New Music - Bon Iver! Etran de L'Aïr! Lady Blackbird! Beautify Junkyards w/Paul Weller! Chrysanths!

Iain and Andrew deliver their opinions on the freshest new music with scalpel-sharp incisiveness on the latest @weheardwonders pod. Indie-folk phenomenon Bon Iver go back to basics, 100% Saharan guitar-band Etran de L’Aïr step into a proper studio for the first time, “the Grace Jones of jazz” Lady Blackbird expands her horizons, Lisbon psych-folk collective Beautify Junkyards team up with Modfather Paul Weller with the sole intention of freaking out Iain, and Chrysanths (aka Emily Scott from Glasgow chamber-pop darlings Modern Studies) does some miraculous things with strings. Something venomous and omnivorous has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).

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Do you remember

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when it was nice.

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Alternate Line: I actually remember the 21st of September. Very, very well, Andrew, do you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Some of it is a bit hazy. But yeah, it was a very memorable night.

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Alternate Line: It was a memorable night as, to quote your good lady, a very, very memorable night because it was our big podcast. Night out. On Saturday

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Alternate Line: out we went. We had lovely big steaks.

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Alternate Line: The stakes were high.

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Andrew's iPhone: They were, and the red wine was bountiful.

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Alternate Line: Red wine was bountiful. Yeah. And we also saw rats in them

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Alternate Line: in Glasgow literally rats. I don't mean like horrible people, I mean actually saw rats. And so, yeah, good night, though good times are had by all.

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Andrew's iPhone: They were, they were, we should say the rats were outside the pub in the restaurant rather than inside.

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Alternate Line: I should have played with that I should.

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Andrew's iPhone: See that!

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Alternate Line: 1st I should have said that.

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Andrew's iPhone: We gave. We gave the the the barman. Yeah, the fear kind of thing. Basically.

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Andrew's iPhone: we're so.

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Alternate Line: He said. There's rats the size of cats, and he quoted David Bowie. He didn't, really. But I wish he had

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Alternate Line: cool. Well, I am Ian. I am Guitarist in Glasgow band. The deadline shakes sometimes, and you can find us on all the social medias at Deadline shakes yourself.

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Andrew's iPhone: And my name is Andrew. I buy records and write about them sometimes on Instagram, at Kadejih, 86.

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Alternate Line: But really, these days, this is this is what we do, isn't it?

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Andrew's iPhone: This is what we do. This is where you'll find us.

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Alternate Line: Yes, this is where you'll find us, and we I guess I'd be remiss to say that we obviously at some point, some months ago we changed to the sort of like series and episodes in a series format of recording how many podcasts we've done just because it gave us a wee sort of sense of like, okay, that's a bit done, and then we'd have a break and come back. And then.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: Forever.

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Andrew's iPhone: This is where we have a baby.

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Andrew's iPhone: Bye, bye.

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Alternate Line: But we've realized that we are ticking on down to to a fairly fairly big milestone for us, because this is correct. Me. If I'm wrong, this is 96, this podcast is number 96.

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Andrew's iPhone: It is. Yeah.

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Alternate Line: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: We're inching up in the century.

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Alternate Line: Yeah. So we're getting to the century and yeah, exciting times ahead. I think we've got. We've got you and I have got big

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Andrew's iPhone: We do. Yep, and I think I'm quite keen to maybe get

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Andrew's iPhone: listeners involved for the 100 flight we did for the 50.th So.

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Alternate Line: That'd be good.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, maybe get some questions in again. And that kind of thing. So that yeah, so maybe get your thinking caps on guys, if there's anything that you'd like us to chat about, or a question that you've you've always thought like, is is he in a secret?

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Andrew's iPhone: The old Hadaway fan, or something like that, you know. There's time to ask.

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Alternate Line: That's a great question. And what shoe size.

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Andrew's iPhone: Where hardware came from.

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Alternate Line: What shoe size is, Andrew? And hopefully, you can. You can contact us in any way that you see fit. So we're on Instagram. We're on X, formerly Twitter.

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Andrew's iPhone: No. Okay.

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Alternate Line: So we're on Instagram. We're on X, formerly Twitter, and you can also message us directly through spotify. If that is your platform of choice. You can actually just message us right underneath where you click on the episode. So feel free to do that, and we will. We'll take your questions, and even try and get a few voice notes from from regular listeners and all that kind of thing

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Alternate Line: which is lovely. So so yeah, we've got a big show this week cracking show this week. We have 5 new tracks steaming heap of new tracks this week, and of course a vinyl word to round it all off. Who we got. Andrew.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yep, we've got some new music from Bonnever.

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Andrew's iPhone: Itron delair

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Andrew's iPhone: lady blackboard.

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Andrew's iPhone: beautify junkyards and Christamps.

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Alternate Line: Yes, a big pile of things that are hard to see, one after the other.

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Alternate Line: That's good, that's always. I always have a wee look ahead and think, well, I just read these out, or will I chuck these over to Mr. Hall?

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Alternate Line: Well, there we go! Right.

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Alternate Line: I'm buzzing about talking about this 1st track, will we just get straight into it?

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Andrew's iPhone: Yes, we we.

