New Music - Sam Fender! MEMORIALS! Denzel Curry! Emma-Jean Thackray! Jill Lorean! Plus Kendrick Lamar!

MUSTAAAARD! The latest @weheardwonders is burnin' HOT, with Andrew and Iain discussing GNX, the surprise new album from Kendrick Lamar, before playing and sharing their thoughts on new tracks from Top 5 single hit-maker and man-of-the-people Sam Fender, exploratory art-rock duo MEMORIALS, mischievous Southern hip-hop king Denzel Curry, space-funk trumpeter Emma-Jean Thackray and very talented friend-o'-pod Jill Lorean. Something obscenely, moreishly groovy 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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Alternate Line: woke up looking for the Barclay high Key. Keep a horn on me. Mr. Get off. I get off at my feet. Hello, and welcome to the music podcast. That hopefully won't kill your vibe this week. How you doing, Andrew?

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Andrew's iPhone: Mustad.

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Alternate Line: That's the one how we doing man welcome to the we heard wonders, music, podcast. How is everybody doing? Everybody in this case is just you and me. Andrew, how are you doing.

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Andrew's iPhone: I am. Well, yeah, I'm good. How are you getting on?

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Alternate Line: I'm all right. I feel like I'm a little bit held together with limsip and twigs this week a little bit. To be honest.

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Andrew's iPhone: Good! Good! You're a trooper. You're a true trooper.

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Alternate Line: It's been a tricky old week for the old your podcasting chums here, listeners, because we've had sick weans. You had sick Waynes. I had sick weans and then, now I am sick. I think that's just the next stage, isn't it?

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Andrew's iPhone: This is just what happens, isn't it? Yeah. And then, yeah, when your weans are sick, you just have to

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Andrew's iPhone: just have to drop everything else. I guess.

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Alternate Line: Pretty much. I am literally sipping a lim sip during this intro. Normally, you've got some nice beer or something.

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Alternate Line: What you got to accompany this evening.

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Andrew's iPhone: I've got a nice talking head, so even my beers are music related. There we go.

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Alternate Line: Oh! Is that a drag? It.

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Andrew's iPhone: But as a tragic.

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Alternate Line: Very nice.

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Andrew's iPhone: Very tasty.

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Alternate Line: Lives.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, that's about.

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Alternate Line: Nicholas.

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Andrew's iPhone: Queens, rivers.

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Alternate Line: Oh, very nice, very nice. Nice label as well.

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Alternate Line: Okay, cool. So we're back. Episode 99, I believe.

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Alternate Line: unless there was some, it was like counting Pele's goals. But I think we're at. I think we're at 99,

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Alternate Line: and the big news in the world of music this week was the surprise drop of the Kendrick Lamar record, which I have had absolutely 0 space in my brain to pay any attention to. So I was just gonna say, Andrew, what do you think of it?

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay, yeah. So yeah, as he's got want to do, he's just kind of dropped this out of the blue. He's obviously had that series of.

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Alternate Line: With us, I.

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Andrew's iPhone: Diss tracks and things that he was doing with Drake earlier in the year. But yeah, this is the album that's come out of nowhere and is messing up quite a few folks proposed best of year List. I think.

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Andrew's iPhone: this this late in the year. But yeah, I mean, I'm about 4 or 5 lessons, 5 lessons into it now, and

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Andrew's iPhone: finding an enjoyable, engaging, and easy lesson, I would say.

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Alternate Line: Hmm.

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Andrew's iPhone: After the unruly, sober, emotionally naughty.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I mean, while, they're like returning ideas and topics that he's interested in exploring on this album. It's not like a kind of grand conceptual statement in the vein of something like good kid, mad city, or T-pab. It's

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Andrew's iPhone: and it's, I think, deliberately so. It's kind of supposed to be more a kind of series of tracks.

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Andrew's iPhone: there's a few kind of tent pole moments on the album. So the beginning track, the middle track and the end track.

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Andrew's iPhone: Are kind of more overtly, rightly.

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Andrew's iPhone: I guess, in the way that he's executing the conceit of those particular tracks. So

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Andrew's iPhone: the opening track worked out murals is essentially him getting us up to speed with what's been happening. So it kind of alludes to those beasts with Drake

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Andrew's iPhone: New Orleans. Hip, hop, son, if you like, and I think he was kind of muffed about that. So there's kind of references to that. And and the track really kind of sets the tone as well, because it's got this really kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: minimal, hard hitting beat to it, which you get a lot of on this record.

