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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 25 April 2015 CE
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The Drink – Company. The album (in fact a compilation of EPs) came out right at the end of last year, but only became aware of them a couple of weeks ago when I saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzhig_MTEOI which I really hope you watch because it’s One Of The Best Songs I’ve heard in ages, a deliriously brilliant mash-up of Slint, Throwing Muses and Mellow Candle. The album has a few other goodies, but really, this is The One. And then by a bizarre coincidence, I see that they’re playing my local pub for free. Singer/guitarist Dearbhla Minogue is a real talent, despite being seemingly embarrassed by her chops, which are plentiful – the last non-album song of their main set featured a great extended piece of exploratory guitar which she played turned away from the audience.

Jane Weaver – The Amber Light. Companion album to The Silver Globe. Nice, couple of very Broadcast-y tracks plus remixes, the pick of which is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-b1Fzh4Jk8

Van Der Graaf Generator – After The Flood. The BBC sessions album. Pretty exhausting if you listen to it all in one go ;-) but an essential purchase for fans. On first listen, I reckon ‘Darkness’ (71 session), ‘Still Life’ and ‘When She Comes’ top their official versions.

Jackson Scott – Sunshine Redux. Another one of these 12 year old neo-psych bedroom auteurs. Half is nonsense, half is actually pretty bloody good: https://soundcloud.com/bloodmoss-records/jackson-scott-ripe-for-love-official-single

Huntsville – Pond. From the endless production line of drone/improv/what-the-hell-let’s-call-it-krautrock/imaginary movie soundtracks. Bits of it OK, but hard to think of a reason to play it again.

GNOD – Infinity Machines. Lasts about a week, but yes, there’s a lot of compelling stuff here. The voices bizarrely keep making me think of a jazz/ambient/industrial take on Dark Side Of The Moon.

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Vol. 2. If you only buy one global psychedelic jazz album this year…

Unfiled pile:

Bob Mould – Beauty and Ruin. There’s at least a couple of cracking tracks on this, up there with Husker Du (which is the kind of comment that Mould probably punches walls to): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMg883LNsM

Smoke Fairies – s/t. I don’t know, maybe this could have done with some pruning, and there’s times you wish they’d just Go For It a bit more, but it’s still a great album. Found myself welling up like an idiot to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YixON9Z-PwY

Dans Dans – 3. Belgian noir jazz twangers, getting an official UK release in a couple of weeks’ time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AcYShjzFY

Purson – The Circle And The Blue Door. A couple of so so tracks aside, I really enjoyed revisiting this. It’s shamelessly archival, but done with real verve, and Rosalie Cunningham has a great voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLc1-j9fNik

Random video clip of the week:

Shock Headed Peters – ‘I Bloodbrother Be’. Done for some 1980s arts show, priceless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MisfJux-dek
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