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Alternate Line: We? We? Okay? So 1st track is from a kind of an old timer of mine, like an all-time favorite. Bonnever not had new music from Bonnever for a good couple of years. Now.

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Alternate Line: So it's it's about time. And I I do think this is pretty good. So

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Alternate Line: this is space aide. By bonnever.

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Alternate Line: I know now that I can't make good, but how I win!

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Alternate Line: Shackle

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Alternate Line: Nothing's really something now. The whole thing's

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Alternate Line: Oh, what a waste of wood!

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Alternate Line: Nothing's really happened like I thought it would.

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Alternate Line: Wow!

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Alternate Line: Space 8. What do you think.

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Andrew's iPhone: I I'm kind of not sure where to start with this. I'm wondering if we should kind of give up

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Andrew's iPhone: some kind of potted history first, st or did you want to go straight into the track?

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Andrew's iPhone: I mean, it's

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Andrew's iPhone: it's kind of it's very much a return to

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Andrew's iPhone: the sound that we we were initially introduced to Justin burning by, I guess. You know that that 1st album forever forever ago.

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Andrew's iPhone: the the kind of legend that that very quickly built up around that that record and the making of that record.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, you know, it was.

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Andrew's iPhone: It was quite incredible. And for anybody that doesn't know. You know it was. It was.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know, recorded ice with with by Vernon have having his previous band broken up, and then he kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: is fabulous cabin in Wisconsin

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Andrew's iPhone: and came up with these.

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Andrew's iPhone: and really kind of moved the the whole kind of sound of the kind of culture at that point, I guess, towards something that was kind of warmer and woodier and a bit more introspective.

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Andrew's iPhone: and then it kind of inevitably led to

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Andrew's iPhone: some of the more kind of commercially craven and soulless versions of that sound. You know things like Mumford and Sons, I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and while while that sound was becoming more commercialized,

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Andrew's iPhone: acts like the fleet foxes and Vernon himself. They wanted to move towards, you know, something that was a bit different from that.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it will, you know, after that we got quite a few kind of more

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Andrew's iPhone: experimental type records that we can maybe talk about. But but yeah, as I say, this is a kind of return to that sound. I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it it does. It does feel quite refreshing, I think, after after

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Andrew's iPhone: And and it just just kind of reading between the lines as well. It seems like he's kind of in a similar place.

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Andrew's iPhone: and his life

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Andrew's iPhone: It is very spare. It is. It's very lovely. I mean, it's

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Andrew's iPhone: structurally. It's maybe taken some cues from from what he did after forever as well. It's like going back to that sound. But I mean, there's not a kind of obvious chorus here, or anything like that, you know. It's just I think it's like 4 verses.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it is that is that space I key line where it's that's the kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: the emotional kind of climax of the song almost that kind of that vine in the way that he delivers it.

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Andrew's iPhone: when he's saying, What's the sorry? What's the line.

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Andrew's iPhone: Maybe you can still make a man from me here on Space Ikea. So it's just a bit something about the way that he he's saying that, and and the way that he delivers that's the real kind of emotional emphasis of the song, I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: and rather than a cordice.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so I think that that works well.

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Andrew's iPhone: Every time that I've listened to it, especially the 1st time I listened to it, I was. Gonna I'm kind of enjoying the track, and then it just kind of ends. I'm I'm always kind of like surprised at the end so soon.

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Andrew's iPhone: Appears a little bit after that.

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Andrew's iPhone: Good. Yeah. I mean, it does have a kind of more rambling jam based feel to it than something like do mocktail that we've looked at, listened to before.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it says here that whereas other Tuareg guitarists look to Western rock.

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Andrew's iPhone: this group, they're very kind of. It's all about kind of Pan African styles

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Andrew's iPhone: from from where, from where they're from. So so they're kind of pulling in stuff from

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Andrew's iPhone: like of of a kind of African groups and cultures that kind of thing rather than looking to the kind of your kind of Western Pop song structure. I guess so as kind of more like a jam.

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Andrew's iPhone: and more kind of.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that tradition of something that's functional, functional dance music rather than something that's

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Andrew's iPhone: you know, fully expressive, I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: Dogs, the dogs cross each other every so often.

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Andrew's iPhone: Tremendous fun. Yeah.

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Alternate Line: alright! Well done, everyone. So why do I keep saying? Well done, everyone after the review.

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Andrew's iPhone: We're all in this together.

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Alternate Line: Okay. So

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Andrew's iPhone: We have. Yeah. It was a very early podcast. And it was a very kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: memorable one for me. I think it was like one of the one of the

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Andrew's iPhone: earliest times that we were kind of in the room together, and I just remember this, I remember, like I'd put the track, and I had back. I was kind of looking down.

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Andrew's iPhone: I was. I was just kind of want to take it, and I was wanting to kind of like. See what you would think of it, and you could just kind of hear a PIN drop

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Andrew's iPhone: when she was performing that track. But this is something a little bit different that I'm sure we'll get into.

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Alternate Line: Okay, right here we go when the game is played on you by Lady Blackbird.

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Alternate Line: Thank you.

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Alternate Line: If the game is played on you

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Alternate Line: The game is played on you. Does she beat you at your game. Does she have another flame

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Alternate Line: It feels good to say. I told you, Snow, those jeans that you wear should look good on you.