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Andrew's iPhone: there's a track right at the center of the record called reincarnated, which is him, is most kind of dexterous and inventive. So he's going to tell in this story from

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Andrew's iPhone: Connect

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Andrew's iPhone: kind of using multiple persona. So he kind of tells the story of these kind of trouble talented musicians through time, so

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Andrew's iPhone: it feels like he's kind of taken on the personas of what seems to be John Lee Hooker.

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Andrew's iPhone: Billy Holiday, and then he states that his present life is Kendrick Lamar, and he kind of talks about

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Andrew's iPhone: how it feels to the Kendrick

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Andrew's iPhone: for a while, and it's kind of placing themselves in that kind of lineage of those kind of black artists, I guess.

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Alternate Line: In the hands of the hands of other folk that could just be ridiculous.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. All the while he's kind of musically referencing Tupac as well. And there was a pitchfork review for the album, which I thought was quite insightful in places, but they described the track as unlistenable.

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Andrew's iPhone: which was totally baffling to me, because I think it's a really good track, and, as you say, like in other person's hands, it could be a mess. But I think it actually really works. And it's kind of what you want, Kendrick to be doing sometimes.

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Andrew's iPhone: and then the album ends with this excellent track, called Gloria.

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Andrew's iPhone: which presents itself as like an ode to a woman, being

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Andrew's iPhone: before kind of revealing that it's a pain to his pen. And he's talking about

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Andrew's iPhone: his creativity and his relationship to writing and that kind of thing. So those those tracks are really interesting. As I say, they're kind of tent pose for the record

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Andrew's iPhone: around which tracks like the one that we came in with. Squabble up hang. So there's these tracks are a lot more kind of immediate and fun.

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Andrew's iPhone: and more kind of musically of a piece with those diss tracks that he was releasing.

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Andrew's iPhone: and as well as that kind of more minimalist, commercially minded

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Andrew's iPhone: sound that he did on dam as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yes, I mean, there's a few moments in the second half of the album that aren't quite hitting for me yet, but I think overall it's a really really good record, and he's just.

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Andrew's iPhone: He just very rarely misses in terms of just delivering that that quality. You know. There's just always a kind of stamp of quality to what he does.

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Alternate Line: and he just does it with like apparent ease. And I think the one criticism, or or the major criticism of Mr. Moral, was that it? It didn't really sound that easy. It did sound like a bit of a.

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Alternate Line: it's kinda it's clever stuff, but it's clever in a way that isn't talking down to you, or doesn't require you to, you know, puzzle something out for 15 min. But what did he mean by that?

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Alternate Line: So yeah, I mean, I just still think good kid, Mad City is probably the best hip, hop record I've probably ever heard. It's my favorite one of his

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Alternate Line: and I didn't really enjoy my summer all that much, although there's bits of it that are good, obviously. But squabble up is the one track I've really listened to a few times, primarily because it was. You know, he had a clip of it right at the start of the not like us. Video.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yes.

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Alternate Line: And so I just. I remember when that video came out a few whenever that was last summer, or whenever it was was it just earlier this year? I think it was earlier this year.

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Alternate Line: And I thought that little clip at the start which is now the full song. Squabble up, I thought, that's genius. He's basically just taking this song that's going Mega, mega, mega viral streaming everywhere all the drake stuff. It's on every channel and platform and whatnot, and he's just snuck like 20 seconds of like what sounds a little bit like a freestyle on the front.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, it just doesn't have the replay value. I think that's the thing with those kind of diss tracks. But yeah, because there's a track on this album called TV off, which, again, is quite closely related to to not like us.

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Andrew's iPhone: And but yeah, it's but it's just doing something that's

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Alternate Line: Like the production of both of those tracks not like us and squabble up, and that's mustard on the beat, I believe, as he says,

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Alternate Line: So yeah, because that guy Mustard was like a sort of he was producing hits like a long time ago, and sort of has had kind of gone away from the the spotlight. I think the list of songs I don't have it to hand, but list of songs he produced, you know, and were very popular, was like 1015 years ago. And then, for whatever reason, Kendrick just went right. This is who we need. And

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: It's a hat. What's a hat? Naked again?

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Andrew's iPhone: It's that kind of classic West Coast Sound.

