PLAYLIST: Equinox 2025 1 [NSFW]
A [NSFW] risqué pop playlist to welcome Spring
It’s 5:01am, Springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, do you know where your children are?
The past half year has weighed very heavily on us here at PD headquarters, as we carry a substantial amount of loss and deep, deep grief. As we come out of the darkness, let us look ahead to brighter, welcoming of the sun, and plant new seeds for our future.
We’re still early in our journalism era, and we bring you a different curatorial side to modern art song. This song cycle can be used on loop. We’ve honored Jeff Sullivan’s memory of his celestial playlists, but move forward with our own style. For Spring 2025, let’s move with gentle support together, playfulness, and volcanic resolve. Electronic, rap, hip-hop, rock, country, house, folk, pop, this playlist is multi-genre, multi-faceted, and fascinatingly queer.
Explicit content - be mindful of your environment and discretion. You’ve been warned!
SHORT EXPLANATIONS:
Underworld - the giants of electronic music you may know notoriously from Trainspotting, "Born Slippy” is merely one song from their expansive catalog.
KNEECAP - a hip-hop trio from Northern Ireland whose tracks incorporate both Irish and English language, make their Coachella debut next month. They also have an incredible indie film that shares their story:
Myles Smith - British singer-songwriter - discovered via TikTok
Lil Nas X - posted 5 new singles last week - this is a bop and authentic
& 7. Dixon Dallas & ur pretty are personas of Jake Hill.
“Even if Dixon Dallas is just a character to market his gay country music, Jake Hill is certainly not queerbaiting in the ways artists have been accused of doing in past decades. The thirsty lyrics in Dallas' songs that get very specific about sexual acts are subversive in the notoriously conservative country music landscape. Some fans have noted that Hill likes to make use of parodies and memes in his music, suggesting the queer lyrics are simply being used to spoof and make fun of the toxic culture surrounding country music. Regardless of his own sexuality and intent, Hill's songs under the Dixon Dallas name are irrefutably gay and homoerotic, and they will definitely get a rise out of homophobic Americans.”
Foxy Shazam - great rock outfit from Cincinnati with new track from their upcoming 9th album, “Animality Opera”
ur pretty - see track 5
Skunk Anansie - iconic British rock band with a 30-year legacy, when Junior Vasquez famously remixed their song “Brazen (Weep)” and Kevin Aviance made it a MainStage event at Twilo in NYC.
allmyfriendsaresynths - Glaswegian outfit
Lola Young - a Pisces track if I ever heard one
Silver Apples - NYC East Village underground band from the 60’s - dig it
Hannes and waterbaby - Swedish pop more here
Alison Goldfrapp - 25 years since Felt Mountain with Moog enthusiast Will Gregory, Alison continues to reign as the “siren of synth”
Gossip - Olympia, Washington formed in 1999, but Arkansas born, this iconic indie trio is doing three shows next month - Boston, DC, Lincoln Center
Giorgio Morodor (Martin Brodin remix) - an unexpected twist on Giorgio Moroder's “I Wanna Rock You,” Brodin flips the original into an offbeat groove.
Shouse - Australian-New Zealand duo with some epic nourishment
The Weeknd - new album
Lovebirds - Extended mix from Defected Records
Étienne de Crécy ft. Damon Albarn - French House pére has a new album
HiFi Sean & David McAlmont - composed two albums within a span of one year - “Daylight” and “Twilight”