Happy Labor Day. Many of you labored on Labor Day. I hope this wasn’t the case, but if it was, I hope you had a good soundtrack. It’s not quite the end of summer, but it might as well be. Hence a playlist that transitions from hyperpop to neo soul. Sure, it ends with some forgotten funk, but something reclaimed from the dustbins of the early 80s is bound to contain some wistfulness that’s settled into the sound. We start with a six song block of Kero Kero Bonito, spanning the entirety of their output. The first tracks are as poppy as possible and the final two tracks give us a glitched social media freakout (“Only Acting”) and visions of wildfires fueled by human carelessness (“When the Fires Come”). That’s certainly a summer to fall arc. KKB hasn’t released a major project since 2021, so hopefully they’re in their winter stage and not permanently closed. Lemuria’s “Christine Perfect” feels like the perfect fall throwback sound. Something Letters to Cleo never released. Let’s throw “He...