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Alternate Line: Right? So Kendrick dropped a new record this week. We have. That's a hat. That's a sort of review from us. Kind of review. What? We actually what's our actual business today, Andrew? Tell us all about it.

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Andrew's iPhone: So we've got some music from Sam Fender memorials, Denzel Curry, Emma Jean Thackeray, and Joe Laurean.

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Alternate Line: Very nice. I propose we just get straight in to people watching

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Andrew's iPhone: So we welcome.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yes, of the eagles.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, me! More feel so, boom!

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Andrew's iPhone: I used to feel it was a that's work screaming the song

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Andrew's iPhone: hard.

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Andrew's iPhone: I feel so dull.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, my heart, you so long

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Andrew's iPhone: street! Hello!

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Andrew's iPhone: Keep back going suddenly it's awake chasing trucks over.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's colder than this. You get the gist of it, I promise to.

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Andrew's iPhone: The girl on the base was full of bits on the staff. The Lord got a signs of food

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Andrew's iPhone: 1st was around the clock.

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Andrew's iPhone: Still, that's my brain hard wasn't called no soul warm.

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Andrew's iPhone: I stayed all day.

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Andrew's iPhone: Earth, this love that's Jews

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Andrew's iPhone: absolutely bad.

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Andrew's iPhone: Are you in a trap

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Andrew's iPhone: rain so far, pistols in the sky.

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Andrew's iPhone: Happy for this

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Andrew's iPhone: stage.

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Alternate Line: Reverb is king on people watching by some vendor.

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Alternate Line: yeah, I had an instantly positive reaction to listen to this song. I have to say literally, from the 1st

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Alternate Line: And he's been doing that for a few a few records. Now. So

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Alternate Line: That's my review in a cock hat. But I'll be happy to talk about it in more detail. What do you think yourself, sir?

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, he's an interesting one, Sam Fender. Some people whose taste I really respect. I've always spoken really highly of him and say that he's a really good egg, but he's just somebody that I've never really fully investigated his music in the past. I'm familiar with the tracks I've been going under which was.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know this this kind of big rosing pop

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Andrew's iPhone: hit an anthem, but I haven't. As I say, I haven't investigated much, much further than that. But be a professional. At least he's just loving his absolute, best life. When you talk about his influences, you know. Playing shows with his absolute heroes, Bruce Springsteen

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Andrew's iPhone: and working closely with his favorite modern group, war on drugs on this record. So Adam from the band is co-producing this album

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Andrew's iPhone: and Germany's.

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Andrew's iPhone: So he's so he's doing that. He's an absolute superstar in the northeast. So he played to over a hundred 1,000 people over 2 nights in St. James's Park last year.

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Andrew's iPhone: as well as that, he's had huge commercial success and a Mercury nomination for 17 going under as well. So yeah, just I think. Yeah, I think just

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Andrew's iPhone: you're right in what you say is just very likable. I think people just believe in him as as a.

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Andrew's iPhone: as an artist, as a as a person. I think he just comes across as completely authentic play music that he loves.

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Andrew's iPhone: singing in his own accent about people in situations that he knows.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, there's just. But at the same time there's this feeling that he's not trying too hard about it. And I think on this track. Just everything works

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Andrew's iPhone: kind of. It's like the war on drugs playbook a little bit. There's the kind of driving beat there's anthemic chorus.

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Andrew's iPhone: relatable lyrics, the saxophone solo. But it's just buffed up to this.

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Andrew's iPhone: The sheen buffed for optimum commercial impact, I think.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and yeah, I mean, war on drugs have been kind of going in this direction themselves, and more recently, this kind of slicker direction.

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Andrew's iPhone: But this is just taking it even more so in in that direction.

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Andrew's iPhone: The one on drugs that I'll always be most fond of is the kind of slave ambient lost in the dream era. I was absolutely obsessed with their album, lost in the dream when it came out, so much so that I named my music blog at the time after a track on it.

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Andrew's iPhone: and and they were able to kind of combine Artland Rock

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Andrew's iPhone: with the kind of gospel blues, the spiritualized and the motoric momentum of noise. So that was just a kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: a marriage in heaven for me. But yeah, I mean, this is, this is kind of smoother and a bit more sparkly than maybe I typically like my music. But

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Andrew's iPhone: and there's just no denying that it's really well conceived.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it is a hit as well. So on Friday this was the week's highest new entry in the charts going in at Number 4.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so yeah, so it's just

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I mean, I think that personal connection in this track really kind of elevates it as well above the kind of standard springsenisms, the kind of 1st few verses of this track. It's kind of the references to the blue collar jobs and the desire to break out, and then you get

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Andrew's iPhone: Memorials are an experimental Pop band, consisting of dual verte Sussmen.

