EPISODE 38* | 10/20 Pleasures & Highs and Lows
As Highs and Lows and Pleasures reunite for 10/20, a capsule built on two decades of design, defiance, and deep cultural reference, Alex James and Callum Paul mark the moment with a playlist that captures the era that shaped the collection’s core. This is more than nostalgia. It is a shared mood, a sonic thread that runs through bootleg VHS tapes, festival crowds lost in feedback, and late-night film soundtracks that said everything without speaking. The playlist becomes a kind of emotional score, drawn from the same energy that sparked Big Day Out and Lollapalooza, where bands like Nirvana, Hole, R.E.M., and Smashing Pumpkins did not just play music. They built mythologies.
Curated between two perspectives and one cultural wavelength, the mix plays like a reflection. Part homage, part reinterpretation. It is about memory, but also about the echo of memory. The kind that lingers in fabric, in film grain, in the quiet power of outsider art. This is the sound of 10/20 - imperfect, unfiltered, and completely intentional.
Available for your ears on Spotify and Apple Music now.