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NYC narcotic rockers Psychic Ills draw inspiraton from the druggy drawl of The Velvet Underground and their later forebears Spaceman 3 and The Jesus & Mary Chain. Athough they don't offer anything new in respect of sound, you can't knock the heritage they align themselves with, and they make a convincing case for continuing that fuzzy, opiate tradition. I feature three tracks from their latest album on the Sacred Bones label this week. Other musical highlights in this edition include new releases from Diamond Rugs, Phosphorescent, VIMES and Daughter plus a wonderful cover of McCartney's 'Junk' by young folk hopeful, Jackie Oates. Enjoy!
I Like It Small 3:40 Mudhoney 'Vanishing Point' (Sub Pop) Hightail 2:26 Diamond Rugs (Partisan Recordings) Bad Days Are Gone 4:28 Sleepy Time Ghost Feat. Lionpulse 'Youthman Riddim' (Unit 137) Take Your Time 2:24 Golden Grrrls 'Golden Grrrls' (Night School Records) Might Take A While 3:45 Psychic Ills 'One Track Mind' (Sacred Bones) The Ballad of Keenan Milton 2:13 Devendra Banhart 'Mala' (Nonesuch Records) Dream Beat (Romare Remix) 6:27 Peaking Lights (Weird World) Down the Line (It Takes a Number) 4:14 Romare (Black Acre) Crystallized 4:01 Melody's Echo Chamber (Weird World) Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded Master) 4:06 Phosphorescent 'Muchacho' (Dead Oceans) Space Academy 4:53 Eat Skull 'III' (Woodsist) Space Cadet 2:13 Flume 'Flume' (Transgressive) Lifeforms 5:36 Daughter 'If You Leave' (4AD) I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance 5:59 Ulrich Schnauss 'A Long Way To Fall' (Scripted Realities) City Sun 4:02 Psychic Ills 'One Track Mind' (Sacred Bones) Stroh "80" 3:58 Casual Sex (Moshi Moshi) Spring Break of the Soul (Edit) Bill Baird (Pau Wau Records) The Universe Is Endless 2:07 Sun Ra 'The Sub-Dwellers (Space Poetry Volume Two)' (Norton Records) Nebulae 3:21 Sun Ra 'Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1' (ESP) Junk 3:50 Jackie Oates 'Lullabies' (ECC Records) A Day's Pay For A Day's Work 3:50 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp) House of Deer 7:43 VIMES (Humming Records) Straight Over My Head Lapalux 'Nostalchic' (Brainfeeder) Boys Born in Confident Times 3:47 Night Works 'Urban Heat Island' (Loose Lip) FBI 3:34 Psychic Ills 'One Track Mind' (Sacred Bones)
I welcome aboard our new US correspondent, Tom Murray, to the show this week, bringing is three music tips from his homeland and hopefully contributing exciting material on a monthly basis. Tom is part of the band Tulipomania, go check them out if you have a few spare moments, I have featured them a few times in the past and I think you will like them - http://www.tulipomania.com/ My featured album comes from Mazes, a lovely collection of wiry, teutonic pop gems. They've definitley progressed from their grungey debut release and this latest is definitley among my highlights of the year so far. Brighton seems to crop up a lot in this week's episode with new music from The Physics House Band, Edible Arrangements and Vision Fortune plus a great new track from Liverpool's Alpha Male Tea Party.
