FEATURE: The February Playlist: Vol. 1: So Far, So Okay…ish

FEATURE:

 

The February Playlist

 

 

Vol. 1: So Far, So Okay…ish

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WE have made it into 2017’s second month without…

IN THIS PHOTO: Salt Ashes

a major celebrity death (not in music anyway) and relatively few atrocities on the world’s stage. That might change, but for the moment, there is a bit more hope on the horizon – regardless of Trump and his wackier-by-the-day policies. The first instalment of The February Playlist is as rich and full as any I’ve ever collated. Included are new tracks from Bob Dylan, Kate Tempest and London Grammar; a song from M.I.A.’s 2007 album, Kala – as it celebrates its tenth birthday – and a selection from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (its fortieth birthday is today). Also, I select a cavalcade of sumptuous new music from mainstream idols and underground diamonds. Take a list through the A, B and C-List selections and enjoy a veritable mouthful of incredible sounds.

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London Grammar – Big Picture

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbUMKenn5l8&w=560&h=315]

Depeche Mode – Where’s the Revolution?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpuaPfOuxB0&w=560&h=315]

Bob Dylan – I Could Have Told You

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJdKQ92-H_c&w=560&h=315]

Kate Tempest - Europe Is Lost

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSVyyykaEOo&w=560&h=315]

Liv Dawson – Searching

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17xcEuXfas&w=560&h=315]

Izzy Bizu – Talking to You

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqA58IGylGw&w=560&h=315]

Lisa Hannigan – Undertow

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSnaQAv77JE&w=560&h=315]

Ryan Adams – Do You Still Love Me?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ7HvSnDQo&w=560&h=315]

The Divine Comedy – To the Rescue

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyH6bnt56mU&w=560&h=315]

M.I.A. – Paper Planes

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iJyO5brR8&w=560&h=315]

British Sea Power - Bad Bohemian

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYkok5Oph0&w=560&h=315]

Maggie Rogers – On + Off

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdIBxhONpC0&w=560&h=315]

Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSuIYwBxu4&w=560&h=315]

Iggy Pop – Gold

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpI9Cckh1tc&w=560&h=315]

Missy Elliott (ft.Lamb) – I’m Better

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyPsUd9LAk&w=560&h=315]

Blondie – Fun

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJfyvGbjh3c&w=560&h=315]

Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZRURcb1cM&w=560&h=315]

PINS (ft. Iggy Pop) – Aggrophobe

https://open.spotify.com/track/1HeSsmUn5vZMGYFn8w8XMx

Emeli Sandé - Highs & Lows

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_OlhrBEISw&w=560&h=315]

Mariah Carey (ft. YG) - I Don't 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQ68AW0LMY&w=560&h=315]

Future Islands – Ran

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGi-wJP1q6o&w=560&h=315]

Blanck Mass – Silent Treatment

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8QMSMb-Bs&w=560&h=315]

James Blunt - Love Me Better

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHHEac83B8&w=560&h=315]

NF – How Could You Leave Us

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzQMCyPc8o&w=560&h=315]

Tennis – Modern Woman

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6O0mQ5Smxs&w=560&h=315]

Summer Moon – Happenin’

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDxS1WqGh7g&w=560&h=315]

Father John Misty - Two Wildly Different Perspectives

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT2-0y1542I&w=560&h=315]

Linnea Olsson – Hall of Tragedy 

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305208317" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]

Fast Romantics – Why We Fight

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eli2I7mMvb8&w=560&h=315]

Skip Marley – Lions

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Y7yQIZT4Q&w=560&h=315]

Brooke Candy (ft. Sia) - Living Out Loud

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhwZQEtuww&w=560&h=315]

Soen - Sectarian

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CvvggCPrI&w=560&h=315]

Lower Than Atlantis – Boomerang

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-_GFbUKSyY&w=560&h=315]

J Alvarez (ft. Lapiz Conciente) - Los Del Torque

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdr_wMkwcc&w=560&h=315]

Ariana Grande (ft. Future) - Everyday

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELFIuhSPCI&w=560&h=315]

Blossoms – Honey Sweet

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTmNXbH_Rs&w=560&h=315]

Deap Vally - Critic

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8xs1mOrSj0&w=560&h=315]

Cold War Kids – Love Is Mystical

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe3oSfUG00&w=560&h=315]

Ansel Elgort – Thief

https://play.spotify.com/track/3BtA1koBtnClfirgg4BpjI

Vali - Ain't No Friend of Mine

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6e_T0ySmE&w=560&h=315]

Bipolar Sunshine – The Scientist

https://play.spotify.com/track/4Fmh543L8tFPlhaVdVRU5i

Molly Kate Kestner – Prom Queen

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdM78QEXCc&w=560&h=315]

The New Respects – Money

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OurlVR1xJOw&w=560&h=315]

Formation – A Friend

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-bph5TLxvc&w=560&h=315]

Shaggy - That Love (Tropixx Remix)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCYMnfFm48s&w=560&h=315]

The Mowgli’s – 4AM

https://play.spotify.com/track/6ZIFaKXP0zqSlPu9lffBTz

Less Than Jake – Bomb Drop

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkc_eEYKP4&w=560&h=315]

Tribe Society – Secrets

https://play.spotify.com/track/332kjIokSlHaFf7yuDz2hH

Cosima – To Build a House

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQtNUhJzdUA&w=560&h=315]

Little Big Town – Better Man

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9NQ8ASmX4&w=560&h=315]

The Menzingers - Thick as Thieves

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_YXaO53mTg&w=560&h=315]

Borussia – Kinda Love

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlri3hJr9Iw&w=560&h=315]

Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzUZhdVHSUo&w=560&h=315]

Salt Ashes – Save It

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeyprhY4E0&w=560&h=315]

Louis the Child (feat. Evalyn) - Fire

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrlVwxziFE&w=560&h=315]

Imagine Dragons – Believer

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF9ky9Rs4dg&w=560&h=315]

Vanbot - Collide (Krasnoyarsk)

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302953527" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]

Vuurwerk (ft. Khazali) – Face It

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wexpXFR891Q&w=560&h=315]

Sälen – Heartbreak Diet

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304278258" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]

Father John Misty – Ballad of the Dying Man

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVaafph6HSQ&w=560&h=315]

Frances – No Matter

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ohpzP5saw&w=560&h=315]

Afi – Aurelia

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZpiUC3QDX4&w=560&h=315]

God Damn – It Bites

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQH8Wf9tHy0&w=560&h=315]

Wolf Alice – Silk (From the T2: Trainspotting Soundtrack)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEASmSwndnw&w=560&h=315]

Communions – Come On, I’m Waiting

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-Dvw1TTlg&w=560&h=315]

Frenship – 1000 Nights

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HnaFtTV1wA&w=560&h=315]

SonReal – No Warm Up

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOn_b8JsMPI&w=560&h=315]

Alex Dezen – Holding on to You (Holding on to Me)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05aBBnTQkE&w=560&h=315]

Big Sean – Moves

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DLifNnJ3vk&w=560&h=315]

Homeshake – Khmlwugh

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdYcgmys5I&w=560&h=315]

Big Wreck - Skybunk Marché

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLh7hKTLLc&w=560&h=315]

Ezi Emela - Chineke Meh

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fokMWiEl4hw&w=560&h=315]

Porcelain Raft - The Poets Were Right

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkB1ZLDGoe0&w=560&h=315]

Jain - Heads Up

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNqtsN-lV0&w=560&h=315]

Rolling Stone P - Calvin Klein

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhWNyB2m1Q&w=560&h=315]

Syd – Body

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7kW3Q46UUc&w=560&h=315]

Secret Company – Alive

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYmXmk8LqpY&w=560&h=315]

Thieves Like Us – Broken Mirror

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzmGvi0rPtw&w=560&h=315]

Pia Mia - We Should Be Together

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdR1Vr9TM2k&w=560&h=315]

Betty Who – Some Kinda Wonderful

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGEI_1nzp3I&w=560&h=315]

Lucy Mason – Hunger

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOIQbb5fQg4&w=560&h=315]

Jocelyn Alice – Bound to You

https://play.spotify.com/track/6MIwdFXHnImyz1TmsuUrEB

Ariana Grande and John Legend - Beauty and the Beast (From Beauty and the Beast)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScUbKoE-qs&w=560&h=315]

Surfer Blood – Frozen

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T7nAldxSFo&w=560&h=315]

August Alsina – Drugs

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPUdX8v8u0U&w=560&h=315]

Stormzy – Big for Your Boots

https://play.spotify.com/track/6WWHtYGEr1KCD4rELMVvaM

Post Malone (ft. Quavo) - Congratulations

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC4xMk98Pdc&w=560&h=315]

AMI (feat. What's UP) - Un actor

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL4KhnPl-0M&w=560&h=315]

Gothic Tropic - How Life Works

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqLzB2saxrw&w=560&h=315]

Alex Lahey - Wes Anderson

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAQNnd7QIkk&w=560&h=315]

Syd Arthur - No Peace

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDnL8byUAw&w=560&h=315]

Carousel Kings - Bad Habit

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpOhloXjY-A&w=560&h=315]

The Sherlocks - Was It Really Worth It?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lathEIl1fko&w=560&h=315]

Sampha – Reverse Faults

https://play.spotify.com/track/5IRLnB7JqTMcIlMtE0Rcuv

Sinkane – Telephone

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojFqFU5KZIE&w=560&h=315]

Lupe Fiasco – Wild Child

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCiGck634dM&w=560&h=315]

Tei Shi - Keep Running

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwEieJWAbls&w=560&h=315]

Mondo Cozmo - Sixes and Sevens

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPMbUDwsz20&w=560&h=315]

Teen Daze – Cycle

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9S773bxk4&w=560&h=315]

Digital Farm Animals (feat. Hailee Steinfeld) - Digital Love

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHcLKyTZ90&w=560&h=315]

The Sadies - Another Season Again

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqYWl49j6GE&w=560&h=315]

Brutus - Drive

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXYDQkvtec&w=560&h=315]

Zak Abel – Unstable

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8KwNLoTiQc&w=560&h=315]

Chilly Gonzales and Jarvis Cocker – Tearjerker

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR0pFvWRLaQ&w=560&h=315]

Noga Erez - Pity

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYNoy0J6MM&w=560&h=315]

Carly Pearce – Every Little Thing

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUZ2AL9QcU&w=560&h=315]

Youngr Kutle Khan - Out of My Mind

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqPHtVYWvQ&w=560&h=315]

Alxxa – Nobody

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdb_ri5jLrU&w=560&h=315]

Maejor – Vibrations

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4U1YfrAeg&w=560&h=315]

Stanaj – Changed

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303640814" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]

IN THIS PHOTO: London Grammar

I am looking forward to the next week as there are some seriously incredible songs unfolding. I know there are whispers and rumours (of what’s to come) but we will all see just what comes about very soon. There'll be some incredible mainstream gems and those rare, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it songs. Music is proving to be a very calming and pleasant influence. Keep your mind sharp and look out for a new bucket-load of fresh tracks this time next week!