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Playlist 31.08.14 (9:07 pm)
Good evening! This week we're celebrating ELEVEN YEARS of FBi Radio, which is pretty amazeballs! But I'm just going to play more mostly new tunes because there's so much good stuff around! LISTEN AGAIN because you don't get music like this just anywhere. The FBi site has the streaming on demand (mobile-ready!) and the podcast/download option is right here. Started tonight with a couple of tracks from the Mystery Plays Singles Club, from which I've played at least the Icarus entry previously. These came out in July but I was away at the time. First is vintage Inch-time, with wonderful scraping double bass in the mix, and then Shoeb Ahmad's coda (of sorts) to his album on the same label, bearing no small influence from one of our shared favourite bands ever, Hood. Also, I feel, wearing a bit of a Hood influence along with indiefolk, postrock and even shoegaze stylings is the second album from Newcastle's Firekites. They haven't changed their sound much from their first album, 6 years(!) ago, but this one's drawing me a lot more from the outset. It's one of the year's Australian highlights I feel. And so, on to Hood themselves. I chose a track at (carefully-selected) random from their back catalogue and then something new from the two brothers at the band's core, Chris and Richard Adams. The lovely Richard's main project is his band The Declining Winter, but with hammer dulcimer player Joel Hanson as well as members of Hood and The Declining Winter he has just released the second album of Memory Drawings - and, full disclosure, he asked me to play cello for a bonus track which opens the second disc of the first pressing. And then a great big special on Nick Zammuto, and his much-missed duo The Books. The new Zammuto album is just out now and getting well-deserved rave reviews. It's a fair distance away from the laptop folk / glitch-classical / thingy-thing of the first couple of Books albums, but you could certainly hear most of this sound in even that material and certainly in later Books. He likes playing games with sound (and lyrics) and loves to intimately entwine his technology into his musical composition. But he also has an uncanny talent for gorgeous melody - see the wonderful Harlequin from the first Zammuto album, but I'm pretty sure a few of the newies will find their way into my subconscious like this one did. We finish up with something amazing that I exhort you to check out in full: Names is the project of Boston's Brian C Barth and collaborators, and he's had help from Nick Zammuto in mastering if nothing else. Fans of early (and recent) Grizzly Bear will love the songwriting and singing, but it's also incredibly creative in terms of production and instrumentation, sub-bass pulses mixing with heaving cello lines, weird, impeccably-orchestrated horn stabs and occasionally-glitched-up guitars. Barth's music is one of my happiest discoveries of late. Please follow my lead. Inch-time - Omaha Gold [Mystery Plays Records] Listen again — ~102MB
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