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Andrew's iPhone: they've toured with stereo labs. And indeed they've been called stereo labs Evil twin before, and in 2024 they signed to fire records who have a real knack for cultivating acts in this kind of Arty exploratory, occasionally electronic style. And so I'm thinking of people like Jim Weaver vanishing Twin Virginia wink.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's name 3. And they released their debut album memorial water slides last month.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, so yeah, as you as you say, there's there's a lot going on that track. It's a real kind of rush of a track

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Andrew's iPhone: do you remember literally? And I always associate them with here just hearing their name referenced on Steve Lamax. Evening session

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Andrew's iPhone: They were this kind of no nonsense, feminist indie group from Brighton.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I think so. It's it's getting some good reviews. This album. It's like she. Verity does this kind of celestial choral thing at 1 point as well. It's like.

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Andrew's iPhone: that they're kind of visiting almost, and that would kind of tie in with the the name memorials as well. But yeah, I think that's just

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, just just an enjoyable listening to the penultimate tracks. This 9 min

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Alternate Line: I'll be honest. I don't even know what I'm going to say about this, apart from I like the way that Mexican ot, says the letter R. That's my favorite thing about it, so I'll try and maximize on that post listening to it. So this is Denzel Curry featuring that Mexican ot with the black flag. Freestyle.

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Alternate Line: hey, black flag! All on my mic. I've been known to spend a lot like Bob Barker. The price is right. Being broke. My kryptonite being rich, my superpower smoking on these bitter niggas in my hood we call it sours from the south side of Fla. Been through Dayton broward, musty ass cush, only smelling like a golden shower. Yeah, I like my weed louder bitches, batter niggas realer

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah. I was wondering that myself. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I don't know if it is. Yeah, maybe maybe there is a little bit of that.

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Andrew's iPhone: I went with this track because it hits hard, and it's got that kind of classic freestyle

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Andrew's iPhone: almost kind of seemingly improvised, and it's got that kind of grandstanding and money flaunting

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Andrew's iPhone: that you'd expect with a freestyle as well, so being broke, my kryptonite being rich, my superpower.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, so I like that about the track. I also think that that line I used to smart talk, but now I have to dumb it down kind of sums up what he's going for with this project. So, as you say that there's something kind of deliberately

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Andrew's iPhone: kind of almost get a dumb, quite kind of superficial about it. But he's been very kind of playful, and quite knowing with it as well, which which I think is cool.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I mean, Denzil Curry's a really interesting rapper, so we've we've had some West Coast hip. Hop. Now we've got some some sovereign

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Andrew's iPhone: with dental. So so yeah, I mean, I've I've been enjoying this stuff for quite a while. So

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Andrew's iPhone: he started rapping at the age

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Andrew's iPhone: when he was in 6th grade, and then began working on his 1st mixtape in 2,011, when he was just 16,

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Andrew's iPhone: and he's had 3 p. 6 lp. Since then.

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Andrew's iPhone: and you know he's garnered a lot of praise for his, that kind of aggressive rapping style that he's got.

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Andrew's iPhone: but also his abilities as a producer and a lyricist as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: So records I've enjoyed by him in the past were taboo from 2018, Zulu from 2019 and unlocked, which was his.

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Andrew's iPhone: a collaboration with Kenny Beats, which was a really cool

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Andrew's iPhone: record that packed a dizzying amount of ideas into 8 tracks in 18 min.

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Andrew's iPhone: and his last full length was this record called Milk. My eyes see your future.

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Andrew's iPhone: which was him pivoting into

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Andrew's iPhone: a hip hop that was a little bit more sophisticated, a bit more philosophical and conscious

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Andrew's iPhone: and kind of in the way that that Lucy Mckendrick he's kind of.