New Dimensions In Sound 3:42 Public Service Broadcasting (Test Card Recordings) Titan 3:06 The Physics House Band (Blood & Biscuits) Everything is Nothing 2:44 The Beaus (Circuit Records) Laid to Rest 5:24 Edible Arrangements (Self Release) Skulking 3:57 Mazes ‘Ores & Minerals’ (Fat Cat) Don't Ever Hurt Me 2:50 Webs 'Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label' (Numero Group) Stellarscope (Europa 51 Remix) 3:35 Vinyl Williams (No Pain in Pop) Space Cactus 5:17 Future Shuttle 'In To It' (New Images) Three Single Sounds Taken in Canon iv 0:43 Daphne Oram 'Electronic Sound Patterns' (Trunk Records) Cosmic Radiation II 2:54 Clinic 'Free Reign II' (Domino) Low Earth Orbit 5:14 Get The Blessing 'OCDC' (Naim Audio Ltd) Bubble Trouble 3:28 Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds 'Gorilla Rose' (In The Red) Groovy & Linda 4:36 Chelsea Light Moving (Matador) Gravediggress (radio edit) 4:08 CocoRosie 'Tales of a Grass Widow' Sucker Punched 3:49 Mazes ‘Ores & Minerals’ (Fat Cat) Skyscraper 3:27 Elephant (Memphis Industries) Truffles 2:29 Alpha Male Tea Party (Self Release) Worn Out Gun 3:52 Anna & The Underbelly (Self Release) Burn Out 2:09 Friendly Lounge (Self Release) Tetrahedron 75 5:03 Dave Wesley (Self Release) Precession 5:25 Anthroporphh (Rocket Recordings) Tangerina 5:12 Mugstar 'Axis' (Agitated) Your Apparition Stays WIth Me Still 4:31 Dreamend (Graveface) XIV 4:44 Vision Fortune 'Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune' (Faux Discx) 'More Parties with...' (Self Release) jatevee C 4:14 Autechre 'Exai' (Warp) Blood Spirit I 3:32 Phaseone 'If I Tell U' (Williams Street Records) Bodies 6:52 Mazes 'Ores & Minerals' (Fat Cat)
I welcome the estimable Arthur Brown onto the show this week as he embarks on a tour to celebrate 45 years of 'Fire', a huge hit in 1968 that continues to burn brightly today. I've included three tracks from his debut album throughout this week's show which should hopefully wet your appetite for further forays into his work. We talked for such a long time that there were some great stories that I had to disense with, so maybe I'll transcribe the whole thing so you can catch up on the rest of our chat. A lot to cram into this week's two hours, including an exclusive reggae & dub guest mix from top DJ & producer, Sleepy Time Ghost. Unit 137 is a loose colllective of artists exploring the outer reaches of bass culture & Sleepy Time Ghost is one of the rising stars of this London based group. You may remember I recently played a cut from his latest 'Youthman' riddim. Enjoy the mix and go go check out his souncloud page - https://soundcloud.com/#sleepytimeghost
Come On Go Wild 2:52 Ralfe Band (Highline Records) Your Mama Was A Grifter 3:33 Star & Dagger (Last Hurrah Records) Child of My Kingdom 7:00 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Polydor) Sharkin For A Living 3:02 Monster Killed By Laser (Self Release) Claw And Tooth 3:44 Rachael Dadd 'Bite The Mountain' (Broken Sound) New Dimensions In Sound 3:42 Public Service Broadcasting (Test Card Recordings) What We Talk About 4:01 Hookworms 'Pearl Mystic' (Gringo) Me And The Devil 3:07 Soap&Skin 'Sugarbread' (PIAS) Laser Wind Tunnel 2:17 Mo Kolours 'EP3: Tusk Dance' (One Handed Music) Interview with Arthur Brown Fire 2:55 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Polydor) I Put a Spell On You 2:30 Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Sony) Come and Buy 5:44 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Polydor) Stellarscope 4:01 Vinyl Williams (No Pain In Pop) A Lonely Flight to EroDru-10 4:15 Space Dimension Controller 'Welcome To Mikrosector-50' (R&S Records Noise Body II 4:53 The Creaking Chair 'Noise Body EP' (Bouffant Records) Guest Reggae/Dub mix from Sleepy Time Ghost
1. The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte [Pressure Sounds] 2. Johnny Clarke -
Cant Keep A Good Man Down - [Clock Tower Records] 3. Yellow Man - Galong
Galong Galong [Greensleeves] 4. Jah Batta - Argument [Wackies] 5. Anthony
B - Raid Di Barn [Greensleeves] 6. Sleepy Time Ghost feat. Lionpulse - Bad
Days Are Gone [Unit 137] 7. Sleepy Time Ghost feat. Ras Demo - Rule Your
Destiny [Unit 137] 8. Million Stylez - Root Of All Evil [Fury Bass] 9.
Solo Banton - Chalice Haffi Blaze [Reality Shock Records] 10. Jimmy Screech -
Wood For The Trees [Map Music Ltd.] 11. Mr. Williamz - Babylon In Helicopter
[Necessary Mayhem] 12. Sleepy Time Ghost - Youthman Dub (Joe Ariwa) [Unit
137] 13. Sleepy Time Ghost feat. Lionpulse - Bad Days Are Gone (Hylu &
Jago - Remix) [Unit 137] 14. High Tone feat. Pupa Jim - Rub-a-Dub Anthem (Dub
Axiom) [Jarring Effects] 15. Papa San & Lt. Stitchie - One More Request
[Fashion Records] 16. Hylu & Jago - Anansi Dub (S.T.G) [Unit 137]
The new solo album by This Morning Jacket frontman, Jim James, is a transcendental masterpiece. It offers a pure, crystalline experience that makes me want to don an old sackcloth and go live in the mountains. It just touches that part of the brain that registers a sublime set of tunes and delivers a spiritual questioning a bit like Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'. It deserves to be listened to in its entirety and I'd gladly play the whole thing if broadcast rules allowed me to. Whilst your rummaging for that sack cloth and searching for a silent retreat listen out for BLESSA too. They're from Sheffield, sound like a cross between early Lush and The Cocteau Twins and seem set to make an impact if they continue to impress live audiences like the one I was part of earlier this week. I also welcome back our Nordic correspondent, Carmel McNamara, for three more musical tips from the north countries - another perfect selection from our roving tune hunter.