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Alternate Line: How does it feel? Baby

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Alternate Line: Well.

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Alternate Line: when the game is played on you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Woohoo! I've got all the fields

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Andrew's iPhone: and

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Andrew's iPhone: the the 1st the 1st thing that drew me to the debut lp by

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Andrew's iPhone: Lady Blackbird. So Lady Blackbird's an la based artist, and the 1st thing that drew me to her was the sleeve of her debut record. It was black, acid soul, plastered in large blavio.

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Andrew's iPhone: large, wavy orange print

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Andrew's iPhone: with her image hidden within it, and it kind of promised something that was between the psychedelic soul of the late sixties

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Andrew's iPhone: and the moody menace of Black Sabbath's master reality.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and it was. It was a really exciting prospect, and the record wasn't quite that.

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Andrew's iPhone: It was.

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Andrew's iPhone: I had a couple of moments that that had kind of seemingly influences from like Dr. John, and things like that, where we could at least kind of hoodoo voodoo thing going on

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Andrew's iPhone: but for for the the most part it was this really kind of laid back classic

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Andrew's iPhone: feeling record that kind of touched on like jazz and torch songs and old school. R. And B.

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Andrew's iPhone: Giles Peterson had called Lady Blackbird the jazz, Grace Jones.

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Andrew's iPhone: and there was something about. I think it was more about her style

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Andrew's iPhone: and her ability to reimagine a song rather than the sound. Necessarily.

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Andrew's iPhone: But on that record she

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Andrew's iPhone: there were 3 originals and 8 covers, and it was the covers that really kind of sold it. So some were quite obvious in terms of

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Andrew's iPhone: the influence of Irma, Thomas and Sam Cooke, Nina Simone. And then there were some that weren't so obvious. There was things like James Gang. The track that we talked about was the Tim Hardin track that will never happen again, which is just sublime track.

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Andrew's iPhone: and in kind of lesser hands. That that record could have been this kind of.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know. Radio 2 Sunday morning, easy, listening kind of thing, but there was. There's a real kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: sparse, unfussy elegance about the whole thing, and

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Andrew's iPhone: I just I just love that record. I think it was a really special record that had had mass appeal as well, I think.

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Andrew's iPhone: and off the back of that you know she was.

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Andrew's iPhone: She was asked to be on Joe's Holland. She was on a Jamie Cullum Christmas album.

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Andrew's iPhone: And I mean and it it could that that could have been the kind of path that she could have gone down as well with this follow up. So we're like 3 free years on at this point.

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Andrew's iPhone: and we've just got the the follow-up. So the follow-up is called slang spirituals.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it isn't that that kind of, you know. Easy listening

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Andrew's iPhone: jazz standards.

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Andrew's iPhone: album that could so easily have been. And I think that's quite admirable. And so she's collaborating once again with black, acid soul producer, Chris Sea freed.

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Andrew's iPhone: And they've talked about

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Andrew's iPhone: this album being her kind of exploring some of the things that have kind of happened to her since

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Andrew's iPhone: becoming

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Andrew's iPhone: famous, if you like, and getting that kind of musical stardom that she's been looking for.

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Andrew's iPhone: and there's a real kind of move away from covers as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so, in stark contrast to black, acid soul, there's only one track which isn't a Ladybird co-write on this on this album.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that's the one I've chosen to play.

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Andrew's iPhone: So this is.

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Andrew's iPhone: The cover. This

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Andrew's iPhone: and I do.

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Andrew's iPhone: which maybe tells you everything you need to know. No, it doesn't. I'm being mean. And no, I do actually feel a bit bad for choosing this cover, because there's there's a lot of other good stuff on the record. But

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Andrew's iPhone: this is the one to which I'm returning a lot.

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Alternate Line: Suggest that that's possibly because, regardless of the fact that it's cover. This cover demonstrates a huge amount of personality.

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Andrew's iPhone: It does, it really does? I think it is. Yeah, I think it is a kind of very cool, very kind of bold reimagining of the song.

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Andrew's iPhone: and

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Andrew's iPhone: also that this album, the song, would, you know, fit the bill in terms of being on an album called Black Acid soul as well, I think

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Andrew's iPhone: this is the kind of sound that I was imagining all along, I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so the original version of this song was cut by Betty Swan.

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Andrew's iPhone: who we've had as a Vinyl word before.

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Andrew's iPhone: predominantly known as a Southern soul and country soul singer.

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Andrew's iPhone: But her version of this track is a kind of hard, almost black exploitation.

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Andrew's iPhone: funk track, very cool, very fierce song and performance.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I really enjoy what what Lady Blackbird has done with it. It almost feels like a kind of 12 inch reworking of the song.

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Alternate Line: Yeah, yeah. I was looking up that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Like something like Grace Jones would have done like kind of extended intro, extended outro song at the center of it.

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Andrew's iPhone: Some of the kind of dobby effects that are going on with the vocals, especially in the beginning of the track. So

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Alternate Line: Want to appreciate the 12 inch version of Pull up to the bumper by Grace Jones, which is an absolute beast.

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Andrew's iPhone: Absolutely.

