As a lot of you understand, music is a big driver within the Welcome story. So that is the primary of many playlists from the individuals who make Welcome what it’s. As a substitute of simply supplying you with a bunch of songs, we wish to provide the specifics on why the alternatives both transfer us or what they have impressed. Hopefully we introduce you to one thing new and perhaps much less homogeneous than what you’ve gotten been uncovered to. We’ll maintain every playlist 1 hour or shorter to make it a extra curated checklist (1000s of vital songs left off which we’ll get to over time).
Listed here are just a few notes on this one:
- Siouxsie & the Banshees: “Dazzle” – Inspiration for the “Sheep of a Feather” graphic. I don’t even know the correlation, perhaps you’ll be able to see it.
- OMD: “The New Stone Age” – Drew our “Haunted Horse” graphic whereas listening to this one. We have to deliver that one again!
- The Treatment: “A Few Hours After This…” – One other outdated graphic and never certainly one of my favs however “Sugar Fairy” was born from this tune. That stated, it’s my favourite Treatment tune and it by no means made the album it was meant to go on.
- True Physique: “Tv” – Engaged on a graphic now which their entire album is driving. So good from begin to end.
- Bow Wow Wow: “Horny Eiffel Towers” – My first crush was Anabella and listening to this tune as a teenager was a bit a lot to deal with!
- Cocteau Twins: “Wax and Wane” – Similar theme as teenage me, I keep in mind cute goth ladies sporting their shirt rising up and as soon as I lastly heard them it has been in fixed rotation for me ever since.
- Submit Malone: “Goodbyes” – Haha idk, I like this tune as a result of it has far more coronary heart than I’d anticipate.
- New Order: “Ceremony” – Normally the tune I decide after I consider a theme tune for myself. All variations, Pleasure Division and Radiohead as nicely.
- Freddie Dredd: “GTG” – One thing about this tune feels actually uncooked and punk. That is what I take heed to if I am within the gymnasium.
- Adam and the Ants: “Prince Charming” – “Ridicule is nothing to be afraid of.” The unique creed of Welcome, that is the place I bought that. However I do nonetheless actually really feel that. Additionally, “Adam X Garuda” graphic got here from this tune. Lastly, for these within the know, within the video for this tune the dance strikes he does on the finish imply “Delight, Braveness, Humor, Aptitude.”
- The London Suede: “My Darkish Star” – This band is just about inspiration for lots of what I wish to create. That is certainly one of my favorites. Bernard Butler’s guitar…
- The Horrors: “One thing to Keep in mind Me By” – One other general inspiration for me. Their evolution as a band from album to album is so wonderful. I had some backwards and forwards with Faris (singer) over video chat about doing a collaboration earlier than this file, however we bought so busy I dropped the ball on it. Have to revisit.
- Skepta: “Man” – This is the reason we made a observe go well with and why that’s all I used to be sporting for awhile.
- Taylor Swift- “Wildest Desires”– 1989 is such a superb album… each Shane Cox and I had no thought she was so sick. “Wildest Desires” graphic is the results of this one.
- Bloc Celebration: “This Fashionable Love” – The sluggish construct and burn… fuck. Simply the magic I need Welcome to be.
- Lana Del Rey: “Bel Air” – Over the previous few years I began taking day journeys to museums in Los Angeles for inspiration. Lana Del Rey captures the vibe that I romanticize LA to be (particularly rising up close by). This one is especially ethereal.
Jason Celaya – Welcome Founder/Artist