Starry Eyes 2:39 Veronica Falls 'Found Love In A Graveyard' (Captured Tracks) She Lives in a Time of Her Own 2:56 The 13th Floor Elevators (Charly Records) Gargoyle 4:55 Ferox 'Gargoyles EP' (Black Acre) 2020 4:14 Suuns 'Images Du Futur' (Secretly Canadian) God's Love To Deliver 3:37 Jim James 'Regions Of Light And Sound Of God' (V2) Alligator 2:36 Super Wild Horses 'Crosswords' (Remote Control) Our Dream 2:53 Soosh 'Colour is Breathe' (Error Broadcast) Lucid Dreams 4:16 Astronautica 'Replay Last Night' (Alpha Pup Records) Size Meets The Sound 3:09 Woods 'Bend Beyond' (Woodsist) Puppets Dangling 3:42 Jacco Gardner 'Cabinet of Curiosities' (Trouble in Mind Records) Taking Out the Trash 6:42 Endless Boogie 'Long Island' (No Quarter) Yoro Diallo 5:14 Egyptian Hip Hop 'Good Don't Sleep' (R&S Records) Lifeisin 3:20 Carmen Villain (Smalltown Supersound) All Returns 3:39 Wolf People (Jagjaguwar) Of The Mother Again 3:54 Jim James 'Regions Of Light And Sound Of God' (V2) Landing 4:51 Thought Forms 'Ghost Mountain' (Invada) Stac 6:58 Barnt 'Ariola' (Comeme) Living With You 6:37 (Laurel Halo Remix) John Cale Mountains Crave 3:35 Anna Von Hausswolff 'Ceremony' (Kning Disk) The Backbone 3:45 Lay Low Though It Aches 3:53 Daniel Norgren (Pop Up Records) Unfurl 3:44 BLESSA (Self Release) Things In My Head 2:39 Pure X 'Crawling Up The Stairs' (Merok) For You 3:34 The Merrylees Dear One 3:11 Jim James 'Regions Of Light And Sound Of God' (V2)
Soon, Soon, Soon 3:23 Kevin Ayers 'Joy of a Toy' (EMI) Green Eyed 2:53 September Girls 'Green Eyed/Danny Wood' (EmuBands) Ichiban 3:39 Sex Hands (Self Release) Sucker Punched 3:50 Mazes 'Ores & Minerals' (Fat Cat) Undercover 6:10 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino) Time Lost (Radio Edit) 3:35 Portasound (Blood & Biscuits) Jeff Leopard 4:00 Gallops (Blood & Biscuits) AM Portal 5:53 LONE Tunnel 5:41 Matmos 'The Marriage of True Minds' (Thrill Jockey) Here We Go Again 3:27 Christopher Owens 'Lysandre' Bound To The City 3:52 The Age of Glass (Self Release) Beyond The Edge of The World 3:27 Praguedren 'Kartography' (Dank Disks) Heaven's Sins 5:02 Piatcions 'Heaven's Sins EP' (Fuzz Club Records) The Dark Age 3:43 Widowspeak 'Almanac' (Captured Tracks) The Flower Lane 4:29 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino) Coming Out of the Fog 5:28 Arbouretum 'Coming Out of the Fog' (Thrill Jockey) My Heart Beats Veronica Falls 2:59 'Waiting For Something To Happen' (Bella Union) I Can't Do it 2:52 39th & The Nortons 'On Trial' (Evil Hoodoo) Interview with James Young of Darkstar Time Away 3:22 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp) Iridescent Asteroid Mists 4:30 Vox Mod feat. Shabazz Palaces 'Syn-aesthetic' Interneta Abstractca 4:26 Fature 'An Abstract Tomorrow' (Self Release) Machineries of Joy 3:47 British Sea Power 'Machineries of Joy' (Rough Trade) Ivy Covered House 3:30 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino) http://www.mixcloud.com/Pipemachine/orange-flavoured-pipe-machine-220213/
Now Listen! 1:58 L. Pierre 'The Island Come True' (Melodic) Snapdragon 2:42 Kaleidoscope 'Further Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1967-69' (Universal) Lithium (Nirvana Cover) 2:44 Marika Hackman 'Covers EP' (Self Release) Youthman Dub 4:26 Sleepy Time Ghost feat. Joe Ariwa (Unit 137) You Don't Need a Weatherman 5:17 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere (Warp) Circle of Trust 3:13 Ooga Boogas (Aargh! Records) Casyam_59#02 4:06 Gold Panda 'Trust EP' (Ghostly International) All Returns 3:39 Wolf People (Jagjaguwar) Yellow Wood 5:41 Esben & The Witch 'Wash The Sins Not Only The Face' (Matador) Statues 4:29 Hüsker Dü 'Amusement' (Numero Group) Dirty Room 4:37 The Go (Burger Records) Cathouse 2:35 Pissed Jeans 'Honeys' (Sub Pop) Silver Cloud Dream Come True 7:04 Actress 'Silver Cloud EP' (Werkdisks) Bardo States Dream Walker Version 4:11 Run DMT 'Stones Throw and Leaving Records Present: Dual Form Electronic' (Stones Throw) A Day's Pay For A Day's Work 3:50 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp) Something That Feels Bad is Something That Feels Good 3:32 Haunted Hearts (Zoo Music) Identical Ship 3:05 Mountains 'Centralia' (Thrill Jockey)
