For Hanif, music that some folks would consider ‘dark’ like emo, doom metal, and goth, have helped him find illumination. In this episode, Hanif talks to a master of darkly humorous lyrics, Sydney Sprague, about her debut album, ‘maybe I will see you at the end of the world’ and what it takes to make music at a time when survival feels like a question mark. Plus, Hanif and Sydney make a playlist of songs that’d be the perfect soundtrack to the apocalypse. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-apocalypse
For Hanif, music that some folks would consider ‘dark’ like emo, doom metal, and goth, have helped him find illumination. In this episode, Hanif talks to a master of darkly humorous lyrics, Sydney Sprague, about her debut album, ‘maybe I will see you at the end of the world’ and what it takes to make music at a time when survival feels like a question mark. Plus, Hanif and Sydney make a playlist of songs that’d be the perfect soundtrack to the apocalypse. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-apocalypse
/ Show Notes /
Sydney Sprague’s debut album is maybe I will see you at the end of the world.
Hanif references Sydney’s music videos for “I refuse to die” and “object permanence.”
The book Hanif wrote while living in Provincetown was They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us.
/ Music In This Week's Playlist /
Object Permanence, Sydney Sprague (feat. Danielle Durrack)
Bird is Bored of Flying, Mastersystem
We No Who U R, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Gimme Shelter, Merry Clayton
Some Velvet Morning, Slowdive
Meet You In The Light, With Our Arms To The Sun
What’s Mine Is Yours, Sleater-Kinney
Hell on Earth (Front Lines), Mobb Deep
/ Credits /
Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.