In this ‘Listed’ feature, we get to know the most radicalist up-and-coming stars through a themed list of their top musical picks.

This time, we hand the reigns over to captivating Swedish songwriter Alice Boman.

Emerging with a stream of stunning early singles, Alice Boman later disappeared, retreating into a self-imposed creative exile. Emerging from the wilderness last year with ‘Dreams’, she soon proved that silence can produce golden results.

‘Dreams’ perfectly encapsulates Alice’s appeal. An emotionally potent development of her early, self-recorded material, it finds her ruminating on those hard-to-capture, otherworldly feelings. Following it up with ‘End Of Time’, described by the singer herself as a “wish for someone to let you in, to just let you be there”, she soon established herself as one of the most heart-wrenching voices in modern music. This month, she's dropped 'Heartbeat', an exploratory-yet-intimate depiction of innermost devotion - one that looks set to see her blossom further still as the year progresses.

The haziness of Boman's music ties in perfectly with her ‘Listed’ playlist, which she has crafted around the idea of a bleary-eyed Saturday morning. Fittingly, Alice Boman will play TMR and Hand In Hive’s stage at The Great Escape next Friday 18^th May, in association with CALM. Dive into Alice Boman’s ‘Saturday Morning Playlist’ below, and bookmark it to help you through that post-Great Escape hangover next weekend.

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1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Skeleton Tree’

One of the most beautiful songs I know.



2. Josephine Foster – ‘I’m A Dreamer’

Gentle. Love these lyrics.



3. John Maus – ‘Sensitive recollections’

I love the pace of this.



4. Muddy Munk – ‘En Lea’

This makes me happy and sad at the same time.



5. Lion – ‘You’ve Got A Woman’

Groovy.



6. Beach House – ‘Lemon Glow’

New favourite song.



7. Marlon Williams & Aldous Harding – ‘Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore’

One of the best duets ever according to me.



8. Dean Blunt – ‘50 Cent’

Can’t get enough of this.



9. Nina Simone – ‘Do What You Gotta Do’

Nina, always Nina.



10. Talk Talk – ‘Eden’

Greatness.



Catch Alice Boman at the free Hand In Hive x TMR Showcase on Friday 18^th May at Brighton’s The Mucky Duck.

-Tom Connick