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Andrew's iPhone: Unbelievable, and is the suffering of the kind of similar spirit of

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Andrew's iPhone: the incredible interpretations of other people's work that Isaac Hayes did in the late sixties, early seventies as well. So he would like take

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Andrew's iPhone: songs like Walk on by, or something by the Beatles, or by the time I get to Phoenix the Jimmy Webb's track.

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Andrew's iPhone: and he would just totally pull at the corners of it and expand it out until it was this big, symphonic soul, epic kind of thing. So I think there's that kind of again, that kind of spirit there

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Andrew's iPhone: with this track. And I just really enjoy this track. I love the production of it. I love the feel of it. I love the kind of analogue warmth of it.

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Andrew's iPhone: and, as I say, it's black, acid soul, and all of it.

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Alternate Line: Is there any way we could say that Isaac Hayes? Performance as chef on South Park

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Alternate Line: is like Lady Blackbird performing on the Jamie Cullum Christmas Album, really, which is.

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Andrew's iPhone: So.

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Alternate Line: Clearly just for the cash on both occasions. So I'll tell you what I like about this song. You you've given us that in in

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Alternate Line: very, very good detail. There. I love hearing your passion with this track.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, yeah, I was.

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Andrew's iPhone: Hello!

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Alternate Line: No filibustering is, what do we do? What do we do? You know that we're not sure what to say when both of us are speaking in like very short sentences, you know. I mean, we're just like, Yeah, I really liked it. Yep, said that

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Alternate Line: when someone goes off on one, you know that the track is special to them, because I did that the space side as well at the start. But yeah, what I like about this track is 2 things. Primarily, one is that she basically doesn't appear in the track for the 1st 3 min. Sort of really moody diva-ish buildup of tension. You're kind of thinking. Oh, I thought this was like a solo vocalist type record like, where is she?

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Alternate Line: And then when she does arrive, she just sounds really like pissed off.

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Andrew's iPhone: You too.

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Alternate Line: It's great. It's just such a moody like this is a moody track, and I like the plus 7 min element of it is

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Andrew's iPhone: But that.

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Alternate Line: 1st 3 min is really essential in establishing the personality and all that of Lady Blackbird, which is, which is great. Second thing is the latter part, the guitar playing

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Alternate Line: the pace. The guitar sounds as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: Put.

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Alternate Line: Me in mind of Dr. John when you were mentioning.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: Dr. John Elleron and and I know this is going to be a relevant comparison because of a track that's about to come very, very soon. But my 1st introduction to Dr. John

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Alternate Line: was through Stanley Rhodes, the Paul Whaler Record, and the the cover that he did with Dr. John of walk on guilty splinters.

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Alternate Line: and also the track changing man, which is a very like sort of MoD indie.

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Alternate Line: Dr. John, type thing, smash up of things. And actually the ref in this, the descending riff is a little bit like the guitar part and changing man as well. If you haven't spotted it, you'll maybe hear it on a second lesson. But this is really slow. It's moody, and it's atmospheric. And yeah, when the game is played on you, it sounds like someone who's pissed off about you know, someone

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Alternate Line: I don't know philandering or something such as that. Yeah, very good man really really enjoyed this one. I can see why I can see why it's

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Andrew's iPhone: Good. Yeah, I mean, in terms of the album. The album's a very varied listen, there's there's some disco gospel in there. There's finger picked folk. There's some more kind of radio friendly moments, almost like pop soul moments as well as some more orchestrated things.

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Andrew's iPhone: but for me the 2 tracks that really stand out on the record are the 2 tracks that close out each side. So this track closes, it wraps up side a.

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Andrew's iPhone: and then there's a really excellent track of a similar feel to this.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it is a Lady Blackbird original, whatever his name.

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Andrew's iPhone: it's like a 9 min closer, absolutely fantastic as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I kind of wish there was more tracks in that vein on on the album, just because I love those 2 so much.

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Andrew's iPhone: But, as I say, it would have been so easy for us to play it safe with this record. So you kind of got to admire that she's taking risks.

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Andrew's iPhone: She's putting out this wide, ranging record which foregrounds her own writing.

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Andrew's iPhone: And again, I'm sorry, but not sorry that I've I've chosen to cover. But yeah, it's it's not. It's not a perfect album for me, but definitely worth a listen. And I think it might be a grower as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: and yeah, as I say, it's it's admirable that she's gone in this direction, I think.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I'd love a whole album of this style. That would be wonderful.

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Alternate Line: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, but.

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Alternate Line: What if you had like a sort of

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Alternate Line: 40 min intro, where she leaves us waiting, and then just shows up and is pissed off for 3 min at the end.

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Alternate Line: Brilliant. Okay. So Lady Blackbird. Great track. Great to have her back on, man. That must have been when you said that that it was an early one. It must have been.

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Andrew's iPhone: It was actually like the 3rd episode that we did, or something.

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Alternate Line: Oh, yeah. Well, wow. Good. Okay. Well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And we look forward to our chocolate, salted bowls covered as well.

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Alternate Line: Well, here here we are at Episode 96 and

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Alternate Line: you know she's she's obviously gone away for a couple of years and developed and improved, and we've just stayed the same. So there you go. Right. So let's move on to new track number 4.

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Alternate Line: And I did sort of slightly give away.