You Come Down 2:54 Marika Hackman (Paradyse Records)Interview with Marika Hackman at The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield 09.02.13 Cannibal 2:59 Marika Hackman (Dirty Hit) San Francisco 3:48 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic' (Jagjaguwar) The Lonely 5:22 Lorelle Meets The Obsolete 'Corruptible Faces' (Captcha Records) Homosapien 4:24 PVT 'Homosapien' (Felte) Cloud in Places 4.06 Grouper 'The Man Who Died In His Boat' (Kranky) Armonica 3:42 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp) http://www.mixcloud.com/Pipemachine/orange-flavoured-pipe-machine-150213/
At just twenty one years old, Marika Hackman can be confident
in her abilities as an artist and performer, mainly because her songs delve
into themes that inspire deeper reactions than a mere pretty ditty. She draws
on myth and legend and explores the dark corners of literature and landscape to create odd
tales of lost love, missing body parts and weird incantations. I caught up with
her after a spellbinding performance in Sheffield, at a venue that more than
matched her delirious, hallucinatory imagery.
OFPM: Hi Marika. It was great to see you performing at The Lantern
Theatre tonight, the perfect environment for your unusual, surreal
compositions.
MH: Yeah, I walked in and I thought “This is perfect”,
exactly the type of venue that I love playing in. It’s amazing, so sweet and a
bit surreal because it’s so small, but it’s still so ornate and like a theatre.
A bit strange, but I like that…
OFPM: So how’s the tour progressing? You’re about half-way
through now, enjoying it so far?
MH: Yeah, very much so. It’s really nice to play to audiences that are really
quiet, because they’re all sitting down and I think they’re all pretty much hardcore
music fans. It’s just nice to feel a bit more appreciated than those kind of
rowdy crowds where you don’t really know how it’s going down. You can never
really tell when everyone’s chatting all the way through, you don’t even know
what your performance has been like because you can’t even hear yourself. It’s
nice to just stand up in a silent room and have everyone’s attention.
OFPM: You’ve only
been in the public eye a short time, so tell us a bit about yourself. How long
have you been writing songs?
MH: Kind of as long as I can remember, but probably anything worth listening to
from maybe since I was about sixteen. I can remember writing a song when I was
about six and playing it to my headmistress at my primary school. Don’t think
it went down very well (laughs).
OFPM: Where does that come from? Are
your family musicians?
MH: Yeah, everyone in my family loves music and there was always music playing
when I was younger. My Dad played piano and flute and was in a few bands and things
like that. My Grandpa plays saxophone in a jazz band, my Granny’s a piano
teacher and my Mum played piano as well. It’s all just in there I think. Somewhere…
OFPM: Amidst a sea of singer-songwriters, you really stood
out when I first heard you. What struck me at first were your lyrics. There’s a
real fairy tale, dreamlike quality to them. They’re also very literary and
evocative.