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Andrew's iPhone: He's using this new project as a way of kind of moving away from that and trying to have a little bit more fun, I think, with this, with this one. So yeah, so it's

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah. I think he's he's kind of deliberately trying trying to do something a bit different here. So

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Andrew's iPhone: slightly, confusingly, the 15 track Album, King of the mischievous South volume 2,

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Andrew's iPhone: which was put out in July, and has just been released. An extended version with 4 extra tracks and the more definitive title.

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Andrew's iPhone: King of the mischievous South.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so tell us what happened to Volume one. But there we go. And so so it's kind of unvarnished Southern Bangers

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Andrew's iPhone: that are the order of the day, of the kind that that curry used to enjoy listening to and making when he was growing up.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, it's but it. But it's kind of unvarnished 7 Bangers created by a really talented Mc. With an ear for detail and

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Andrew's iPhone: a kind of innate understanding of what makes that style of hip, hop, pop.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so, even though he's kind of doing music that's kind of seemingly more frivolous.

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Andrew's iPhone: he's kind of almost doing it in a kind of conceptual ways that this is my, this is my Southern hip-hop record.

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Andrew's iPhone: and he's kind of like focusing on on that kind of idea.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so yeah, I mean, it was kind of difficult for me to pick one track, because there's just so many big tunes. I think, Robin had said, there's just an album full of bangers. Is that right? Something like that?

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Andrew's iPhone: So. Yes, I mean, there's just. There are so many bangers in this record. Favorites include hot one scared.

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Andrew's iPhone: hit the floor and acted damn full. But, as I say, I went for this one just because I think it. It kind of sums up something about the record, and I do think it's a cool track as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: Not. Sure.

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Alternate Line: Don't know done the reference to Bob Barker as well. So Bob Barker was. The host prices right?

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Andrew's iPhone: I thought it'd be like a British rapper spitting bars about Les Dennis, or something like that.

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Alternate Line: I've forgotten his name, you know the one with Mr. Chips. What's Mr. Chips doing right catchphrase with what's his name?

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Andrew's iPhone: Probably Walker, but or Stephen Mohan.

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Alternate Line: Yeah, catchphrase. I love catchphrase. I don't know how we end up talking about Roy Walker. Let's probably press on. But yeah, thanks, Robin, stop listening to this music with these horrible lyrics. Please

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Andrew's iPhone: Incantation.

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Alternate Line: okay, so on to again, something completely different. So now we have Emma, Jean Thackeray and Reggie Watts, with Black Hole

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Alternate Line: like I I hope like. Oh, I go, I go!

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Alternate Line: I'm in a black hole after spat won't let the big cat pull me out. I'm in a black hole after spat. Won't let the big cat pull me out. A black hole out to spat won't let the big can't pull me out.

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Alternate Line: A little bit, jazzy there

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Alternate Line: Tell us all about it, Andrew.

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay. So Imogene Factory is an English jazz musician, producer, Bandleader and Dj.

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Andrew's iPhone: A.

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Andrew's iPhone: Born and brought up in Leeds in West Yorkshire.

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Andrew's iPhone: And now based in South London.

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Andrew's iPhone: So Factory played the cornet

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Andrew's iPhone: in local brass bands in Yorkshire before switching to the trump. At the age of 14 she studied jazz performance under the British jazz pianist.

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Andrew's iPhone: Tip it, which is pretty cool.

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Andrew's iPhone: and she's been releasing records mostly under her own label call movement since 2020.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yeah, she's she's a cool artist.

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Andrew's iPhone: She's 1 1 of the kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: people that's embed theirself within the that kind of London. Jazz scene.

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Andrew's iPhone: She had an album that came out in July 2021 called Yellow which

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Andrew's iPhone: felt like it would be absolute catnip for me. Everything about it from the press release and reviews. Lovely artwork made it seem so tasty and completely up my alley, so

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Andrew's iPhone: I remember I've got a description here a transcendent human shared experience, drawing glowing lines between seventies, jazz, fusion, P. Funk, the cosmic innovations of Sunra and Alice Coltrane, and the gorgeous orchestrations of the Beach boys, along with an affinity for the genius of low slung hip hop producers, Jay Diller and mad.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yeah, I mean, all of that kind of really appealed to me, and she was talking about it being this psychedelic trip that would take you through all these different

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Andrew's iPhone: movements and transform you coming out the other side? Kind of thing

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Andrew's iPhone: for the most part the reality. Listen to that record didn't quite live up to that for me. Unfortunately I was. There was just something about the arrangements and the production on that record that weren't quite far enough out there, you know, again, maybe just kind of over promising with all that kind of stuff

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Andrew's iPhone: and and the press release stuff. But

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Andrew's iPhone: Having said that, I really like this new track.