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Alternate Line: The game, I suppose. So. This is from beautify junkyards

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Alternate Line: featuring Paul. Whaler. I don't know what the belling is here exactly, but it's beautified junk words and and Paul Whaler, and the track is called Sister Moon

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Alternate Line: stood upon the hillside, green pastures below, and all in harmony, and yet in silence, too. Sister Moon, Sister Moon, Sister Moon, sister Moon.

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Alternate Line: Oh.

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Alternate Line: And what of you?

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Alternate Line: This is the moon.

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Alternate Line: Okay, so there is the

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Alternate Line: I don't know. That's almost like music. You'd hear on like a sort of sixties serial killer documentary on Netflix or something. It's got that kind of like Charles Manson.

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Alternate Line: Vibe to it. Do you know what I mean? It's just got that sort of something around that like

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Alternate Line: it really does. It really does. I looked at the track list this week, and I really like Paul Weller. I say that without any shame. I don't care. I do like Paul Weller.

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Alternate Line: And I looked and listen. Oh, Paul! Well, that's very good looking forward to that.

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Alternate Line: Not at all what I expected later.

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Alternate Line: But yeah, really, really enjoyed that track. I think that's I think that's really really clever.

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Andrew's iPhone: Good. Yeah. I mean, we we mentioned the concept hauntology a few weeks ago.

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Andrew's iPhone: In relation to the sound carriers.

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Andrew's iPhone: And this is definitely another act that that kind of works in that slightly uncanny.

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Andrew's iPhone: as you say, spooky, modern, yet ancient.

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Andrew's iPhone: feel in terms of the sound, and their presentation.

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Andrew's iPhone: The jing.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, I mean, I've been a big champion of this at beautified junkyards, actually, for for a while. So the previous 2 records

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Andrew's iPhone: and the 1st 2 records for the ghost box label. So again, they're on the same label as sound carriers were.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, so it's the the previous 2 for beautified junkyards, the invisible world of beautified junkyards and cosmorama

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Andrew's iPhone: were both featured on my end of year roundups of their respective years.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, it's it's a really

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Andrew's iPhone: intoxicating, weird.

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Andrew's iPhone: clever, as you say, trick that they pull off. And there's this kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: there's a lot of kind of carnival-esque bells and flutes and whistles going on.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the way they kind of combine Brazilian folk and the kind of pillowy dream pop. There's these kind of electronic disturbances and a lot of other stuff as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And on this new album that's just come out.

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Andrew's iPhone: And there's a real kind of trip hop, feel as well, I think, to a lot of it in terms of the kind of the beats and the the rhythms and things.

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Andrew's iPhone: Not on this track, but they've got kind of various vocalists, and the female vocals, and a lot of tracks sound very much like Martina Topley Bird.

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Andrew's iPhone: who used to do a lot of stuff with tricky.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so yeah, so there's there's a there's a

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Andrew's iPhone: cool extra elements to this record as well in between times. Jb, Kieran, who's 1 of the the main

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Andrew's iPhone: people in the group. He did a an instrumental ambient synth wave record called Dream Dreaming Eden.

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Andrew's iPhone: and which was kind of playing with a lot of these kind of electronic textures. And again, they've kind of found a way

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Andrew's iPhone: into this record as well.

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Alternate Line: Just say, if I was going to do an ambient synth wave record

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, take something out.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yeah, it could have worked in that. You could. You could tell that was him kind of dipping his toe in, I guess, in terms of

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Andrew's iPhone: doing more of that stuff. And then he's brought it back into the main group with a bit more sophistication, I guess.

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Andrew's iPhone: And

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Andrew's iPhone: and yeah, I mean, this is definitely the most kind of prominent record today in terms of press coverage. And I guess you know, having having Paul weather involved kind of helps with that.

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Andrew's iPhone: M.

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Andrew's iPhone: I can't. I think I can explain it to you. So I mean

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Andrew's iPhone: well, I mean, I'm I'm like yourself. I'm a i'm a Big Paul. Well, Fan as well. I especially like him when he's been a bit more experimental, like some of that stuff kind of especially the kind of post, Stanley Road stuff where it all got a bit kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah. Yeah. But kind of that.

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Andrew's iPhone: People still kind of like tag him with that kind of dad rock thing or trad trad Dad rock thing. And I think that's really kind of unfair, because he is

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Andrew's iPhone: a really kind of a curious musician. I think, in in terms of the way that he kind of goes about things, and he wants to do different things, and he's got impeccable taste. I think you just have to kind of look at the songs that he's covered over the years to

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Andrew's iPhone: to know that he's just. He just knows his onions, I guess, and you know, if he, if he ever recommends something, then I'm always gonna likely to pick up on it

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Andrew's iPhone: and like some of the records that he that he did used to kind of talk about in interviews were things by acts like broadcast.

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Andrew's iPhone: and who who, again, would be kind of like seen as

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Andrew's iPhone: contology adjacent, shall we say? Or and I think they even maybe like, put some stuff out on ghost box.