MH: Yeah, I’ve always read a lot. I’m a bit of a bookworm. My Mum used to read
to us every evening. Until the age of about twelve or thirteen she still was
doing it, and when we were in the car or in the bath we always had story tapes
on. I do a lot of train journeys for about three hours at a time and I just sit
down and read a book and no one can talk to me. My Mum gets really angry when I
get a new book ‘cos I’m like “aggh, just leave me alone, I want to read.” I never really think when I’m reading
something, “I’m going to write something in the style of this, or write about a
similar kind of thing,” but it obviously all goes in somewhere and comes out as
something else…
OFPM: It strikes me that there’s a Grimm’s Fairy Tales aspect to some of your
songs.
MH: I never really read Grimm’s Fairy Tales that much, but we read a lot of
fairy tales. They’re all really dark though aren’t they? I think I just bring
that side of it out. I don’t really think about it when I’m doing it. I grew up
in the countryside and I lived on the edge of woods and by fields and things
like that. I think I just injected this weird, dark side into it.
OFPM: How do your songs come into being, with the lyrics or a melody on the
guitar?
MH: I usually write by playing around on my guitar and kind of humming and singing
random bits of words and vowel sounds and things like that. It will just sort
of click, and that will be the start. I’ll keep working on that melody and then
a lyric will just pop in and it will fit just perfectly, then I can see where
it’s going. It sounds a bit cheesy and lame, but I follow the song rather than
trying to force it out, but generally it knows where it’s going.
OFPM: You guide it into existence? That’s great. There’s a wonderful descriptive
quality to your songs too. I find a lot of modern literature very frustrating,
as it seems to revolve around dialogue most of the time. Have you ever thought
about writing a book?
MH: I actually did really want to be a novelist or a poet when I was about
eight. Up until the age of about twelve or thirteen I wrote poems a lot. I wrote
lots of beginnings of stories and I would think they were going so well, but then
they would just run out of steam. That’s why I think writing a song is better,
because it’s shorter.
OFPM: Tell us about your new album.
MH: It’s a mini-album, just seven tracks. I wrote a few of the songs a couple
of years ago whilst I was still at school and I wrote some about six months ago,
so there’s quite a wide span. I worked on them with Charlie Andrew who produced
the Alt-j album. I was just so excited about that before I went into the studio
with him. It sounds a bit different to what people might expect from me because
I haven’t gone down the traditional folkie route. I‘ve tried to take it
somewhere a bit different, somewhere a bit abstract.
OFPM: Is that a consequence of spending more time in the studio?
MH: I was kind of doing that on my demos at home anyway and Charlie just
listened to what I said. He had some great ideas and we really worked together,
there wasn’t any overriding thing going on. We were just working as a team. I’m
really interested to see what people think, whether they will be shocked and
surprised or whether they’ll just think it’s different.
OFPM: There’s a song you played tonight, ‘Retina Television’ which sounds very
different on the album.
MH: We decided that we would do a track without any instruments on it
whatsoever, and all the sounds on it had to come from me. So all of the chords
that would usually be played on the guitar are hummed, and the percussion on it
is me hitting myself and jumping up and down and tapping my tooth and stuff
like that. It sounds kind of ethereal and strange.
OFPM: What are your visions for the future? Have you got an idea of where you
want to be or what you’d like to produce?
MH: I try not to think too much into the future because I never really know
what’s going to happen just two months in advance. I never really know what’s
going to happen, so I try to focus on what I’m doing right now. This industry
can change so quickly. You never know, in a year’s time I could be not doing
anything or completely change my ideas and go off to Uni or something like
that. I like to focus on what’s coming up in the very near future and make sure
I’m doing it to the best of my abilities.
OFPM: How are you adapting to this process of being interviewed
by strangers and going out on tour and performing to a different audience every
night. Is it something you feel comfortable with?
MH: Yeah, you definitely get into the routine of it. I think
you just have to; it’s a way of life, a job. The first tour I did I felt a bit
homesick and a bit daunted by it. It was a pretty full-on tour. It was five
weeks on a bus with eleven guys and I didn’t know anyone. That was quite
hardcore, but after a couple of days you just think “I’ve got to get on and do
it” and then you start having fun and enjoying it.
OFPM: Thanks for talking to me Marika, it’s been wonderful
to meet you. You’ve only had a couple of singles out; but your music has become
a real staple of the show over the last few months. I’m really looking forward
to hearing the new album and seeing you succeed in the future.
