26 February 2018

Good evening.

LA Salami - Jean Is Gone
A new track from the London singer/songwriter ahead of the release of his second LP, The City Of Bootmakers.

CTMF - Something's Missing Inside
The latest single to be taken from the Brand New Cage album.

Liines - Shallow
Onto their second bassist, but losing nothing in the process, here's the new single from the Manchester rockers.

Otherkin - React
Highly rated band from Dublin with a track from last year's album OK.

Catholic Action - Black & White
Also carving themselves a niche, these are from Glasgow and the LP In Memory Of came out in the autumn.

Vinyl Staircase - Cherry
Unashamedly 1960s garage revivalist stuff from Dorking in Surrey.

The Wrong Society - Tell Me You'll Be Mine
More garage rock, this time from Hamburg. This came out three weeks ago.

Mary & The Ram - The Cross
To my home city of York now for the new single from the goth-punk duo with production from the legendary John Fryer.

Autonomads - All Roads Lead To Hulme
Manchester ska-dub-punk from the EP All Quiet On The Western Front which came out a couple of weeks back.

Shame - Concrete
Highly-rated, by us and many others, London five-piece with a track from their debut long-player Songs Of Praise. Get on them now.

Insecure Men - Subaru Nights
Ex-Fat White Family man Saul Adamczewski and Ben Romans-Hopcraft are Insecure Men, but come from the total opposite angle. Their self-titled album came out last Friday.

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Cockcrow feat. Siobhan Wilson
Ex-Arab Strapper and Hubbert combine on a new LP, Here Lies The Body, which is due out in May.

MAFF - Hawaii
Some Chilean shoegaze now which a track from the forthcoming EP Melaniña, due out on April 2.

Sonny - The Town & The City feat. Russ Litten
Something that Hull poet Litten posted on his Twitter account. No idea about anything else regarding it.

Mark Pritchard - Come Let Us feat. Gregory Whitehead
British-born, but now based in Australia, Pritchard has taken Whitehead's radio art series Ziggurat - recorded back in 1985 - as the basis for this track from the LP The Four Worlds which is out on March 23.

Soothsayers - Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby remix)
The track Dis & Dat appears on the album Tradition which came out earlier this month, but this remix is available on the digital single.

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3 October 2017

After several unforeseen circumstances and a week on holiday, we're back.

Billy Childish & CTMF - I've Got A Conflicted Mind
Another one from the new album Brand New Cage which came out on Friday. Bit more bass-led than normal.

The Lovely Eggs - I Shouldn't Have Said That
And also a bit unusual, this is a bit harder and fuzzier than usual. It's the title track to the new LP.

ZoZo - NoNo
Another one off the Come Play With Me singles club. Well, we say that, but they're in the process of compiling an LP which will showcase the best in West Yorkshire talent.

Featured album: The Salient Braves - Delusions Of Grandeur
My Alter Ego
They Must Have Seen Me Coming
After a couple of EPs, Matt Bailey and his Salient Braves from Barnsley launch their first album, on the reliable Broken Down Records label. It's wonderfully written and utterly charming indie-pop. Listen below and go buy it.


High Tyde - Young Offenders
Sussex four-piece with an average age of 20 and with something to say about the treatment of the young by society.

The Nightingales - Drown
The new single from the post-punk veterans which made an appearance on the EP Become Not Becoming. Short and to the point.

Los Compadres Del Ande - Le Mecedora
Fisrt of two off new compilation LPs. This is off the new Tiger's Milk one, Andina - Huayno, Carnaval & Cumbia: The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978.

Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
Whereas this is off the new Mr Bongo funk compilation. Originally out in 1981.

Shopping - The Hype
A new one from the Londoners, the first since 2015's Why Choose LP.

Gulp - Morning Velvet Sky
Cardiff duo with the title track from the LP coming out on December 1.

Featured album: The Salient Braves - Delusions Of Grandeur

Evening All (Satchmo's Song)
The closer from the 12" version of the LP (there are extra tracks on the digital version) which shows off Bailey's lyricism incredibly well.

Super Besse - Doroga Domoi
A new track from our favourite Belarusians. This is off the new LP La Nuit which is out in a fortnight.

Four Tet - Scientists
And finally, a track from the new one from Kiran Hebden - New Energy came out last Friday.

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29 August 2017

Evenin'

Little Barrie - Shoulders Up, Eyes Down
The 5th LP soaked in summery vibes, Death Express, from the London three-piece.

The Rhythm Method - Something For The Weekend
Cheeky. Heading for indie-pop stardom, probably.

Palm Honey - Hot Simian Weather
A new track from the Reading band.

Marble Gods - Going Nowhere And Thrilled About It
Glasgow indie-pop from the EP Songs.

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Are You Better Than Me?
Brand spanking new LP from Childish and his band, the fifth in five years. Brand New Cage is out shortly.

Lectures - Peaches
Terrific song from the Kent band with an EP to follow in October.

A Shoreline Dream - Room For The Others
From Denver, these are releasing their new album digitally track-by-track before a physical release when they're done.

Adam & Elvis - Wasting Away
Brothers Patrick and Tom Malone are Adam & Elvis. The LP Through Snow And Small Talk is out on September 29.

Mind Enterprises - Idol
This is Italian producer Andrea Tirone with a very '80s throwback.

Ceiling Demons - Capture Karma
Show favourites with a new track which heralds the new album Nil that comes out on September 22.

Royce Wood jnr - Well Ran Dry
A new track from the Londoner following on from his debut album The Ashen Tang that came out 12 months ago.

Labyrinth Lounge - It's Just Water
Formed in the late 1990s and reformed in 2016, here's something from the new album Porgy.

Black Needle Noise - Neon Noir feat. Dr Strangefryer
This Mortal Coil founder John Fryer is Black Needle Noise and his new album Lost In Reflections features a whole variety of guest vocalists.

DAF - Als Wärs Das Letzte Mal (Boize Noize remix)
This remix of the 1981 track by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft appears on a retrospective compilation Das Ist DAF which is out on September 29 by way of marking their influence on German music and EDM in general.

AG Cook - Windowlicker
And here's a tremendous cover of the Aphex Twin classic that Cook unleashed on an unsuspecting Green Man festival because his set clashed with Richard James's and so he brought a bit of that to his audience.

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3 May 2016

I refuse to believe it's May already.

Eat Fast - Stammer
Sleazy lo-fi rock from a mystery outfit formerly known as Eat until a clash of names forced a change. New single, out now.

Frankie Cosmos - Sinister
Greta Kline - daughter of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, fact fans - records as Frankie Cosmos and does it very pleasantly. Her latest LP is Next Thing and came out early in April.

Iyesaya - Monster
Tackling mental health stigma in song is Dorset's William Dop in the guise of Iyesaya.

Featured album: Recordiau Prin - Iechyd Da
Stuart Kidd - If Fingers Were Xylophones
Nat Lyon - Freckles
Iechyd Da is a compilation of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci songs recorded by other Welsh DIY artists. Incredibly, it's free! And well worth your time downloading. Gorky's made some great records and all the artists featured on this LP treat those songs with love and care. Tremendous work by all involved.
Get it from bandcamp.

Wild Billy Childish and CTMF - A Song For Kylie Minogue
More of the customary brilliance. I do hope those stories are true and Beck is a nob and Kylie is lovely. The album SQ1 is forthcoming. Consider it ordered.

Kingsley Chapman and The Murder - Ghost
Another new track from one of our favourites at the moment.

Kaninchen - Shown On The News
Huddersfield artist using vocal loops to create her sound. The name means rabbit in German.

Keel Her - Fantasy
A cover of a Paul Nova song from Rose Keeler-Schaeffler taken from a split 7" with Claire Cottrill.

Something Anorak - Shake Fist At Sky
Another split 7", this time with Gorgeous Bully.

The Bin Bags - Church For Psychopaths
Featuring Keel Her again, this is off the LP The Bin Bags which came out late March.

Featured album: Recordiau Prin - Iechyd Da
Bad Mood - Waking For Winter
Lovely interpretation of one of Gorky's best.

Seazoo - Telephone Jones
More Welshness from the EP Jumbo.

The Limiñanas - Garden Of Love
To the lovely city of Perpignan now. The new LP Malamore came out a couple of weeks ago and features Peter Hook on bass and vocals.

Tea Street Band - Feel It
Marvellous stuff. Their second LP is due out later in the year and this will feature.

Nathan Melja - No, No, No
Title track from the new EP from the Parisian producer which is due out on May 13.

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12 April 2016

Really rather pleased with this week's selection. Let's dive in.

The Big Moon - Cupid
Kicking off with a four-piece from that there London. Recently signed to Fiction, this single comes out on May 13. They're touring. Be sure and catch their sunshiney indie pop.

Burnt Palms - Over
From what sounds like a lovely place - Seaside, California - this was on the LP Back On My Wall which came out in February. Gets better with repeat listenings.

CTMF - Escape To Argentina
The B-side to their February single You Lied. Better song for mine. Consistently brilliant.

Featured Album: Words And Music By Saint Etienne
Tonight
I've Got Your Music
There just isn't a band or artist that purveys a more perfect pop sound. This is the album from 2012, their eighth studio LP and last to date. Joyous. They just keep ploughing this furrow that no-one else seems capable of. Yes it's pure pop, but it's far more intelligent than standard talent show fare.

Kassassin Street - Hand In My Pocket
Speaking of disco-infused pop, here's the new single from Portsmouth's Kassassin Street, a band we like a lot round here.

Charles Bradley - Ain't It A Sin
A man who made his name as a James Brown impersonator, but now a soul legend in his own right. The LP Changes came out on April 1 and it's no laughing matter. Brilliant stuff. Got to dance.

Palehound - Molly
A bit older, this one. Off the LP Dry Food which came out last summer. Love the driving bassline, powering it along.

Dead Belles - This Machine's Electric
Another one with a tremendous bassline. A debut single from this London group with an EP due next month.

John Grant - Voodoo Doll
We like the big feller a lot. This is the new single from last year's Grey Tickles, Black Pressure LP.

Massive Attack - Voodoo In My Blood
Keeping the voodoo theme going... Nobody expected new stuff from these when this landed. Young Fathers feature.

Featured Album: Words And Music By Saint Etienne
DJ
There is nothing about this track or this band that I dislike or think could be improved upon. This album is probably their best yet.

The Mouse Outfit - Step Steadier feat. Fox
Really good stuff from Manchester. Soulful beats underpin this track off last year's Step Steadier LP.

Alex Banks - Paraffin feat. Joel Dawes
A free download from the Brighton producer. Check the Soundcloud playlist below for details.

Explosions In The Sky - Infinite Orbit
From Texas, the LP The Wilderness has the feel of an ambient experiment. Except for this track, that is. Those drums draw you in.

Gordon - Coelacanthe (Vessels remix)
French producer Gordon has his track remixed by Leeds electro-geniuses Vessels with outstanding results.

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9 December 2014

Not feeling so great, so more tunes and less waffle. Relief for us all there.

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - The Wild Ride of Ichabod Crane
If you're going to a play a zingy intrumental, do it up top I always reckon. Off a compilation from Garage Punk records called Garage Monsters that came out in 2012. I must do an all-instrumental show one day.

CTMF - It's So Hard To Be Happy
From the forthcoming album Acorn Man, which is sure to be good.

The Invisible Band - Circles
A great piece of songwriting from this trans-Northern outfit. The new EP is called Never Thought About It and you can stream it on Soundcloud.

Cover Version Corner
The Clash/Tijuana No! - Spanish Bombs
I've been learning a bit about the Spanish Civil War lately. Anyway, the Clash from London Calling in 1979, then a Mexican band from Tijuana with their version from 1994's Transgresores De La Lay. Offenders Act to you and me.

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - Where No Eagles Fly
Him from out of The Strokes with a side project. Bit mainstream for me, perhaps, but I quite like it. I think.

Faerground Accidents - We Hate The Same Things
Looking forward to big things from these in 2015. Remember where you heard them first. This is the flip side from the double-A with the sublime Back In Town.

Baby Strange - VVV
New single from these. I know it's out now, I know they're from Glasgow and that's it.

Memory In Plant - This Love
To Tel Aviv now. An Epic Triumph is the album which came out in August.

Firestations - French Caves
Also out in August on the long player Never Closer which came out on Waltz Time records.

Lee Negin - Just Saying...
Been after playing this for ages. Lee Negin is from San Francisco but now based in South Korea. This is off the album The Chhez Chronicles vol V which came out in July. It's an absolute joy.

One Degree of Separation
The Cure - A Forest
Haunted House - Lost In A Forest
Haunted House are a collaboration between Lianne Hall and Paul Hartnoll who now presumably has a lot of time on his hands. That's their debut single. Before that, from the 1980 album Seventeen Seconds.

Jonnie Common - Better Man
Another one I've been waiting for a while to get hold of, this is brilliant. Reminiscent of Arab Strap, this is off the wonderful album Trapped In Amber. Go get it.

The Soundcarriers - Boiling Point
Another one from their album Entropicalia which will be sure to be bothering those end-of-year lists. Terrific.

Jane Weaver - Argent
The former Kill Laura singer is back with a new album called The Silver Globe. Lovely psych-type vibes and a Stereolab-ish feel to it all. Just lovely.

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4 November 2011

Early nights, cold nights... Cosy up with this week's selection.

CTMF - Zero Emission
Who needs records longer than two minutes? Given I have several over six minutes... Anyway. The B-side to their recent 7" Punk Rock Enough For Me, which I think I prefer.

Beau - The Night Before Trafalgar
I heard an acoustic version of this a couple of weeks ago, but this is the original from the 2012 album Fables And Facades.

Vision Thing - Living With Ghosts
Liverpool alt-folk band whose new LP is called Hauntology. I'll declare an interest - the bassist is a friend which is how I came across it. Still wouldn't have played it if I didn't like it.

Cover Version Corner
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds/PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand
PJ Harvey's version may be familiar to viewers of Peaky Blinders, which I understand is on television. Before that, from 1994's Let Love In.

Curxes - Valkyrie
Pronounced Curses and off a forthcoming album called Verxe, which is annoying. The music however, is fantastic. More of this please.

Ωracles - Melt Tonight
To Berlin now and another daft name, albeit replacing a letter with a Greek semi-equivalent rather than the wrong letter. Off their debut EP Standford Torus. 

The Horn The Hunt - Find It Free It
Bit closer to home now - Leeds to be clearer. Off their latest LP Terrafidella which is out now.

The Unfortunates - Margate Sands
There are a few bands called The Unfortunates. These ones are from London and this is off an EP called For Boys With One Track Minds which came out in August.

Ghost Society - Under The Sun
To Denmark now and a great track off an album called The Back Of His Hands, Then The Palms. No, me neither.

Hopeku - Ambush
Canada now, Quebec more precisely, off an EP called Kosoku, all of which I got through without tripping over my own tongue.

One Degree of Separation
Barcelona - Kasey Keller
John MOuse - Robbie Savage
Retired footballers for this week's. Exquisite story-telling from Cardiff's John MOuse off his current LP The Death Of John MOuse. Before that, from 2000 off the album Zero One Infinity.

Shift Work - Scaled To Fit
I know I've played this before, but so what when it's this good. Seriously, as good a track as I've heard in years.

Hells Kitchen - It's Not For Me
And we round off this week with this from Krasnodar in Russia. Reminds me a lot of mid-period Underworld which can never be a bad thing. The album is called Letters and is out on Festival Lounge.

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23 September 2013

Back again. Bit of a struggle to get it down to a manageable show, such is the amount of great stuff about at the moment. Anyway, here you go:

The Primitives - Spin-o-rama
You'll remember these from their 1988 hit Crash which is still great. Well they reformed in 2009 and their second album since then is due out next month. It's also called Spin-o-rama. It's like they were never away.


Crybabycry - Go Go
This is Jonny Firth from house favourites Knuckle, only this time alongside Rosie Doonan and Nici Todd to produce something quite remarkable. A real beauty, this.

Super Besse - Приказано Забывать
One of the best things I've heard in ages. This is the first Belarussian band we've had on the show - they're from Minsk - but beyond the fact that Super Besse is a ski station in France and the climb up to it has been used in the Tour de France I don't know a lot about them due to my inability to speak Russian. The title translates as 'ordered to forget'. Thanks to Google Translate for that. Band of the week.

Cover Version Corner
Gershon Kingsley/Caustic Window - Popcorn
Probably better known is the version by Hot Butter, but Gershon Kingsley - Goetz Ksinski from Bochum - composed it. That's off 1969's Music To Moog By. Caustic Window is one of the names Richard D James - Aphex Twin - has recorded as. His version is off the 1992 EP Joyrex J4.

Fat White Family - Auto Neutron
Another track from the acclaimed Champagne Holocaust album which came out last year. Something a bit slower than we've become used to, but showing off their abilities.

Hookworms - On Leaving
Another track from the forthcoming album The Hum which comes out in November. It's not so much a change of direction, as other tracks show things we're familiar with. But this shows that there's more to them.

Thunder Sanchez - I Start Fires
From Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. I found these through the power of Twitter after playing a band called Napolleon a while ago. I don't know an awful lot more than that other than if you're after a wrestling name, you can do much worse than Thunder Sanchez.