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Andrew's iPhone: and then kind of off the back of that Weller in 2020 put out an ep

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Andrew's iPhone: through ghost box as well, which is a real kind of curio, really kind of interesting kind of brief but welcome curio, I would say, where he's kind of really. I mean, he's a massive beatles nut, but he's he's really kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: exploring his revolution. Name

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Andrew's iPhone: beatles kind of thing. So there's the kind of radiophonic workshop that he loves as well. So he's kind of living out his fantasies there through that record. So I think it was like a 4 4 track. Ep, so I'm assuming through that his association with that he's, you know, come in with with these guys.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and I think they they would share a lot of influences as well. And you know just music that the the fans of that kind of psych folk and all that kind of stuff. So I think it does kind of make sense.

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Andrew's iPhone: But it's it's I mean, I think this is a cool track, because it's it's a well written song you could see

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Andrew's iPhone: well as craft within it, and it's just got all these extra things going on.

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Alternate Line: There!

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Andrew's iPhone: Background that bring that atmosphere to it.

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Alternate Line: Just before I come back to

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Alternate Line: to to Paul Weller. And on this track I've just. I've just been looking up these discography as you were, you were talking to remind myself of

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Alternate Line: what's all there. And there is. Actually, this guy has made so much music is actually.

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Andrew's iPhone: In.

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Alternate Line: Mental, and that this is just like mainline Paul, whaler stuff. This isn't including collabs like this kind of thing.

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Alternate Line: But you've obviously got his period with the jam.

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Alternate Line: are relatively brief, but I mean there are so many bangers in amongst in amongst the jam tracks, but I always thought I could understand

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Alternate Line: how someone like Paul Weller might feel limited in a group like the jam, because a 3.

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Alternate Line: And and the sort of pop poppy punk kind of thing they were doing, only really could go a certain

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Alternate Line: distance without trying without having to become something else. Then style council. Then you've got the nineties where he went on like that wildwood Stanley Road heavy soul thing, which were all very, very good.

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Alternate Line: And then it did get a bit shit in the 2 thousands, because heliocentric illumination.

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Alternate Line: I remember buying both of those records and.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yes.

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Alternate Line: I think that was the the main Dad Rock

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: he's got. He had a live acoustic album called Days of Speed. I don't know if you've ever picked up on that one.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I remember hearing bits of that. And yeah, it's nice.

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Alternate Line: It was really good. But then this I'm just realizing. There's a million Paul whaler records. I've never even I never even knew exactly.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, man, see? Well, see! See if you don't. Do, you know, like 22 dreams, and wake up the nation things like that

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Andrew's iPhone: that that kind of run of records that he's went on is just my favorite stuff by him, I'd I'd say, like, especially 22 dreams, just an amazing record.

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Andrew's iPhone: and he is kind of pulling in

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Andrew's iPhone: aspects of like folk, and

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Andrew's iPhone: Alice Coltrane, and

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Andrew's iPhone: and some interesting collaborators in that record as well. But yeah, that's that's a brilliant record. And then, yeah, man, he's he's just yeah. Since then, really, every so often he'll do one that's maybe kind of resting his laurels a little bit, but in general he's been.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know, just kind of, as I say, kind of questing, and being curious.

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Alternate Line: Can't think of a contemporary or not even a contemporary. I can't think of a British rock like royalty type person like like Whaler pretty much as I would say.

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Alternate Line: who has produced as much music as this, like literally at the volume but also who at this stage in his career is still looking to be

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Alternate Line: avant garde and do things that are steps to the right or steps to the left. You wouldn't expect, like the beautified junk girls track. I will give this one criticism because I really like this track, and I like that. It's it's whalers like

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Alternate Line: gentler, softer delivery. It's not his kind of like

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Alternate Line: it's not his dad rock delivery if we want to, if we want to be blunt about it.

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Alternate Line: But see, towards the end of this track. There's a wee moment

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Alternate Line: about. It's just about 3 moments in with the synth is just kind of

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Alternate Line: someone in the studio must have said to him, Paul, pick up the electric guitar and give us some of that muscular Paul whaler like, you know, fibre, you know, Guitar, that just kind of is crunchy and and alive, you know. Give us some of that nineties, Paul Whaler Guitar

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Alternate Line: taken the the last 3rd of this song into like some epic different territory.

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Alternate Line: but I mean, I don't know if if the record itself has more, if it has other moments like that or or not.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I was. I was. Gonna say, I don't think within the kind of the wider album it it wouldn't really fit.

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Andrew's iPhone: don't think. And yeah, I think part of this track's charm is the restraint of it. So maybe.

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Alternate Line: Yes, I would say.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's kind of got that kind of twangy, as you say, that kind of Charles Manson. This is almost like kind of spy movie twangy guitar going on.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the bass is really cool. It's got really satisfying sick bass on this track.

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Alternate Line: Makes me feel it makes me feel scared.

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Alternate Line: It does something about it makes me just feel weird when I've listened to it.

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Alternate Line: I think part of it is the la las as well. The sister moon. La, la, la, la.

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Andrew's iPhone: Good.

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Alternate Line: That's just like, Oh, that's creepy and obviously the synth, which just sounds like

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: You know.

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Andrew's iPhone: There's there's like. So the the synth sounds, and some of the kind of sound effects and stuff

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Andrew's iPhone: very reminiscent of like certain type of sixties psychedelic group that we're kind of experimenting with like primitive electronics and things like that.