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Andrew's iPhone: think this is a kind of step up for her in terms of the production

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Andrew's iPhone: space funk, basically, isn't it? It's.

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Andrew's iPhone: Appropriately enough for a track called Black Hole

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Andrew's iPhone: and there's that cool intro with the kind of turning of the ignition.

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Andrew's iPhone: and then you kind of get sucked into this kind of aural black hole. And

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah, I just enjoy the track. It's not overly fussy. It's got a cool snap to it. It's got an assistant groove to it.

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Andrew's iPhone: That kind of ties in with her record label being called Movement, I think.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the chorus is just very catchy, so I do enjoy this track, and I think it kind of bodes well for for her next album. It's coming out again in the New Year.

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Alternate Line: I don't know where I'm with this one. I think I enjoy. I mean, I did enjoy it. I just don't know that I took a I don't know if I took a lot from it. I just kind of thought it was.

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Alternate Line: and then I just kind of don't think about it afterwards. I don't. I don't mean that to sound like cruel or whatever it's just like it's just not had a big massive like

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Alternate Line: But but yeah, Reggie Watts is an interesting

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Alternate Line: And yeah, adds to the add to the fun of the track. It's definitely very funky

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Alternate Line: and very jazzy and fun, but it just doesn't leave any like deep impression on me is what I'm trying to say. And there definitely has been jazz and funk that we've listened to together over the years where, despite it not being my

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Andrew's iPhone: No.

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Andrew's iPhone: Nope.

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Andrew's iPhone: It does. It does absolutely make sense. Yeah, no worries. I do think it's a catch you during this one. And I can. I can see what you mean about maybe the kind of depth in terms of the lyrics, maybe not being there. But

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Andrew's iPhone: I don't think that that's what they are going for with this track necessarily it is about.

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Andrew's iPhone: No, I know.

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Andrew's iPhone: Move over. But no, that's that's just totally fair enough.

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Alternate Line: I just actually, I'm literally not even sure what it is, but something just keeps me at arm's length with this one, and although I do very much enjoy the record sleeve.

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Alternate Line: Again. I'm not really sure. I don't really know what that means, but I like it

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Alternate Line: I've ended on a positive note from a review here of Emma, Jean Thackeray and Reggie Watts with black hole.

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Alternate Line: Okay.

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Alternate Line: I don't want to rush us through. Was there more to say about this particular track, or

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Andrew's iPhone: No, I think that's fair enough. I mean she's a Taoist

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Andrew's iPhone: so hopefully she won't be overly offended by anything that you've said. You know she'll be able to kind of take it in her stride and.

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Alternate Line: What's a Taoist when they're at home? Is that someone who doesn't react badly to my criticism? Is that what they are? I didn't know there was a thing for that.

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Andrew's iPhone: I'm sure she'll. I'm sure she'll be very philosophical about it.

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Alternate Line: okay, well, I'm I am very keen to move on to our final new track of the day.

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Alternate Line: Friend Opod

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, she was very kind of engaging, very thoughtful, quite gossipy, and a very generous.

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Andrew's iPhone: So so I would kind of like.

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Andrew's iPhone: I was like, list some of the bands that she was on tour with. And suddenly she's telling us stories about touring with the Pogues and the lengths that the team around the band were going to to accommodate Sean Mcgowan's alcoholism. Basically.

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Andrew's iPhone: So she she was really, really interesting.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yes, I'd recommend people, maybe going back and checking out that interview if they haven't already listened to it.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Turn back.

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Alternate Line: Here with a new Delorean track from

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Alternate Line: Would you like to be the renegade with me.

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Alternate Line: Tell me that you want to stay, please play.

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Alternate Line: I can't remember the pleasures

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Alternate Line: E.

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Alternate Line: lovely stuff. Peace cult from Jill. Lorian. Why do I love this song so so much.

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Alternate Line: This is the best piece of music on this playlist for me this week, and that includes things that I thought were very, very good, like the Sam fender track, but I don't know. It's that thing again where I think I'm back to this idea of, is it? Is it? Do I get extra sort of

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Alternate Line: flavour and sauce from the idea that we have like. I kind of have had a personal interaction with Jill Lorian, and so she's kind of directed my thoughts a little bit, and kind of pointed me in the direction of why to like it. But I don't actually think it is that I think I would like this just as much. Anyway, it feels.

