Week In Music & Such September 14th- 20th

The Divine Comedy's 'Absent Friends' was stuck in my head a lot earlier this week. The perfect song for these times

Heavenly's 'Modestic' has also been in my head quite a lot lately. What a great tune, especially the drive of the chorus

And Katie Dey's 'Darkness' keeps getting stuck in there too, like for weeks now

Had three, count 'em three, great musical discoveries this week!

High On Stress  - I saw the comparisons to The Replacements and early Soul Asylum and they are not wrong! Great songs. Bought the album today

Told Slant - lovely tunes, looking forward to hearing more

And Emma Tricca. Gorgeous voice, melodies, and arrangements. The last by Colorama's Carwyn Ellis, who I spoke with a few years back about Welsh music for The Quietus and met up with him in a pub in Cardiff to talk more music. Great guy. He was involved in Sarah Cracknell's last solo record too. Yesterday I spent a lot of time listening to Ms. Tricca and today I bought 'Relic' and 'St Peter'. 

I heard Emma on 'Lodge 49', which I've been loving. I was taken in by the Pynchon-esque name and was a bit hesitant after the first episode but I'm glad my friend Michelle convinced me to continue. My sort of thing, full of crazy quests. And they seem to play Broadcast an awful lot. I hope to finish the series this evening. 

Continuing on my Diana Rigg kick and luckily there's some more great stuff on YouTube.

'Theatre Of Blood' with Vincent Price

And one of her first TV roles, 'The Hot House', which is quite odd, though she's very good in it.

And my friend Rick tracked down her TV debut I believe, the 'A Very Desirable Plot' episode of 'The Sentimental Agent'. Aired on November 23, 1963, though I don't know when in relation to 'An Unearthly Child'. She's great in this also, of course.

And since re-reading John Higg's KLF book, I've been thinking about Dada a lot lately. Considering that like Dada, Young Southpaw is an appropriate reaction to a world gone mad. There's some documentaries on YouTube I've got lined up and watch Vic Reeves' one the other night

Week In Music July 27th - August 2nd 2020

Week started off with Lonelady's 'Marble' stuck in my head, as I just saw on Twitter that she had some t-shirts left for sale, and me being in the market for cool new t-shirts - most of mine are years old - I snapped up a Nerve Up one. Looking forward to its arrival. 'Marble', what a tune. Especially that 'ha' section at 3:46





Also discovered on Twitter is Katie Dey, whose new record 'mydata', released on the same day as, I am liking even more than Taylor Swift's. Lovely melodic 'floating in space' synthpop




My friend Jon messaged me about Shabaka & The Ancestors cause Jon knows I dig exactly this sort of thing. A new album came out in March which I listened to as well, though I like the one from 2016 even better




The Church's version of The Triffids 'Wide Open Road' has consistently been in my head this year, and this week was no different. What a wonderful version of a stellar tune





Just listened to Sunshine's 'Sunshine' album again this evening while casting a BaZi chart. I've listened before and I dig it more and more. Discovered them through Letterkenny



My phone was acting up in the car the other day so I hit play on the cd player and The Indelicates' 'Savages' came on. One of my favourite songs of all-time. Gorgeous, and says so much about life, my favourite line being 'the tear on your cheek will fall ignored by the suckers to fake romance'. It's one of those tunes that when it comes on you have to ask yourself 'do I want to go thru the intense experience of listening to this right now? is that something I'm prepared to do?'

You got any songs like that?