The Proper Ornaments - Step Into The Cold
I saw these supporting Toy in Newcastle a while back and they stood up against that standard. Bit of Velvet Undergroundy feel to this, which is rarely a bad thing. It's off the album Woodenhead.

The Hidden Cameras - Doom
From Toronto, this is off an album called Age which came out in January.

Wild Billy Chyldish and CTMF - Punk Rock Enough For Me
If it's punk rock enough for Billy Chyldish, it's punk rock enough for anyone. This is out on a 7" now and will feature on the forthcoming album Acorn Man due later in the year.

One Degree of Separation
The Damned - Love Song
The Cure - Love Song
Two tracks separated by ten years and a common name. First from 1979 and the album Machine Gun Etiquette, then from 1989's Disintegration one of the all-time great songs.

The Allah-Las - Follow You Down
Off the album Worship The Sun which came out last week. A cracker.

Chorusgirl - Oh, To Be A Defector
I don't know much about this other than they're from London, it came out in May and I love it.

Underworld - Birdstar
It's 20 years since dubnobasswithmyheadman came out, which is frightening in itself. There's an anniversary edition coming out with this as part of it - a track that didn't quite make it. It speaks volumes about the album that this didn't get onto the final cut.

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4 March 2014

A bit of time off does you a power of good, eh? It's meant I've missed hakf a week's worth of new releases, but still plenty to go at for this week's show.

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
No reason behind playing this, other than it's ace.Which is kind of the point of this. That's off the 1980 album 'Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables'.

Neneh Cherry feat Robyn - Out Of The Black
Another track off the 'Blank Project' album, this time with Robyn on vocals as well. It makes you wonder what happened in the intervening 16 years or however long it's been. It's a cracking album. Get on it.

Ross Taylor - May The Road Rise
Local lad and Fat Stanley singer does solo stuff. I'd tell him it had a Tom Waits feel to it if I didn't think it'dgo to his head. And I'm delighted to say that Ross wll be coming in to do a live session for us in the not-too-distant future - a new departure for the show.

Cover Version Corner
Webb Pierce/CTMF - There Stands The Glass
CTMF - Chatham Forts, that is - with Wild Billy Chyldish on vocals for their version of the old Webb Pierce classic which came out last year on the album '36 Years Later'. The original before that from 1953. And why not.

Scott Walker- The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Staliist Regime)
One of the great basslines in rock, one of the best subtitles in parentheses in rock. From his fifth album, which everyone knows was 'Scott 4' in 1969.

Magic Arm - Put Your Collar Up
One I've been meaning to play for ages. Magic Arm is Mancunian Marc Rigelsford and this came out last June on the album 'Images Rolling'.

Deerhunter - Back To The Middle
A track from last year's long-player 'Monomania' which I've ad a couple from in the meantime. No reason not to play some more though, just to remind you that it was really good.

Silkken Laumann - House Of Common Problems
Vying for the ttle of my favourite act of the moment, these are from Ottawa in Canada. The album is 'Not Forever Enough'; I've heard it through a number of times now and flippin' love it.

One Degree of Separation
The Lovely Eggs - Food
Bird To Beast - Elephant
That Bird To Beast track, from the EP 'To Lips From Lungs' which came out last month, is getting a fair bit of radio play. I still can't decide if I like it or hat my defences have just been broken down. Before that, The Lovely Eggs from 2012's 'Wildlife' album. Double link klaxon! They're both Lancastrian and both are husband and wife duos.

Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side
They are so much more than Brimful Of Asha. This is off the same album, as it goes - 'When I Was Born For The Seventh Time' - from 1997.

Kele feat Lucy Taylor - What Did I Do?
Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke's solo proect from a couple of years back. This is off the EP 'The Hunter'

Toy - Motoring
Did I mention I went away? Wel I did, to Newcastle, to see a couple of mates and to see Toy at The Cluny. And they were fantastc. Loud and fantastic. So here's a track from their first album for your delectation.

Jim James - State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U)
Another one from a while back that I've not got round to, but worth the wait, I think. It came out just over a year ago on the album 'Regions Of Light And Sound Of God'. Just a stunning track.

Factory Floor - How You Say (Daniel Avery remix)
And we continue to take it down tempo to feed into the following programme with thisbrand spanking new remix of the best track off the Factory Floor album. I like Factory Floor, I like Daniel Avery. So of course this wrks beautifully.

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