SundaySongs

The Discover playlist on Spotify is turning out to be pretty great – and I really like ‘Rainbow’ by Kacey Musgraves, that cropped up on it. Enjoy!

I don’t know what algorithms Spotify Discover uses, but I do know that it has an uncanny knack of bringing me beautiful songs that I can’t stop playing. This week, Caitlyn Smith’s melancholy ode to Nashville, ‘This Town is Killing Me’.

Not sure if I’ve included Corinne Bailey Rae here before, but chances are you know her song ‘Put Your Records On’. I enjoy the insouciance of her first album – but her second is extraordinary. Written after the death of her husband, it is a look at grief and love and regret. Here’s the wonderful ‘The Sea’.

I’ve loved KT Tunstall for years – keep listening to the stuff after the famous album people! – and I wanted to share this lovely duet she did with James Bay. Happy Sunday!

Not to be all hipster, but I’ve known about Troye Sivan from before he was famous. He was one of a group of YouTube vloggers I enjoyed watching back in the day – most of them seem to have stopped vlogging now, but it was fun when he started his music career. But also a surprise when it was a success!

His latest album Bloom is out now, and it’s really quite good. It takes a few listens, as it’s pretty subtle – but I recommend ‘Dance To This’ with Ariana Grande. Enjoy!

Dolly Parton is one of those singers who is so prolific that it’s a bit daunting to know where to start. Yes, we all know and love ‘9 to 5’, ‘Jolene’, etc. – but there are albums and albums that I know very little about. But I was going through some of them on Spotify recently, and fell in love with ‘Jesus and Gravity’ – so that’s my Song for a Sunday today.

It’s been a little while since we had one of these – I recently discovered Ira Wolf on Spotify, and this is one of her lovelier songs. Hope you’re having a good weekend!

Portland, Maine by Donovan Woods was on a Spotify playlist and I can’t stop listening to it. It’s sooo goooood. And the lyrics are rather beautifully poignant too.

I love Tori Amos, of course – that can’t surprise anybody who knows my taste in music. But I haven’t listened to her latest two or three albums all that much – and gave Unrepentant Geraldines a few spins recently. And so I wanted to share ‘Wild Way’, which is lovely, and has been on solid repeat…

This was one of Ali Smith’s choices when she was on Desert Island Discs, and I love it – it’s a Gaelic version of The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’: