This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
“I'm Qualified To Satisfy You"—with its perfect combination of confidence and practicalness—is probably the best chat-up line ever. That Barry does not beat around the bush, even though that's exactly what he wants to do (if you catch my drift).
“Dan Willson of Withered Hand lore is the best writer of melodies currently alive (believe me, I've looked). He hasn't written a song I don't adore. The streak continues here. I'm also happy to report that the songs from a Singer of Songs are also quite lovely, especially the last. Buy this and everything these two outfits have ever produced.”
“This album is the bastard love child of an Iron Maiden and Barry White album—left abandoned in a wicker basket outside a notoriously dangerous pub at the end of the darkest road in some middle of nowhere village.”
EPISODE 080 kicks off with a banger from Carey, and before things close out with an aged-finer-than-wine gem from Yo La Tengo, you'll hear Sarah Jaffe, Psychic Ills, Aidan Knight, and a bunch more goodness.
“Nice Legs are a mix of several related indie-pop genres. Dream pop. c86. experimental. Bedroom pop. They pick up the best of all those and do something new with them. Very good."
EPISODE 63 kicks off with the lovingly lofi Katie Von Schleicher, and before things close out with an absolute surprise from LUKA, you'll hear: Joshua James singing Modest Mouse, Pet Cemetary sampling I Heart Huckabees, Ed Harcourt, my favourite chorus of the year from (Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom) and even more 'good for the ears' things.
“Phenomenally talented songwriter with a great big sound. Expecting big big things to come. Definitely one to catch live, if ever possible.”
“This album is your lovely kind-hearted grandparent that unintentionally says something racist every now & again. Not because they are an intentionally shitty person, but because times are very different now and the goal posts are very not where they used to be.”
EPISODE 083 kicks off with Dominant Legs singing about their girls, and before Califone closes things up with Stitches, you'll hear Benjamin Shaw remixing Frog, Jessie Winslow, Angelo de Augustine and a bunch more. So locate the play button and grab your headphones.
“feels like riding in a car on a day in May and passing every house you've ever lived in, every creek you've ever dipped your toes into. feels like looking into a puddle and seeing tadpoles and realizing that life can happen anywhere. it's as if all my friends have gathered me into a room, and they're saying: 'you made it. welcome home. we missed you.'”
“You are dropped in an alley in the middle of a 70s blaxploitation film. The drugs start to turn on you & pretty soon you don't know what kind of film you are in.”
“Delicate is the perfect title… fragile yet powerful… the kind of album that gets into every part of your brain, heart and soul. I'll be on this one for a good bit now.”
