LIST 171 - 03/12/15

Hello again,

For the first time this season we have a List which necessarily includes a track in loving memory, following the passing today of Delta 5 drummer Kelvin Knight.  Mind Your Own Business, as covered by a slew of artists over the past three decades (possibly most famously Chicks On Speed) would have been an obvious and worthy choice of track, but I've gone for something I like a little bit more.  As active and important in the Rock Against Racism movement as late-1970s/early-1980s Leeds contemporaries Gang Of Four (and on occasion with the physical scars to prove it), Delta 5 were well worth the critical reappraisal afforded them by the 2006 reissue of some of their work on Kill Rock Stars.  Rest easy, Kelvin.

Elsewhere in this grab bag List, there's new(ish) stuff from Real Estate spin-off Ducktails; outstanding Krautrock/Tangerine Dream/Jean-Michel Jarre-influenced duo Melodien; the East Midlands' finest spoken/shouted word misanthropes Sleaford Mods; tracks from each end of Built To Spill's two-and-a-bit decades' worth (and counting) of output; and further proof from Ringo Deathstarr that you don't necessarily need Lush to reform to hear new Lush-like material.

The most astonishing new track on the List, though?  Without a shadow of a doubt, In Heels by Tall Dark Friend - Jordan Gray's impassioned, incendiary, smart and highly articulate account of her own transgender realisation and experiences in deepest darkest Essex.  Scroobius Pip is a fan.  It's not at all hard to see why.

J xx


SLEAFORD MODS – No One’s Bothered (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM2f0YWhP9o

THE LUCKSMITHS – I Prefer the Twentieth Century (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-WvlTwroM

MELODIEN - Narkotic (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmkSjnknC8I

ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT - Two Doves on a Lake (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBewUBLwV7w

THE FALL – A Past Gone Mad (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8csC5UWwDg

DUCKTAILS – Headbanging in the Mirror (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vvvuo4R2o

J DILLA - Dillatronic #41 (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_butsqOLVog

SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER – Catwoman (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5coA8mPaQs

STAR TROPICS – Swept Away (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTbU8wYagaU

SLUG - Greasy Mind (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZIO9KPa6wQ

CHRIS T-T – The English Earth (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkLDIsqTeI

BUILT TO SPILL - Living Zoo (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hgRgO5y0f4

BUILT TO SPILL – Car (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omZ5GsuGrI

TALL DARK FRIEND – In Heels (demo) (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIfgH79SKg

LOVEYDOVE - Gently As You Feel (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz64VOlMUc

DELTA 5 – Anticipation (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjP4NQYB6xs

RINGO DEATHSTARR - Guilt (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAVv5G1jkW4

WIRE – The Point of Collapse (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5F3CzikRmU

LAURA VEIRS – America (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8pHPf15zE

TWERPS – Back to You (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-3z3vkLFg

BIG YOUTH – Four Sevens (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRoW3DFqC1E