There’s a kinda dignified quietness to this mix given to us by Lust For Youth. Makes sense. You only have to listen to a track like Sudden Ambitions – lead single for new album Compassion, released last week – and you’ll hear a perfect distillation of that very unobtrusive, euphoria-informed-melancholy that made New Order such a perfect fit for post-Joy Division Manchester, and Lust For Youth such a perfect fit for a post-Sarah Lund Copenhagen. It is, by their own design, Music To Shop To, and with it’s largely word-less ambience there’s a hint of the kind of intellectual muzak you’d expect to hear piped over the tannoy in Ben Wheatley’s recent High Rise. Like Brian Eno’s Music for Airports – which when eventually played in an airport caused people to complain of a sort of needling but indescribable anxiety – whether we’d want to shop to it is another matter. “This is a mix for when you’re out shopping, but the goal with it is to forget why you went out and save your money,” says the band’s ice-cool frontman, Hannes Norrvide. “It’s music that I’m currently listening to and maybe one or two old favourites. Enjoy.”
Tracklist
Martin Rev – Mari
CTM – Cézanne
Tor Lundvall – Humidity
Brigitte Fontaine – L’auberge
Orphan Ann – Untitled Excerpt
Pan Sonic – Johdin
Vivenza – Servomecanismes
Lundin Oil – Peeled Of Faces
PNL – Le Monde Ou Rien
Drew McDowall – Convulse (excerpt)
KLF – Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul
Compassion, the new album by Lust For Youth, is out now. The band play London’s Moth Club on 22 April.