Juli Patchouli's August 2024 Miserablist Mish-Mash Playlist:

Introduction

My friend Juli is a music lover, DJ, Poet, Writer, Performer, Snake Owner, and Cat Lover and publishes playlists on Facebook.

These twenty songs are all her choices, I have not heard any of them though I know a few of the bands so I will comment as I put this playlist together.

YouTube does not indicate where the videos are licensed to play so I try and choose the artist's or record label's channels in the hope they will be globally available.

Take a listen and leave comments, I'd love to hear what you think.

Many of these coincide with the last one so I have taken liberties with other songs Juli has shared.

Thanks for this Juli.

This was the last one:

Miserabilist Mish-Mash August 2024 (this one's pretty much all post-punk)

LE SYNDICAT ELECTRONIQUE - "La Fatigue"

Not heard this and drum machine driven with an almost spoken French vocal. The riff is hypnotic, making me think Fad Gadget and The Normal.

FRENCH POLICE - "Her"

Similar in sound to the first one, still French, and more guitarry and a little lighter but gets a thumbs up from me.

HØRD - "Deliverance"

This may have appeared with a stabby synthesiser riff, not quite Joy Division, but that synthesiser drips like sharpened icicles.

ASH CODE - "Crucified"

This sounds like the song is punching its way out of a metal container, and then it escapes and you are not going to catch it once it has got out.

ARIEL PINK - "Haunted Graffiti"

The sound on this made me think of Suicide (the band not the act) and then it wanders and disintegrates into a number of soundbites made up of odd guitar sequences and dysfunctional choral gatherings.

LAURA KRIEG - "Bureaupathologie"

This was difficult to track down and I just found this live version, A great slice of doom-laden post-punk.

VOID VISION - "Not Much of Anything (Alternate Mix)"

Very mechanical almost inhuman, but I am not sure what kind of intelligence this is. The synthesised keyboards sounding like some menacing ghost Celeste.

HAUS ARAFNA - "Satanas & Friends"

A soundtrack for some post-Armageddon derelict Eastern European ghetto. And by now you be sort of expecting to be hit by something like this.

MOTH - "Frozen Tears"

More stabby synthesiser drenched in block chords.

MUSHY - "Faded Heart"

Juli actually chose "This Morning" for her playlist but I could not find that in any form anywhere. "Faded Heart" is as gothically monochrome as its accompanying video, with vocals that echo as though they were recorded in an oubliette.

STILL - "Shadowplay"

Frusciante, Flea and Klinghoffer cover Joy Division.

Afterlife's Disease

23 seconds of madness I haven't a clue really.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - "Red Right Hand"

Dr. Seuss and Nick Cave? Two great tastes that taste great together? Sure. Why not? The first uncommissioned song used in "The X-Files".

The Birthday Party - "Release The Bats"

Coming on like a pack of crazed Goth zombies, a little early Nick Cave madness for you.

The Cure - "A Forest"

Using a traditional instrumental set up this song is so ominous. Too fast for a funeral march, but creepy as hell.

Fad Gadget - "Back To Nature"

Sounding like it is set in a dead jungle of diseased trees, a funereal-paced slice of post-punk doom complete with electronic terror birds squawking throughout.

The Snake Corps - "...This Is Seagull"

An odd title conjuring up a bird floating above a dead dark sea. Jangling dark guitars make this an incredible instrumental piece.