In 2026 WECB opens a daily parenthesis on time: one song a day, without the anxiety of novelty and without the sterile cult of revival.
A minimal, reiterated gesture that becomes narration. The playlist grows like a sound diary in progress, where the songs – old and new, famous or lateral – do not respond to algorithmic logic but to a critical, emotional, historical sensitivity.
It is not a “motivational” selection nor a nostalgic collection. It's a flow. A crossing of music as a language that resists, mutates, is stratified. Each insertion dialogues with what precedes it and with what will come, creating temporal short circuits, elective affinities, necessary frictions. Songs that have had an impact on an era and others that are still looking for their own form, but which share a tension: to say something that remains.
This daily playlist is an exercise in slow listening in a hyper-accelerated ecosystem. An invitation to put the song – not the trend, not the format – back at the center. To consider music as a continuous flow, not as instant consumption. In the constant noise of releases, WECB chooses persistence: 365 songs, a year of listening, an emotional and cultural map that is built day after day. Without hierarchies, but with memory.
THE PLAYLIST
DAY BY DAY
07 JANUARY
“My Ever Changing Moods” (1984) is the manifesto of mutability according to Weller: white soul, sophisticated pop and bourgeois restlessness. The Style Council signs a nervous, lucid, already politically tired elegance.
06 JANUARY
“E la luna bussò” (1979) is the point at which Bertè stops chasing pop and bends it: nervous funk-reggae, full of melancholy, carnal, body and night. A hit that still pulsates, indomitable.
05 JANUARY
Published in 1983, “Walk Out to Winter” is the sentimental education of pop: Roddy Frame writes like someone who knows that delicacy can be a radical act. Crystalline guitars, luminous melancholy, an intimacy that does not implore but invites. Ageless pop in the middle of winter!
04 JANUARY
“January 2016” is the last gift from Zampaglione's songbook: a sober, singer-songwriter ballad that tells of resistance rather than salvation. Andrea Pesce's piano accompanies without invading, leaving room for adult, conscious writing.
03 JANUARY
Released in 1982, “Save a Prayer” crosses Duran Duran's synth-pop with subtle melancholy: suspended romanticism, nocturnal atmospheres and an emotional tension that remains imprinted.
02 JANUARY
“Cosa è” (1979) by Lucio Dalla with Ron and De Gregori is a journey suspended between hope and melancholy: open melodies and questioning words outline an uncertain but intense, poetic and timeless destiny. What will this 2026 be???
01 JANUARY
“Disco Hi Life” by Orlando Julius (1979) also shines in 2026: elegant and irresistible afrobeat, sunny rhythms that envelop, melodies between funk and soul, and a joy that forces you to move your feet. How can we not start the year better!!!
