New music including St. Vincent, Wolf Alice, Japanese Breakfast and Iceage on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from Julien Baker, The Weather Station, Pale Waves, Arlo Parks and Goat Girl on the show this week, while in lieu of a normal retro set I played a block of tunes honoring the late electronic musician and producer SOPHIE, who died in an accidental fall in January, and blocks featuring some of my current musical obsessions, the New Wave-ier side of Japanese city pop of the early ’80s and mid-’80s Italo disco (as seen in the excellent documentary “Dons of Disco”). Here’s the tracklist for the full show:

West Of The Fields March 14, 2021

  • R.E.M.- The Flowers Of Guatemala
  • St. Vincent- Pay Your Way In Pain
  • Japanese Breakfast- Be Sweet
  • Wolf Alice- The Last Man On Earth
  • Se So Neon- Jayu
  • The fin.- Night Time
  • Deep Sea Diver- Impossible Weight (feat. Sharon Van Etten)
  • Dry Cleaning- Strong Feelings
  • The Weather Station- Parking Lot
  • Julien Baker- Favor
  • Death From Above 1979- One + One
  • Iceage- Vendetta
  • The Horrors- Lout
  • Haim- Gasoline (feat. Taylor Swift)
  • Cherry Glazerr- Rabbit Hole
  • Ladyhawke and Broods- Guilty Love
  • Pale Waves- You Don’t Own Me
  • Girl In Red- Serotonin
  • Tkay Maidza- Where Is My Mind?
  • SOPHIE- Bipp
  • SOPHIE- Lemonade
  • SOPHIE- Just Like We Never Said Goodbye
  • SOPHIE- Ponyboy
  • SOPHIE- Is It Cold In The Water?
  • SOPHIE- Infatuation
  • QT- Hey QT
  • Charli XCX- Paradise (feat. Hannah Diamond)
  • Let’s Eat Grandma- Hot Pink
  • Yelle- Moteur Action (SOPHIE & A.G. Cook Remix)
  • Shygirl- Slime
  • SOPHIE- Immaterial
  • Taeko Onuki- Les Aventures de Tintin
  • Taeko Onuki- Carnaval
  • Tomoko Aran- HANNYA
  • Haruomi Hosono- Sports Men
  • Miharu Koshi- Parallelisme
  • Flipper’s Guitar- Groove Tube
  • Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth- Bodysnatchers
  • Akiko Yano- Rose Garden
  • Den Harrow- Future Brain
  • Eddy Huntington- U.S.S.R.
  • Peter Richard- Walking In The Neon
  • Real Estate- Half A Human
  • Sharon Van Etten- On Your Way Now
  • Beabadoobee- Further Away
  • Arlo Parks- Just Go
  • Haim- 3 AM (feat. Thundercat)
  • Cannons- Fire For You
  • Róisín Murphy- Game Changer
  • Jessie Ware- The Kill
  • Molly Burch- Emotion (feat. Wild Nothing)
  • Dry Cleaning- Scratchcard Lanyard
  • Goat Girl- Where Do We Go?
  • Cherry Glazerr- Big Bang
  • Shura- Obsession (feat. Rosie Lowe)
  • Smerz- Flashing
  • Chai- Action
  • Lana Del Rey- Chemtrails Over The Country Club
  • Doves- Cycle Of Hurt
  • The Kills- Blue Moon
  • Future Islands- The Painter
  • The Avalanches- We Go On (feat. Cola Boyy and Mick Jones)
  • R.E.M.- It Happened Today

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Travis Gass

About Travis Gass

I'm an editor on the Digital Desk at the Bangor Daily News. I'm also the host of West Of The Fields, a college radio show that has aired continuously on UMaine's WMEB 91.9 FM since 1998.