On This Track: Midweek Listening #14
Five tracks moving between bodily intuition, punk-rock urgency, musical rebellion, family history and the warmth of analogue sound.
This week’s On This Track Midweek Listening 14 selection brings together artists working from very different places, but each with something to say about the worlds they inhabit. Eveliina turns inward, The Lucky Eejits channel personal upheaval into fast, direct punk rock and Quinton Barnes questions what it means to inherit a musical tradition. Prinz Grizzley looks to his grandparents’ lives for stories that still resonate today, while Gearbox Records brings a collection of recordings closer to their original source. Five releases, each with its own way of making sense of the past and present.
Eveliina - “Talking To My Body”
For Finnish artist Eveliina, “Talking To My Body” marks a return to something that can easily get lost in the demands of everyday life: the feeling of being at home in your own body. The track grew from her experience of rediscovering femininity, sensuality and creativity after motherhood, when parts of herself had felt as though they had gone into hibernation. But Eveliina’s idea of sensuality reaches beyond sexuality. It lives in small, familiar moments: putting up her hair, reading bedtime stories, dancing alone, or sharing the unspoken understanding of women in a public sauna. That personal perspective finds its way into a groove-led pop track built around colorful synths, expressive vocals and a playful, rhythmic hook. The verses move through a more ethereal space before the chant-like refrain takes over, with the final verse shifting into Italian. Eveliina’s background as a fiction writer is present in the song’s storytelling, as is her interest in the tension between the mind and the body. In a culture increasingly reliant on devices to tell us how we feel, “Talking To My Body” asks what happens when we stop listening to ourselves.
🎧 Stream “Talking To My Body” by Eveliina on Apple Music
The Lucky Eejits - “Nightmare”
Oakland punk rock ’n’ roll quartet The Lucky Eejits return with “Nightmare”, the title track from their forthcoming four-song EP, due in spring 2027 via Hey!Fever Records. The song pairs catchy riffs and an anthemic edge with the kind of scrappy, fast-moving energy that keeps punk rock immediate. Its inspiration comes from a period of major personal changes for the band, experiences that also gave the upcoming EP a shared thread. Frontman Casey FitzPatrick says the group had been working on “Nightmare” for some time, making its release a welcome chance to finally put the song out into the world. For the new EP, the band chose a short, hard-hitting format that felt right for where they were at the time. The accompanying music video brings the track into focus, while the record itself promises four songs connected by the changes unfolding in the members’ lives. “Nightmare” doesn’t dress those experiences up; it puts them into a direct, energetic punk song that gets straight to the point.
🎧 Stream “Nightmare” by The Lucky Eejits on Apple Music
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Quinton Barnes - “THE KIDS KILLED FREE JAZZ”
Quinton Barnes’ new single and forthcoming seventh album, "THE KIDS KILLED FREE JAZZ", takes on the expectations that followed the sonic shift of his previous record, "BLACK NOISE". After moving into free jazz, noise and footwork-inspired territory, Barnes found himself being measured against the legacy of free jazz and its defining figures. The new title is both a provocation and a response: a way of acknowledging that history while refusing to simply reproduce its forms. Made with eight musicians from Canada’s experimental and improvising scenes, the album brings Barnes’ sample-based electronic work into contact with live performances. He recorded the players separately, then cut and arranged their contributions into hip-hop, footwork and club tracks - a self-described “simulacrum of a band.” The title track began with a sparse drum loop and a droning horn sample, eventually becoming the album’s thesis. Across three acts, the record moves from dense ensemble writing toward club music before ending with a voice and acoustic guitar. "THE KIDS KILLED FREE JAZZ" is out February 12, 2027, on Black Rave Records.
🎧 Stream “THE KIDS KILLED FREE JAZZ” by Quinton Barnes on Apple Music
Prinz Grizzley - "Tilda"
Prinz Grizzley, the musical project of Austrian songwriter Chris Comper, has always drawn from the sounds of Americana, alt-country, blues and folk. But on his new album "Tilda", he moves closer to home. The songs tell the stories of his grandparents, following their lives through war, loss and the difficult work of starting over. Each track captures a different chapter and while these are stories from another generation, the uncertainty running through them feels familiar today. The sound is more stripped back and intimate than on his earlier work. There’s less of the wide-open Americana landscape and more room for the weight of the stories themselves. Comper doesn’t turn his grandparents’ experiences into romantic tales of hardship. Instead, "Tilda" holds on to both the fragility and the strength found in their lives. The album cover offers a striking image of that same feeling: a Ford Pinto and a motorcycle parked in front of the enormous eruption of Mount St. Helens. An ordinary moment caught just as the world changes around it. It’s an image that could almost belong to the album’s own stories - life carrying on, even when nothing feels certain.
🎧 Stream “Tilda” by Prinz Grizzley on Apple Music
Gearbox Records - "Reel-To-Reel Tape Editions"
Gearbox Records has announced a new Reel-To-Reel Tape Editions series, bringing a selection of its catalogue to tape for the first time. The London label has long placed analogue recording at the center of its work, from its specialist studio - home to seven reel-to-reel machines - to the recovery and release of recordings that might otherwise have remained unheard. Now, the label is making its professional master-quality tape editions available to listeners and collectors. The first wave includes music by Abdullah Ibrahim, Binker & Moses, Chihei Hatakeyama, Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. The selection spans contemporary experimental work and recordings with their own place in jazz history: Fitzgerald’s previously unreleased Copenhagen concert from 1966, Monk’s 1963 quartet performance in Copenhagen, and Ibrahim’s 2019 album "The Balance", among them. For Gearbox founder and engineer Darrel Sheinman, tape is more than a technical preference; it is the source at the heart of the label’s sound. The new editions offer listeners a chance to hear these records through the same medium that has shaped Gearbox’s approach from the beginning.
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The five releases this week all deal, in different ways, with what we inherit and what we choose to do with it. Eveliina’s return to her body speaks to the pressures of modern life, where even our feelings can become something to track and measure. The Lucky Eejits turn personal upheaval into punk rock, while Quinton Barnes questions whether a musical tradition can remain radical once its language has become part of the establishment. Prinz Grizzley’s "Tilda" brings history into a more personal frame: the lives of his grandparents, shaped by war and uncertainty, are not distant stories but reminders of how easily the ground beneath us can shift. And Gearbox Records’ tape editions raise a different question about preservation - what does it mean to keep music alive and how much does the way we hear it matter? These are records that don’t offer easy answers. They ask us to pay attention: to our bodies, our histories, and the sounds that continue to shape us.
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