LIST 169 - 01/12/15

Hello again,

Ever wondered what Metal Box-era PIL might have sounded like had that band hailed from Kinshasa?  Listen to Mbongwana Star and wonder no more.  Lithe, insistent and mysterious, the DCR combo's debut album contains my favourite track of any released so far in 2015, and it's a pleasure to include it here.

Under its previous title, Robberie's Seven Hills vied for similar my top single of the year honours a couple of years back, and at long last a track previously available only in demo form (albeit on an EP and an Indietracks compilation) has been graced with a full release.  Lovely footage of their (and for the foreseeable future also my) home city in the video also.

Grand to be able to offer new stuff from Mercury Rev, Euros Childs, Rose Melberg (in her latest incarnation Knife Pleats) and synthpop doyens (or maiden aunts, if they or you prefer) Blancmange.  Grand as well to include material from Death And Vanilla (imagine a Swedish Broadcast fronted by a Julee Cruise soundalike), plus an act in Bodyheat I last saw playing a set to end a very special wedding party for two very special friends in Bristol.

J xx



MBONGWANA STAR – Shégué (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmsdFU30_k

MERCURY REV - Are You Ready? (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EwvXYG7vA

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Reflections in a Flat (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aHTbS-AuIE

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Evocation (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU07z8N1V40

BODYHEAT - Talk it Over (2015)
https://soundcloud.com/bodyheat-1/talk-it-over

LEMON JELLY – Nice Weather for Ducks (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5jmZCFRQo

DEATH AND VANILLA – The Optic Nerve (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRMj8xsRD2g

DEINE LAKAIEN – Farewell (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-JXy2-wS9c

THE DIVINE COMEDY – Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXxsV874oI

EUROS CHILDS – Fruit and Veg (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyQUOlHfcA

KNIFE PLEATS - Terrible (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk94AIYBJnE

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – Ban Marriage (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdX7YP-vU0U

LAETITIA SADIER – The Scene of the Lie (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPl4a2foZA

BLANCMANGE – Landsea (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYJwrEW0g_0

BLANCMANGE – Blind Vision (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YAvhMTgE8o

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE – Between the Suburbs (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYd8qQUKIaY

SARAH WILLIAMS WHITE – Winter Sun (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY58OroE8mQ

PUBLIC ENEMY – A Letter to the New York Post (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMo3uQpd40

HYDE & BEAST - Keep Moving (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_RrMOtl_I

ROBBERIE – Seven Hills (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HncvdqSXQVY