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Cut Deeper 8/1/18

It's monday, so here's your dose of 7 deep cuts to go through the week with.
1Pink Floyd
The Wall

Nobody Home

A minor detour on the album, but somehow just as striking (and maybe even more) than many of the often remembered cuts on this epic. Its atmosphere of solitude and absolutely melancholic instrumentation come together into something so hard to describe. It's an act of utter desperation and it is bone-grindingly haunting.
2Tindersticks
Les Salauds

Put Your Love In Me

Okay, this isn't really a deep cut of an album, but a deep cut of a whole band's discography. Clocking at over 7 minutes, this is one of Tindersticks' hands down best tracks. And it's strange, considering it was made specifically for a mediocre French thrillless thriller. The movie Les Salauds was a staggeringly confusing bore, but the song was indeed beautiful. It's haunting, but raunchy. So don't wait and check it out.
3Elbow
Build A Rocket Boys!

The Night WIll Always Win

I never really played that game of "My Favourite Artist". I always just assumed that I listen to whatever there is without a preference in any particular artist. But as the time goes on, a small thought kept on creeping up in my mind time and time again. That thought stated that there is a handful of artists I am yet to experience in a bad light. And so I found out that much to my surprise and without any intention to, I feel an incredible fondness of bands like Elbow. They have not yet released anything close to disappointing to me and listening to their music is always a guarantee of having a great time. So if I ever considered boiling together a list of my favourite artists, Elbow would not be amiss.
And the song? Well, that's just the ne and only example in the human history of a song with literally only one piano chord actually sounding great and not kooky-silly.
4Thelonious Monk
Monk.

Teo

In Jazz, it's quite hard to tell where a hit ends and deep cut begins. At least to me, to be fully honest. But when it comes to Thelonious Monk, there is only a hit. Putting this song on here feels more like a formality, than a careful choice. His music is bright and colourful. It doesn't suffer from a disorganisation many songs and records of the sort do, instead it strikes with a beautifully linear structure, while still maintaining that typical Jazz waviness. Teo is here, because it needs to be everywhere. And you will now have it in your lives too.
5The Pillows
Please Mr. Lostman

Today, She...

At first glance, or listen, this song feels like a usual cheesy Indie Pop-Rock tune with its easy-going melody and rather simple instrumentation. But may it be the Japanese entourage in charge of it or there reall is something subtly magical underneath, it just feels otherworldy. So odd, and yet so simple at the same time.
6Felt (UK)
Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty

Cathedral

Obligatory Post-Punk entry on the list, this time for the good people over at Felt. I've seen their name come up quite many a time in recent conversations I had with people or ones that I observed and it warms my heart to see people still keep them in their minds. And not only will I try and point out a noteworthy song, I'll also try to do it with a noteworthy album that often gets lost amid the greatness of others, but is still beyond praiseworthy. It is also somewhat difficult establishing the difference between a regular cut and a deep cut on here, since it only contains six songs. Still, I chose Cathedral for its slowly pulsating and engrossing atmosphere. Engrossing through the musical repetition and slow descent into the pit of musical despair, not through bombastic instrumentation. It's exactly as one could wish something like this to be, soft, but creeping, and vague, but with a mouthful of ideas.
7Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five
The Message

You Are

A sublime mood-setter. This song is a sudden cut of vocal and piano beauty among the remainder of groovy, get-your-feet-movin' Hip-Hop extravaganza. It doesn't even feel like it belongs there, because even all the other similar tracks still have that Funk-y vibe to it, whereas this cut is just pure emotional waterfall. It's surprising, but quiet. It's riveting, but sophisticated. It's a testament to its time, but stands the test of time.
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