greg Surmacz, Angeline Morrison, Maciej Filipczuk and Triz.