LIST 168 - 30/11/15

Hello again,

Looks like I've enough stuff lined up to be able to offer a List every weekday this week, which is nice.

Among the many phrases I thought I'd never commit to print is "Here's something off the new Juliana Hatfield Three album", and yet here we are, knocking on for two decades since the last sighting of this particular project by the former Blake Babies mainstay.  A particularly splendid single from them first time around is thrown in also.

To these ears FFS, the collaboration between Franz Ferdinand and Sparks, isn't always more than the sum of its parts to be perfectly honest, but the good is still very, very good - they're included here, along with other personal highlights of 2015 (so far - there's still a twelfth of it left!) from John Grant, Haiku Salut, The Lovely Eggs, Wovoka Gentle, the ceaselessly wonderful Berlin keyboard-prodder Barbara Morgenstern and sushi/star/Mablethorpe-loving Nott'nummers Lost Pets.

J xx



JOHN GRANT - Disappointing (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Ig4sMURdc

HAIKU SALUT – Divided by Surfaces and Silence (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yur-GiW0q0

RUTHLESS RAP ASSASSINS – Justice (Just Us) (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFs6lM7cpEY&spfreload=10

LOST PETS – Discount Sushi (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEFndI2PCAo

BEN LEE - Big Love (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3dHdxToZQ

THE CHILLS – Rolling Moon (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmrwC7hFxo

EX HEX – Waterfall (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxIA4042WA

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER – He Didn’t Mention His Mother (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmyIBIfit94

MAMBO TAXI – Poems on the Underground (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6ikRAiJBz4

JULIANA HATFIELD THREE - If I Could (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgYvkAqRF0U

JULIANA HATFIELD THREE - My Sister (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJZXTuwBjA

TREMBLING BELLS – I Is Someone Else (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lawJoUP5I

BARBARA MORGENSTERN with ROBERT LIPPOK and JUSTUS KOEHNCKE - Uebermorgen (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0U2WSfQ5MI

THE WONDER STUFF – Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTVWr2e7qRo

FFS – Johnny Delusional (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxLpte5loY

MARK B & BLADE – From the Word Lab (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHimg-gCVN8

THE LOVELY EGGS – The Magic Onion (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNfRF9pBMY

WOVOKA GENTLE – You Have Saved Our Lives, We Are Eternally Grateful (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yqgovaVPAo

THE GROOVE FARM – Baby Blue Marine (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4aLXamnOQ

FORAOISE – A Bastard (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OJiJQ4PGw