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And now, Helen McCookerybook and “Records and Tea”; a lovely piece of C81-era indiepop not that far from Tracey Thorn, though it does sound a bit like if one were to write a parody twee-pop song these days.
Some quality shoegazing going down at the Union Chapel, at Daylight Music; isn’t that the Twin Peaks theme?
“Hearing histories of Hammer Hill: Pop music as auditory geography”; an academic paper on the emotive aspects of geography in Jens Lekman’s songs:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458618301038
Interesting essay about Australia’s culture of local and community radio stations, by musician Dave Graney:
https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/opinion/dave-graney-community-radio/
The Quietus interviews Swiss post-krautrock disco-funk duo Klaus Johann Grobe:
https://thequietus.com/articles/25910-klaus-johann-grobe-interview
(Their album “Du Bist So Symmetrisch” was one of my records of 2018: http://dev.null.org/blog/archive/2018/12/31)
Hang on—Parenthetical Girls just released a new record, and it's a tribute to Ivor Cutler? https://parentheticalgirls.bandcamp.com/album/the-scottish-play-wherein-the-group-parenthetical-girls-pay-well-intentioned-if-occasionally-misguided-tribute-to-the-works-of-ivor-cutler
A quite comprehensive interview with @dubstarUK going into detail about their recent album One, the origins of the songs, and the recording process:
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Well, I now have a big steaming pile of words, most of them sentences; I can hew it into a records-of-2018 writeup tomorrow.
22 covers by Rose Melberg (The Softies/Brave Irene/&c.); that is all:
Roundup of current (post/math)-rock from southeast Asia on Bandcamp Daily:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/28/southeast-asian-post-rock-and-math-rock/
This is wild: a guy from LA faked a band (hiring session musos), faked footage of packed gigs, created a fake booking agency, and landed a tour of Europe. None of the 100s of ticket buyers showed up, of course, and then the shit hit the fan: #rockfraud
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TDM (twee dance music)
Another Sarah Records tribute compilation; this time from a number of Italian bands. No, I haven’t heard of any of them either …
There’s a Balearic/chillwave cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” playing in this bike shop. As far as Balearic/chillwave shop mood music goes, it’s not bad.
New playlist: ETSXMIIUC:
Can’t hear the music over the bantz of the troika of hipbros standing in front of the stage. #hackney
Are The KLF about to unearth (fnord) their lost/unfinished metal album The Black Room?
http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2018/10/the-black-room/
Interview with Matt Haynes about Sarah Records:
http://fadeawayradiate.com/2018/10/interview-with-matt-haynes-from-sarah-records/
Jean-Michel Jarre: how we made Oxygène:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/16/jean-michel-jarre-michel-granger-oxygene
New Infinite Works: an internet radio station broadcasting generative music, by William Doyle (formerly of East India Youth):
I comment about music here, and other things elsewhere.
LDN ← MEL
Joined Apr 2018
