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The new playlist opens with Damien Jurado’s ‘Silver Joy’, which features in the soundtrack to the film ‘The Holdovers’, which I watched over the festive break…it has a fantastic soundtrack, and is why Labi Siffre’s ‘Crying Laughing Loving Lying’ also makes an appearance.
Set in 1970, The Holdovers follows Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a curmudgeonly classics professor at a New England boarding school. Disliked by peers and students alike, Paul is forced to remain on campus over Christmas break to chaperone “holdover” students with nowhere to go.
Eventually, he is left with only Angus Tully, a brilliant but rebellious student abandoned by his mother, and Mary Lamb, the school’s head cook, grieving her son lost in the Vietnam War. This unlikely trio forms a poignant, makeshift family, finding common ground and healing through their shared loneliness and personal struggles. I highly recommend it.
As usual, this is quite a diverse playlist, though the tunes are maybe a bit more familiar than usual. It comes in at slightly under two hours and has a feel-good, warm vibe, which was maybe my subconscious trying to extend those moments of uplift I felt when the fog lifted.
Enjoy
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