LIST 215 - 05/12/16

Hello again,

Just as sure to occur as death and taxes, here we are with the first installment of season eight of That Music List.  Did you miss us?

What you'll probably have missed by the time you read this is the recent short tour of Owl & Mouse and Model Village, which reached its conclusion with a joyful Sunday afternoon show in Sheffield only yesterday.  There's something from the latter in today's selection, something from the former tomorrow.

Owl & Mouse do of course include one Hannah Botting, sister of Allo, Darlin' bassist Bill, and undoubtedly one of the saddest music stories of the past few months in my little world has been the decision of the last-named indiepop quartet to draw stumps after this coming weekend's London shows at the Moth Club and the Scala.  Honest, literate and charming, they'll not be forgotten in a hurry.  Nor, of course, will Elizabeth's show-stopping, aching solo rendition of Talulah at Indietracks a few years back.  The band's valedictory single will feature on this site next week.

2016's high attrition rate of musical deaths is regrettably being maintained to the last, it seems, with the passing of 1980s high-NRG/disco performer Colonel Abrams in tragically reduced circumstances marked here with the inclusion of his best-known single.  It won't be the only In Memoriam inclusion this week, alas.

On a brighter note, the first recorded material for - count them - 38 years by folk music figurehead Shirley Collins is a just cause for celebration, not least as the material and voice is stronger than it had any right to be after such an absence and considering the now nonogenerian lost her singing voice for the thick end of two decades in the interim.

All this and more to rake over in today's List, then, and that's before even touching on the majesty of the returning Teenage Fanclub.  Please enjoy.

J xx


TEENAGE FANCLUB – I’m in Love (2016)

PLUSH - Please Don't Let Me Go (2016)

THE AMPS – Bragging Party (1995)

CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – Tilted (2015)

SARAH DAVACHI - Leicht (2014)

ANGELICA – Why Did You Let My Kitten Die? (1999)

THE NEW LINES - Weatherman's Apology (2016)

SHIRLEY COLLINS - Death and the Lady (2016)

SHIRLEY COLLINS - The Cherry Tree Carol (1959)

BITCH ‘N’ MONK – Apocalyptic Fantasies (2016)

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – Spitfire (2012)

KARL BARTOS – Life (2003)

CASE LANG VEIRS – Best Kept Secret (2016)

MODEL VILLAGE – Time to Share (2015)

ALLO, DARLIN’ – Atlantic City (2008)

BJÖRK – Enjoy (Further over the Edge Remix) (1996)

FAZI - 迷幻 (Psychedelic) (2016)

COLONEL ABRAMS – Trapped (1985)