#22 Patty O'Pounder
Or, the sounds of the longest hottest summer.
In a little over two weeks, I’m leaving the country for the rest of the year. I’ll be flying to Germany where I’ll be teaching a week long workshop along side my friend Annegret Frauenlob, before heading off to my real destination: Tartu, Estonia, where I’ll be an Artist in Residence at TYPA through November & December. [If you’d like to follow along with this trip, I’m going to try to actively journal on my patreon page, which you’re welcome to subscribe to, but I’ll be keeping the journal free and open]
I’ve known about this trip for over a year now, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t filling a disproportionate about of my brain during that entire period, even with the non-stop nature this entire year has been art and life wise. Unfortunately, this means I’ve let so many things fly by this year, especially this summer, without really taking the time to appreciate and reflect on them. This playlist is an attempt to bottle up the second half of this summer and remember friends and drives and nights away from home. I’m trying, but not doing terribly well, at trying to document and record things that seem important again. Maybe it’s to reignite nostalgia wistfulness, maybe its just that fact I am getting older and I’m busier and I remember a lot less and am generally concerned about the dementia in my future.
For folks unfamiliar with Bay Area microclimates, you may be aware of our notoriously cold summers, but you may not know that September and October are our real summer — it was 102 this weekend, in the shade — so, in my mind we are still in summer, and this playlist reflects that. It’s a pretty accurate take on the records and songs I kept going back to this summer, many of which I’m sure you did also. It might also feature the song central to the drag persona I’ve been crating in my mind for the last 6 months. If you’re sick of all the electronic pop and dance music I keep sharing, rest assured that the cold and dark Estonian winter should probably present something different soon.
#22 Patty O’Pounder
Listen here on Spotify | here for Youtube Music (lots of great videos again here).
Dr. Dog - Tell Your Friends
Fontaines D.C. - Favourite
Macseal - Permanent Repeat
Japandroids - Younger Us
The Beatles - Kansas City / HEY HEY HEY HEY [Go Royals]
KNEECAP - Fine Art
Troye Sivan - Rush
Galantis - Fool 4 U
The Halluci Nation - Sisters
Mk.gee - Little Bit More
Cassandra Jenkins - Only One
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubb’s Tears
Vampire Weekend - Mary Boone
This Is Lorelei - Dancing In The Club
Channel Tres - Need U 2 Know
Paul Russel - Lil Boo Thang
Tony! Toni! Tone! - Oakland Stroke
Sarah Kinsley - Sublime
Chappel Roan - After Midnight
Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer
Charli XCX - Talk Talk
Camila Cabello - Don’t Go Yet
NOEP - Head Out Of Water
Fred Again… Adore U
Nala Sinephro - Continuum 3
Shaboozey - A Bar Song
Leif Vollebekk - Moondog
Donovan Woods - Back For The Funeral
Curly Strings - Mind Nad Katte Ei Saa