Photo by Holly Lay. 

Within the day of this playlist (rising with Sun by Cat Power and setting with Sun by Caribou) we are windswept, soaked through and flown high into the sky. Don’t let the forecasters fool you; weather is all about metaphors. Music, and the 'sparkles', 'storms' and 'trickles' of music journalism, is littered with references to the changing sky of our emotions and the strangely tangible effect of sound on our souls. There’s no misinterpreting the final curtain of rain in The Smiths’ Well I Wonder or Taken By Trees' gentle percussive sounds. Let yourself be swept away by the music of The Weather Issue. Or play it in the background, like a quiet rain in June.