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Andrew's iPhone: And one of the members from one of the kind of key groups of that, the United States of America

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Andrew's iPhone: and Dorothy Moskovich. She she appears on the last track on the record.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so those kind of links there as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so, yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: And this, this record's been getting really, really good reviews in places that know the stuff in terms of psych as well. So Shindig Magazine gave us a 5 star review for the album.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I'm a little bit surprised that it hasn't had a little bit more airplane exposure, maybe, of this track in particular, because of the weather connection, but.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, yeah, I'd have thought so, but but it hasn't been but but.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yes.

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Andrew's iPhone: Maybe too spooky.

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Alternate Line: Maybe what they should have done is they should have moved Paul Whaler

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Alternate Line: to the front and beautify junkyards to the back. But then that's not. That's not what it is.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, certainly. Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: But no, it's a great record.

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Alternate Line: Good swell when you see that that's usually a good indication of something worth listening to. Right onto our 5th new track of the week by Chrisants.

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Alternate Line: Chrysanthe, mums. Nope, not just chrysanthes and the track landscapes from the record leave no shadow

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Alternate Line: there we go

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Alternate Line: for color

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Alternate Line: for fear

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Alternate Line: these are all good friends to you.

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Alternate Line: When we

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Andrew's iPhone: Unlimited.

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Andrew's iPhone: Does. Yeah, I am the whole slot. 5 thing. Yeah. Maybe I like to kind of bring it down towards the end, and

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Andrew's iPhone: I don't enjoy Scottish punk music. So so anything that's kind of Scottish is is likely to be a little bit more

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Andrew's iPhone: gentle, I guess, or.

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Andrew's iPhone: I love orchestral music from Scotland. There's something about it. It's that intangible.

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Andrew's iPhone: We've we've changed things.

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah. So Chrisants.

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Andrew's iPhone: it's not. Chris, ants

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Andrew's iPhone: as in like a solo artist called Chris amps it's Chris, amps.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it's the moniker for the new project by multi-instrumentalist and frontwoman of Glasgow, based band modern studies.

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Andrew's iPhone: And her name is Emily Scott.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, this is this is her

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Andrew's iPhone: her album leave no shadow, as she said, recorded in Scotland, with Emily in the producer's chair.

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Andrew's iPhone: And there are elements of that kind of pastoral chamber pop thing, that monster these are known for.

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Andrew's iPhone: We again we talked about months of these way back.

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Andrew's iPhone: but yeah, this is this is like a new project, and

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Andrew's iPhone: there's even more emphasis on that kind of chamber aspect of of what they do.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so I mean, the strings are just absolutely spectacular on this track and across the the 9 tracks on the album.

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Andrew's iPhone: Again. The things are arranged by Scottish elf.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, I must admit I didn't see that in my research who actually played them. But yeah, arranged by her, produced by her

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Andrew's iPhone: and

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Andrew's iPhone: underneath all those strings there's there's a small band. A friend of the pod, Susan Bear is on base.

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Andrew's iPhone: And Owen Curtis Williams on drums.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yeah, it's kind of all about those strings which are just absolutely sumptuous and spectacular.

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Andrew's iPhone: And

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Andrew's iPhone: and yeah, apparently she. She is classically trained in the double base.

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Andrew's iPhone: Scott!

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Andrew's iPhone: And she she plays piano on this record, and, as I say, she she

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Andrew's iPhone: she'd written the string parts as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: and informed by romantic composers like Debussy and Bartok, apparently, and apparently there's a Puccini piece that's actually called

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Andrew's iPhone: Christophers in in Pacini's language.

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Andrew's iPhone: I was very tempted to like.

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Andrew's iPhone: Checking out at the last minute.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so there's all that kind of stuff going on that that kind of classical stuff. And she's also talked about

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Andrew's iPhone: you know where where Pop kind of meets that kind of stuff as well. So the incredible records that Scott Walker made in the sixties. There's a real kind of Scott, like a walker. Free, Scott, free. Feel to to a lot of the tracks on this album

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Andrew's iPhone: as well as the Jean Claude Vanier's work

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Andrew's iPhone: for service, Gainsbourg as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so yeah, so which is all stuff that I love. And I think that's that's where I'm kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: coming from with it, I guess. But

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Andrew's iPhone: but yeah, I mean, it's

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Andrew's iPhone: those strings are so foregrounded in the tracks that it's almost you're almost like having to try and find the songs within it underneath a lot of these tracks on the album.

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Andrew's iPhone: And

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Andrew's iPhone: but I must say I really enjoy the album when it's on.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I'm hoping that

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Andrew's iPhone: as as I kind of live with the album a bit longer, I'll get to kind of know

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Andrew's iPhone: the the the more specifics of different tracks, because at the moment it is just this real kind of string experience for like, which is really enjoyable. But

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah, I'd like to think that the songs themselves would really kind of come through

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Andrew's iPhone: my overtime as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: Does, yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, yeah, I, I agree.

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Alternate Line: And I liked modern studies when we listened to modern studies before. But this grabs me.

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Alternate Line: Yeah, more straightforwardly, I think. Yeah. So I've failed my exams. But I've passed my chrysanthemum. I should point out then, in my wee bit of research about Chrysanthes. That

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Alternate Line: I'm seeing that from the advert, as you can tell. But I would love to see how this is performed. How how is how is this replicated on stage. Is it going to be more?