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Alternate Line: It's not overreaching itself. Okay, I'm getting too effusive. So I'm gonna throw over.

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Andrew's iPhone: Move. I like it.

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Andrew's iPhone: I like it especially like that last that last idea that yeah, it doesn't.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's not. It's not

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Andrew's iPhone: overly complex or trying too hard. It's just as you say, it's just affecting, and it's it feels true.

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Andrew's iPhone: It is, it is, and it is the title track of her new album. So the follow up to the last record. This rock, which was the one that she was on the pod for.

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Andrew's iPhone: And again she's working alongside musician and producer, Andy Monahan

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Andrew's iPhone: of frightened rabbit and drummer, Peter Kelly. So Jill Lorian is very much a band now, if if it ever, if it ever was just Jill, it's now definitely a band, and

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Andrew's iPhone: you can just hear that they're even tighter than they were before. And there's a really kind of cool interplay between the 3 of them

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Andrew's iPhone: across this record, and there's the kind of typical references to nature.

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Andrew's iPhone: her now trademark allusions to birds as well as frustrations, a desire to escape mortality.

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Andrew's iPhone: and there are moments that are a little bit more earthy and menacing.

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Andrew's iPhone: and she's talked about how she's really kind of rediscovered her. Her sense of anger over the last kind of couple of years with, like some of the things that have been going on.

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Andrew's iPhone: You know, more locally in Glasgow, with like food banks and things like that, but also

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Andrew's iPhone: things happening around the world with Gaza and and the environment as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: So yeah, she's described the record being kind of all over the place because human emotions are all over the place.

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Andrew's iPhone: and she's talked about being very kind of empathetic in terms of like, you know, when her friends are happy. She's happy when they're despondent or worried than she is, and she reacts. So all of that's kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: pulled in in the album. So you, as I say, you've got these kind of earthy, menacing moments, but also kind of prettier

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Andrew's iPhone: and more melodic moments like this, this track is.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yeah, I think it's it's a it's a really good record.

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Andrew's iPhone: she's kind of worked up these recordings a little bit more. It's a little bit less of that because of the last record that was very much about them in the room and capturing a moment.

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Andrew's iPhone: whereas with these tracks you get a sense that they've maybe been working a little bit over time

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Andrew's iPhone: building them up. But yeah, I think it is a record that grows with repeated lessons as well. So I'd recommend people checking out

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Andrew's iPhone: she talked about. This is her attempt to write a happy song

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Andrew's iPhone: so like there's like that. That sense of the the sound of the children playing throughout.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that kind of found sound clip, that kind of plays into that.

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Andrew's iPhone: And she talked about there being beauty and naivety as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: and you know, would you like to be a renegade with me? Would you like to run away from this country? That's a very kind of enticing and appealing offer. When she sings it.

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Alternate Line: So there's beauty and naivety, Andrew. I must be fucking gorgeous. Then.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah. So really well crafted song. A, really, it's a kind of sweeter, more controlled vocal performance than found elsewhere in the record. She? She does kind of channel. Pg. Harvey. At points, I would say

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Andrew's iPhone: And not only does it kind of capture that era that's perhaps most associated with both peace and cult, something like the late sixties, early seventies. That prominent harmonica work is very kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: harvesty, the new young, I would say.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and yeah, I mean, towards the back end of the album, there's there's

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Andrew's iPhone: tracks that do have that more kind of post-punk, scything violin sound that she had on the last album. But yeah, it's cool. It's a cool record. There's also a track called Crushing the campsies.

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Andrew's iPhone: I'm just immediately drawn to having spent many a fun day just climbing the Campsey Hills, cycling up there and jumping off waterfalls

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Andrew's iPhone: so.

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Alternate Line: Yeah. Idyllic. Do you know this? The song made me think most of the poster paints record from, I think, 2022. That was Carla J. Easton and Simon little and it's that similar kind of Glasgow Indie, pop!

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Alternate Line: I like both of those records very, very much. I really like that poster, I mean, when we reviewed the track, whichever track it was, I have no idea. When we reviewed poster paints a couple of years ago. I really liked the track, and then I really liked the rest of the work that went around it. I kind of got into that afterwards. So

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Alternate Line: yeah, Jill. Lordy! And I'm absolutely going to be listening to this record.

