As a lot of you recognize, 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 an alternative of simply providing you with a bunch of songs, we need to provide the specifics on why the picks both transfer us or what they have impressed. Hopefully we introduce you to one thing new and perhaps much less homogeneous than what you may have been uncovered to. We’ll hold 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 below are a number of 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 may see it.
- OMD: “The New Stone Age” – Drew our “Haunted Horse” graphic whereas listening to this one. We have to carry that one again!
- The Remedy: “A Few Hours After This…” – One other outdated graphic and never certainly one of my favs however “Sugar Fairy” was born from this tune.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 mentioned, it’s my favourite Remedy 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: “Attractive Eiffel Towers” – My first crush was Anabella and listening to this tune as a teen was a bit a lot to deal with!
- Cocteau Twins: “Wax and Wane” – Identical theme as teenage me, I bear in mind cute goth women carrying 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 effectively.
- Freddie Dredd: “GTG” – One thing about this tune feels actually uncooked and punk. That is what I hearken to if I am within the health club.
- Adam and the Ants: “Prince Charming” – “Ridicule is nothing to be petrified of.” The unique creed of Welcome, that is the place I acquired 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 “Pleasure, Braveness, Humor, Aptitude.”
- The London Suede: “My Darkish Star” – This band is just about inspiration for lots of what I need to create. That is certainly one of my favorites. Bernard Butler’s guitar…
- The Horrors: “One thing to Bear in mind Me By” – One other total inspiration for me. Their evolution as a band from album to album is so wonderful. I had some forwards and backwards with Faris (singer) over video chat about doing a collaboration earlier than this document, however we acquired so busy I dropped the ball on it. Must revisit.
- Skepta: “Man” – Because of this we made a monitor swimsuit and why that’s all I used to be carrying for awhile.
- Taylor Swift- “Wildest Goals”– 1989 is such a great album… each Shane Cox and I had no thought she was so sick. “Wildest Goals” graphic is the results of this one.
- Bloc Get together: “This Trendy Love” – The gradual construct and burn… fuck. Simply the magic I need Welcome to be.
- Lana Del Rey: “Bel Air” – Over the previous couple of 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