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Alternate Line: Is it going to be more stripped back? Are you gonna see? Are you going to feel the songs more, which I think is what you were.

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Alternate Line: You were perhaps hoping for there, or you know, Blood Cafe is not a massive venue, so we're going to have string quartet in the.

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Andrew's iPhone: They would have to have some kind of string

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Andrew's iPhone: arrangement going on, I think, yeah, definitely, I mean, yeah, there's just such. A. They are just such a stars track, and I agree with you about the piano playing. But the strings are just

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Andrew's iPhone: incredible.

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Andrew's iPhone: On this track and across the record.

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Alternate Line: 5 belters, really, I would say, I mean, there's there's very little very little fat on this.

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Alternate Line: on this week's on this week's 5,

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Alternate Line: which a bit of a shame, actually, because you and I were chatting before the podcast started, and I was seeing one of our more popular episodes

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Alternate Line: and it's now become one of our more popular episodes, which may just be a coincidence. I don't know but but there you go.

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Alternate Line: okay, so that brings us on to our vinyl word

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Alternate Line: weekly conceit, where we pretend that Andrew is in his vinyl room, which he I can see. I don't think he is.

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Alternate Line: which is sometimes very closely and sometimes a bit more loosely connected to the tracks we've listened to today.

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Alternate Line: And it's a good opportunity for me to say, guys, thank you so much for listening to the podcast we wouldn't make it if people didn't listen. So thank you so much.

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Alternate Line: We're creeping up to 100 episodes. We've got plans, big plans in mind. We'll see where we go from here. But thanks so much to all of you guys who've been listening all this time.

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Alternate Line: We love you. If you feel like, you want to support the podcast please keep listening, that's the primary thing. Please keep listening, recommend the podcast your friends, your other music, loving chums. We would love that follow us on social media, instagram, Twitter. If your podcast platform has reviewing and liking and all those things. Then then go for that, please.

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Alternate Line: If you feel like, you want to support the podcast financially, then do you know what Andrew.

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Andrew's iPhone: Or Ian.

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Alternate Line: They can, they definitely can. All they do is they go to Www. Dot buy meacoffee.com slash. We heard wonders where they can give us a wee donation which we just put towards the ongoing running costs

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Alternate Line: of the show. Now, we did get a nice

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Alternate Line: sub from another music. Podcast but I want to give that it's its proper space next week, because we haven't had the opportunity to contact those guys and chat to them, which is something I want to do. So we'll do that for next week. Andrew. Does that make sense.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, definitely, I agree with that as well.

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Alternate Line: Yeah, yeah, cool. Okay. So over to you, Andrew, for the final word.

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay, thank you. So, as I mentioned.

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Andrew's iPhone: Dorothy Moskovich makes an appearance on the beautified junk cards record as well as Paul Weller.

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Andrew's iPhone: That's how on the final track turned the tide in touring lines about finding the notes to bring rebirth.

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Andrew's iPhone: serenading coral and setting the ocean free.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so yeah, there's there's definitely kind of sixties hippie vibes going on on the track.

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Andrew's iPhone: and Moskovich was a key member of the United States of America.

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Andrew's iPhone: who formed in 1967,

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Andrew's iPhone: released a psychedelic future cult classic in 1968 and disbanded soon after its release. So a classic one and done

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Andrew's iPhone: act, and along with releases by acts like silver apples and white noise.

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Andrew's iPhone: They are viewed as being very pioneering in terms of the way they combined

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Andrew's iPhone: primitive electronics with studio trickery and more rock based instrumentation.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yeah, just their self titled record. Psychedelic classic, in my opinion, still sounds extraordinary. Wild, weird, eccentric.

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Andrew's iPhone: There's a track on the album. This is kind of zapper S country pastiche called. I won't leave my wooden wife for you. Sugar.

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Andrew's iPhone: So funny

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Andrew's iPhone: it just still sounds really futuristic. This record, I think, in a lot of ways. And the track I've chosen to place it with is called The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I've always kind of thought of this song as a sister song, a sister moon, if you will

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Andrew's iPhone: to White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, which was released the previous year.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it's the idea that the teapot at the Mad hatter's tea party is well and truly laced.

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Andrew's iPhone: and everyone's fed their heads. And now it's the turn of the venomous blossoms

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Andrew's iPhone: and omnivorous orchids to feast.

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Andrew's iPhone: so yeah. So this tracks. A bit of a mixtape playlist staple for me still has this kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: freshness and excitement about it, and it's still capable of getting that kind of who is this?

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Andrew's iPhone: What is that response from people that maybe uninitiated?

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Andrew's iPhone: And if you taste about it? So so yeah, so hopefully, there's some people that are kind of hearing this for the 1st time.

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Andrew's iPhone: and for a bigger way to place it to speak.

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Alternate Line: All right. Here is the Garden of Ethelly wonders. Guys hope you have a wonderful week, and I will see you down the road.

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Alternate Line: the daily do we?

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Alternate Line: I'll never resor again.

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Alternate Line: Cautiously wait 100, and you will find them in her eyes, in her eyes.

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Alternate Line: Find them when her eyes in her eyes, in her eyes.

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Alternate Line: Thank you for love.

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Alternate Line: Welcome to freedom, into a spectacular

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