Ashley Wales’ remix of “You’re No Good”… the second movement of Fucked Up’s rock opera… “I Had A Dream” by The Long Ryders still sounding levitational, right up to the last second when someone observes, correctly, “That was tight!”… Robert Stillman… The People’s Temple ramalam I blogged about yesterday… “The Only Way I Know To Love You” by Joe Tex… Andre Adams… “Supercollider”… and Sun Araw covering Teenage Fanclub, downloaded from the always on-point Raven Sings The Blues… All good…
An extra-long list this week, since we seem to have worked our way through more stuff than usual. A lot of good stuff, too, I’d say, with one or two exceptions, and a tremendous new mystery record that’s coming out in the summer and which hasn’t, I think, been announced as yet – hence the necessary evasiveness.
Thom Yorke and co bring timely, retro magic to their latest releaseThe most enjoyable consequence of Radiohead’s post-EMI mode of operation has been their re-enchantment of the album release. The King Of Limbs was announced on a Valentine’s Monday morning and released for download the following Friday. In between was a five-day festival of guesswork, fabulation and YouTube comedy. It’s as close as rock comes these days to the anticipation we more often associate with a cup final or an announcement from Steve Jobs.
