New music including David Byrne, Superorganism, BØRNS and Car Seat Headrest on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

Finally, some new tunes have started to flow into the playlist for the show in 2018, with debuts this week from The Breeders and Pale Waves, while the retro alternative set looks back to some college radio classics from the year 1989, inspired by the recent Pitchfork Sunday Review of The Blue Nile’s brilliant “Hats” album. Here’s the tracklist for the full show:

West Of The Fields January 9, 2018

  • R.E.M.- Devil Rides Backwards (Demo)
  • David Byrne- Everybody’s Coming To My House
  • Sofi Tukker- Best Friend (feat. Nervo, The Knocks and Alisa Ueno)
  • David Bowie- Let’s Dance (Demo)
  • Superorganism- Everybody Wants To Be Famous
  • Grimes- Kill V. Maim
  • Wolf Alice- Don’t Delete The Kisses (Charli XCX x Post Precious Remix)
  • BØRNS and Lana Del Rey- God Save Our Young Blood
  • Vera Blue- Give In
  • Susanne Sundfør- Delirious
  • The Walker Brothers- Nite Flights
  • Anohni- Drone Bomb Me
  • Depeche Mode- Home
  • Rhye- Taste
  • The Shins- Dead Alive (Flipped)
  • Belle and Sebastian- Fickle Season
  • The Blue Nile- Downtown Lights
  • New Order- Run 2
  • The Ocean Blue- Between Something And Nothing
  • The Cult- Fire Woman
  • Prince- Electric Chair
  • Nine Inch Nails- Terrible Lie
  • Love and Rockets- No Big Deal
  • BoDeans- You Don’t Get Much
  • Elvis Costello- …This Town…
  • Public Image Ltd.- Warrior
  • Lana Del Rey- Get Free
  • Radiohead- Creep
  • Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds- If Love Is The Law
  • Car Seat Headrest- Nervous Young Inhumans
  • The Breeders- All Nerve
  • Pale Waves- My Obsession
  • Superorganism- Something For Your M.I.N.D.
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg- Les Crocodiles
  • Alvvays- Already Gone
  • Morrissey- Spent The Day In Bed
  • Lucy Dacus- Night Shift
  • El Perro Del Mar- Fight For Life
  • Julien Baker- Claws In Your Back
  • R.E.M.- Bill’s Acoustic (Demo)

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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.