Venuses - "Dump Rat (Goddess In Light)". He was slippery as a river. He knocked on a brick wall, ran away when it fell down. He snuck into strangers' photo-albums, baked black-pepper rolls, left fingerprints on churches' new stained glass. His prank-calls made you laugh so hard, so hard, that you became friends and asked him to call for real, for real, as often as he liked. And when he fell in love with Kim, none of that changed. He spoke to her solemnly, tenderly, saying You rule, Bird, like it was a benediction. He called her Bird. He imagined her flying circles around his head. And he kept on tricking spring into summer, kept tossing sugar with salt, kept scoring every improbable shot in the bar's endless game of pool. [Venuses are a new band from Montreal.]

Prinspóló - "Niðrá strönd". J grew up in Mexico City. He went to public school, got bullied in high school, scored a basketball scholarship to college. After earning his B.A., he studied law, passing the bar in five years. Then he glimpsed a need and an opportunity, a feebleness in Mexico's government. He ran for office - just 27 years old, a 6'4" former pipsqueak from Peralvillo. He won in a landslide. He addressed the country on state TV, rallying them to a bright new future, a realm of dream and possibility. He was unmarried and blind. He could speak no Spanish. But his gibberish resonated, it glittered, it told the people, meaninglessly, every single thing they needed to hear. [Prinspóló are from Iceland.]

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As I mentioned on Twitter on Friday, I've released a music-mix for the late May sunshowers. Download here [110mb / 1h17]. Includes tracks by Tindersticks, Julian Lynch, Teedra Moses, Kurt Vile, Ryan Driver, Shlohmo, Colin Stetson, Woodkid, James Irwin, Nicolas Jaar, Wild Beasts and lots more.

(photo from Horses Think)