Inner Birthday Song

This week we're featuring Kelly Lee Owens brand new Inner Song, which I've been playing all week long. Hers is music whose influences and inspirations seem to resonate with me especially clearly, so the set-list tonight stradles a lot of other electronic and dance legends, and synth-laden rock too.

It's also BFF.fm's 7th birthday today. Happy birthday, us.

Playlist

  1. Solipsism by Fenne Lily on Solipsism (Dead Oceans) New
  2. Hollywood $$$ by Seraphina Simone on Hollywood $$$ (Self Released) New
  3. Break
  4. Featured Night by Kelly Lee Owens on Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)

    New Our first pick from the record of the week. KLO's sophomore record arrives a few months late due to the Coronavirus, but it hits the mood just right.

  5. Funny Break (One is Enough) by Orbital on The Altogether (FFRR)
  6. Elegia by New Order on Low-Life (Warner)
  7. Sometime in the Sadness by Four Tet on Sixteen Oceans (Text)
  8. Break
  9. Featured Re-Wild by Kelly Lee Owens on Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound) New
  10. Reach For The Dead by Boards Of Canada on Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
  11. Nastasya by Doon Kanda on Labyrinth (Hyperdub)

    This is totally new to me, but I love the Orbital-esque chord progression.

  12. A Stroke of Luck by Garbage on Garbage (Almo Sounds)
  13. Break
  14. Video Game by Sufjan Stevens on The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty) New
  15. Break
  16. Featured Arpeggi by Kelly Lee Owens on Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)

    New It take some incredible vision to even think to record a cover of latter-career Radiohead, let alone to have the confidence to open your record with it. Everything about this track: Its placement, the surprise and delight of it even existing. Bold perfection.

  17. 4 Minute Warning by Radiohead on In Rainbows (XL)
  18. Keep Walking by Kelly Lee Owens on Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)
  19. We Float by PJ Harvey on Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island)
  20. Eyen by Plaid on Warp20 (Chosen) (Warp)
  21. Break
  22. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) (Piano Version) by Grandaddy on The Sophtware Slump … on a wooden piano (Dangerbird) New Local
  23. Wake Me Up by Alice Boman on Wake Me Up (PIAS) New
  24. Shadows (feat. Lou Stone) by Zero 7 on Shadows EP (Make) New
  25. Birthday by Blur on Leisure (Parlophone)

    Happy 7th birthday, BFF.fm. Here's the anthem for all COVID-19 pandemic birthdays.

  26. Birthday by The Beatles on The Beatles (Apple)
  27. Break
  28. Immunity (feat. King Creosote) by Jon Hopkins on Immunity (Domino)