Radio LBB: The Bits In-Between

I’ve been feeling very nostalgic for my dearly departed CD collection lately. Curated throughout my teens and then recklessly discarded in my '20s (I realise now, a bad decision!). There was something special about the ritual: choosing a handful of releases per month to pore over and absorb again and again until every tiny detail, note and texture felt completely familiar.

Recently I’ve gone back to some of these records and acknowledged the more obscure moments that artists would include around the 'proper' songs - not the singles or the crowd-pleasers (these never really went away), but the bits in-between, forgotten but now instantly familiar again as I listen back today.

In some way I think these are the tracks that meant the most to me and still do. They disrupted momentum, reset moods, or pulled the listener briefly off course before re-establishing the album’s flow. They changed the emotional impact of everything that came before or after in a very cinematic way.

So here’s an odd little playlist of some of those moments; interludes, sketches, deliberately un-evolved ideas, beats, weird experiments that cushioned the hits around them. It’s a selection based on personal listening experience rather than necessarily artist intent, but in an era where music is so available and easily skimmed or skipped, these small, strange decisions feel worth celebrating.