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Alternate Line: I've noticed a wee trend of you dropping a wee Glasgow song on a track 5 on a weekly basis, and I don't know if it just works on me emotionally or something. I'm just

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Alternate Line: I think it used to be more cynical about music that was made locally. I have to say maybe it was because I was

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Alternate Line: doing it myself a little bit, but I'm much less like that now.

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Alternate Line: I think, and when I hear Glasgow music like we had, what was the track we had? Was it Christopher Haddel?

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Alternate Line: Was that like 3 or 4 podcasts ago, like that was ace that was really really good. I really enjoyed that.

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Alternate Line: so yeah, well, more of it, please, Andrew. More of it, please. Cool well.

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Alternate Line: ladies and gents, that's us at the end of our 5 new tracks. Now that's what we call newish music this week.

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Alternate Line: so we move on now to Andrew's vinyl word. He's in his record palace right now. I can see it.

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Alternate Line: I can see it, and he's gonna take something down from the shelf which

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Alternate Line: marries up in some kind of way with some of the music we've been listening to today, and he's going to tell us all about it just before we get there.

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Alternate Line: And just before I run out of any kind of steam that I had today and my voice completely collapses. I'm just going to say, if you enjoy the podcast tell your pals, tell them to listen, follow us on Instagram, give us positive reviews. And if you want to support the podcast financially, you can just bring yourself over to Www. Dot, buy meacoffee.com slash. We heard wonders. If you send us some cash, we'll spend it on making just pure, more podcasts in that won't we? I think so. Right? Vinyl word. Andrew hit us up.

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay, thank you. So we're going from Black flag, freestyle.

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Andrew's iPhone: and Black Hole 2 of the tracks this week to an album called Black Messiah.

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Andrew's iPhone: which is just about to have its 10 year anniversary. The 3rd Studio album by d'angelo.

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Andrew's iPhone: who I just absolutely love.

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Andrew's iPhone: and so is is album. Previous to this voodoo is just one of my all time favorites. Just I think it's absolutely perfect.

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Andrew's iPhone: And your soul funk record. It's just the grooves on that we're talking about. Groove. Oh, man, the grooves on that record are absolutely incredible.

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Andrew's iPhone: And then, more than a decade after that we finally got black Messiah.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I think this is a record that's

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Andrew's iPhone: just getting better with age as well. It's just. It's it's almost as good as we do for me.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's just truly analog. But this really kind of incredible, murky, funky sound to it.

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay, what is something like sliced stones? There's a riot going on that kind of feel.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yeah, it's just just so tasteful, this record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And I've chosen the last track on the album to play us out this week.

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Andrew's iPhone: So it's another life by d'angelo.

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Alternate Line: Alrighty. Okay, Andrew, we got 99 podcasts.

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Alternate Line: and this is one. So this is our surviving word. This week. Guys thanks for listening. We'll see you soon.

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Andrew's iPhone: You soon, guys.

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Andrew's iPhone: Okay, thank you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Tennessee, and you'll be condom, maybe

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Andrew's iPhone: won't seem to be no T.

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Andrew's iPhone: And we know it comes.

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Andrew's iPhone: I see you, and it's me. Now.

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Andrew's iPhone: Come slowly.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that's just so sweet.

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Andrew's iPhone: Thank you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Shoot me off.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, shit!

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Andrew's iPhone: Show me

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Andrew's iPhone: I went to oh, no, no!

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Andrew's iPhone: This room take you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh, my God!

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Andrew's iPhone: See the rumors in a me right T. 10 T.

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Andrew's iPhone: I'm sure.

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Andrew's iPhone: Ta-ta!

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Andrew's iPhone: I supplies, and just working all the chase, so no man, thank you.

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Andrew's iPhone: T

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Andrew's iPhone: wow!

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Andrew's iPhone: Don't you hear me now?

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Andrew's iPhone: Oh.

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Andrew's iPhone: to you it's a music!

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Andrew's iPhone: It's

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Andrew's iPhone: to you.

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Andrew's iPhone: Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

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Andrew's iPhone: Bye!

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Andrew's iPhone: Never mind

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Andrew's iPhone: 2.

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Andrew's iPhone: You can't

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Andrew's iPhone: me.

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Andrew's iPhone: God!