LIST 191 - 26/02/16

Hello again,

Early-ish contender for the most insanely catchy single of the year in this week's List, I reckon, with Animal Collective as playful and poppy as I can ever remember (on their own terms, though). 

A single quote from Edgar Allan Poe common to both tracks is excuse enough to include a new Pinkshinyultrablast track and not-new Propaganda track side by side.  Elsewhere, it's a pleasure to welcome back enduring Canadian electronic artist I Am Robot And Proud; indie/world music magpie Beirut; and indiepop doyen (and University of Westminster lecturer) Pete Astor; plus give a first airing in any List up to now to the wares of contemporary composer/loop experimentalist William Basinski and Bremen/Leipzig-based producer Jascha Hagen.


J xx


ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – FloriDada (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuoIvNFUY7I

PINKSHINYULTRABLAST – The Cherry Pit (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuDscQBInyA

PROPAGANDA – Dream within a Dream (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4E1zMLghhY

THE MIDDLE ONES – OMC (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2Z_X7K-7k

TRICKY – I’m Not Going (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeBB3N4Bo8

DINOSAUR JR – The Wagon (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yxVuNDLmo

I AM ROBOT AND PROUD – Light and Waves (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2KDt31zAw

I AM ROBOT AND PROUD – The Catch (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65k_P7wwizA

MERCURY REV – Coming Up for Air (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64TDcLqzjM

BELLATRIX – Jediwannabe (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4Fv27qGRc

BEACH HOUSE – PPP (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhJRTdmviA

BEIRUT – No No No (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8lOkgyPcaU

THE THREE JOHNS – Death of the European (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLvMMIIrvSI

WILLIAM BASINSKI – The Deluge (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKabjrMeVjo

POSTAL BLUE – I Always Knew (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8g_l47-V0E

BIRDIE – Folk Singer (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPIRvP5nP6g

PETE ASTOR – Mr Music (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ihym05obto

JASCHA HAGEN – Pan That Shit Out of Your Brain (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq6U-aouBfk

LIST 190 - 19/02/16

Hello again,

Seems somewhat appropriate to include a new Cavern Of Anti-Matter track in the same week as featuring old and brand new produce from mainstays Tortoise, given the sustained association of the latter's John McEntire with Cavern frontman Tim Gane in his Stereolab days.  X degrees of separation, post/drone-rock style...

Christine And The Queens' track is classy French pop.  T-Shirt Weather and The School are so many shades of indiepop wonderful.  Electric Cake Salad features a vocal performance so reminiscent of Ozzy Osbourne as to be uncanny. 

And yep, that is the real Twiggy; the Captain Beaky albums from which her selection is taken are a not-at-all-guilty pleasure as far as I'm concerned, considering the project's musical arrangements by same the Jim Parker who scored the amazing Sir John Betjeman albums (as played by the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Gideon Coe and loved by me) only a couple of years earlier.

J xx



T-SHIRT WEATHER – When Your Heart (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvfkh8jarGw

JOHN GRANT – Grey Tickles, Black Pressures (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUw5FhgN4Y

FELT – Primitive Painters (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRdY7ZH7xo

CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER ft BRADFORD COX – Liquid Gate (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPfPQslS-s

CAPTAIN BEAKY & HIS BAND (vocal: Twiggy) – Nathaniel Gnat (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6lq62gNDE

CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS - Christine (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs40yxHjTxQ

TORTOISE - Younder Blue (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUy6cbSEGGY

TORTOISE – The Taut and the Tame (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oegKn6Aw6B8

ELECTRIC CAKE SALAD – Dimenticato (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCjkAkUcQM

VENETIAN SNARES – You and Shayna (video version) (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toZDhQzImyw

RED MONKEY – My Bed and Ancestry (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHQCLlyRiU

THE SCHOOL – Put Your Hand in Mine (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LRy5zOUQw

WILD NOTHING – Life of Pause (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkUDQRqJWWs

PAVEMENT – Carrot Rope (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G53DW71BlNk

FLOATING POINTS – Nespole (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYP7uTZX8Y

MIKA BOMB – Super Sexy Razor Happy Girls (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgpDKLycAk

BULLY – Trying (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LLBBGOfKY

BLUMFELD - So lebe ich (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWAgvjG-6w

LIST 189 - 12/02/16

Hello again,

Further mixed offerings again this time and, sad to say, another in loving memory moment following the passing earlier this week of Des Stanley aka Wild Planet, founder of and guitarist with early-mid 1980s punk revellers !Action Pact!.  The Heathrow Touchdown EP, in particular, will be familiar to John Peel fans of the period, and the later track included at the end of this week's List gives no less accurate an indication of the tremendous amount of fun they were at their peak.  Rest easy, Des.

Ex-Standard Farer Emma Kupa and ex-Stereolabber Tim Gane make an appearance this time around with new produce from their respective Mammoth Penguins and Cavern Of Anti-Matter projects; ditto The High Llamas, the longstanding vehicle of course for another Stereolab alumnus (and Microdisney before that) in the shape of Sean O'Hagan.

Curios old and new include the most Sheffield track ever to reach the UK top 10 singles chart; Bjork doing a spot of jazz all of 26 years ago; and an all too pertinent, biting Smiths cover...

J xx


MAMMOTH PENGUINS – Strength in My Legs (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Sk-ITID20

CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER - Phototones (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0cR-PGKdE

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Focus Pocus / Debiel (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az00dyUbJmY

CALEXICO – Falling from the Sky (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_gfQ9CssLA

CRUMPLEHORNS – On Off (2014)
https://soundcloud.com/crumplehorns/on-off

BRIAN ENO - From the Same Hill (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixF6OsJfOME

KAKI KING – Great Round Burn (2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVG8DJLOs5U

MBONGWANA STAR - Kala (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZxMZBZ628

TONY CAPSTICK – The Sheffield Grinder (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXjp2bf1vo

THE HIGH LLAMAS - Here Come The Rattling Trees (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7h9cfoDlw

THE HIGH LLAMAS – Campers in Control (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGEy2yAM48

JOY AGAIN – Looking Out For You (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx-4NuzjA1Y

THE STRANGLERS – Thrown Away (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmYHEH1P8w

HONG KONG IN THE 60s – Patricia (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqJuhfpwsg

SARAH CRACKNELL ft THE RAILS – Take the Silver (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-MTg5103c

BJÖRK GUðMUNDSDÓTTIR & TRÍÓ GUðMUNDAR INGÓLFSSONAR – Pabbi Minn (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWExAM2ZSYU

ELVIS PERKINS – Hogus Pogus (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqRb8JdWkY

LOW – Spanish Translation (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TJrlemmVQ

THE BOO RADLEYS – Reaching Out From Here (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSgSpnNghQ

THE IAIN DUNCAN SMITHS – Girlfriend in a Coma (She’s Fit for Work) (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5fszZjvMs

!ACTION PACT! – Johnny Fontaine (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5elt4ajvIc