New Music - Mdou Moctar! The Lemon Twigs! Ibibio Sound Machine! Jessica Pratt! Fergus McCreadie!

Gigantic! A big, big love! Iain and Andrew salute the late great Steve Albini, the immeasurably-influential ‘recording engineer’ and sonic architect of alternative rock. We then play and review new music from pod heroes Mdou Moctar and Fergus McCreadie, as well as boys-of-melody/siblings-of-song The Lemon Twigs, UK Afro-funkers Ibibio Sound Machine and the ever-beguiling Jessica Pratt. Something splintering, sprawling and fitting has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio). 

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Andrew's iPhone: And welcome to. We heard wonders. The music podcast that's pouring one out for Steve Albini this week.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, that's right. Yeah. There's a supposed to be a new shellac record coming

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Andrew's iPhone: this Friday, I think, or next.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's just it's mad. That's the way that's worked.

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Andrew's iPhone: and th there was supposed to be a guardian's questions and answers with them as well, saying, unfortunately, Steve Obelis passed away, since we.

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Andrew's iPhone: But I saw a lot of people saying that that's the kind of thing that he would have found quite funny. So.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the list like.

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Alternate Line: famously, maybe most famously, of all, Steve Albini produced Nirvana's record in Uturo, not in

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Andrew's iPhone: It was an issue.

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Alternate Line: Was any through. Why, I was thinking I was thinking of never!

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Alternate Line: I don't know. I screwed myself up there, anyway. Nuzziro famously produced anything after Nirvana had gone, Mega, enormous band with, never mind, that's what I was trying to get out, and I got them switched around the wrong way.

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Alternate Line: and I don't know if you read this online or not. But he got paid a flat fee of $100,000 for producing the records.

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Alternate Line: And he said, basically, and this is the quote that he wanted to be paid like a plumber.

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Alternate Line: I don't know anyone like that.

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Alternate Line: It's like that.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: Would be like, Wow, I can make a big boatload of the cash office. That'd be great. But he obviously had actual models. So that's that's kind of amazing.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, totally. Yeah. And and he he always stayed in Chicago.

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Andrew's iPhone: and you could always book him for $900 a day.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, there was just always that flat fee, and, as you say, never took any royalties for any of his projects, so he just he just saw it as

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Andrew's iPhone: as a job in that in that respect.

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Andrew's iPhone: And you know you you met you said he's he's like one of the most famous producers. He didn't like that Tammy. So himself, recording engineer.

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Andrew's iPhone: yeah. And the kind of idea was that

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Andrew's iPhone: he would try and get out the way of the music as much as possible.

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Andrew's iPhone: and which is quite interesting.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yeah, it's been. It's been really interesting over the last, the 24 h, just seeing the kind of out porting of admiration and love. For for Steve Albini. I don't can't remember last time I've seen that kind of whole timeline just kind of taken up with it.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it's kind of interesting, just the range of records that people have been posting as well that he's been involved with just this. Yeah, incredible.

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Andrew's iPhone: And body of work, whether it be, as you say, with his, with his bands, like a big black and shellac, or just all those records that he's been involved

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Andrew's iPhone: with capturing. Whether it be, should you say, a uturo, or Pg. Harvey, or the pixies that we started with.

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Andrew's iPhone: or slint, or palace music, or Godspeed, or low, or

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Andrew's iPhone: you know Joanna Yusuf and Jarvis Crocker. More recently, there's just an incredible kind of variety of stuff.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah. And

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Andrew's iPhone: even though he's kind of talking about getting it, the way the music. There was something about

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Andrew's iPhone: being recorded by Steve Albini that gave.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the artists that kind of cashier as well, and I think a lot of those records are kind of considered the classic records by those artists, because it's almost like the you kind of get the

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Andrew's iPhone: like a closest impression of what they were actually like as a as as those people in a room

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Andrew's iPhone: which was something that was really really good at caption.

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Alternate Line: He made loads of records himself, and was obviously enjoyed the the whole, the full gamma of the music creating

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, totally. And I mean, there's just no getting away from the fact that

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Andrew's iPhone: the records that he had a hand done have had such a kind of massive impact on

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Andrew's iPhone: providing a kind of thrilling alternative to the mainstream and kind of shaping. What we, what we kind of know is like alternative rock. You know he played such a massive part in that

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Andrew's iPhone: kind of architect of that, that kind of unvarnished, explosive

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Alternate Line: Brilliant. Okay. Well, I think we did their best there to to give Steve the bit of the the old bit there, and we we tasted the Pexies at the top of the show as well. To just remind you of his work. But we got busy old podcast of new music.

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Alternate Line: So we should probably introduce ourselves and then dive straight on into our selections for this week after you, Sir.

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Andrew's iPhone: My name is Andrew. I buy records and write about them on Instagram Kid, Agh. 86.

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Alternate Line: Okay, very good. Andrew is very much a

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Andrew's iPhone: Take me by the hand.

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Alternate Line: Thank you. My name is Ian. I'm a guitarist in Glasgow band. The deadline shakes, and you can find us on all your social medias

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Alternate Line: that's deadline shakes. So this week

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Alternate Line: we have you. You you said last week next week is a big week for releases. And and so big, was it that like I, I spent a bit of time thinking, trying to guess what you were, gonna what you were gonna put on the playlist and a lot of the I I'm not sure if you're gonna use them later. So I'll not see who I thought was gonna be on here. But you didn't. You didn't go for all the things I thought you would have, so

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Alternate Line: I'll keep that. I'll keep some of my predictions for later weeks, just in case they pop back up again.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I I I do know what you mean by that. Yeah, absolutely. It was. It was difficult to kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: squeeze everything in. And but I've I've gone for some pod favorites, and then a few few ones that that are kind of my, some of my favorites that we haven't talked about before as well. But but yeah, th, those those there's quite a few that that I could have chosen

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Andrew's iPhone: to put it that way.

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Alternate Line: Definitely. And I think you're not seeing the names in case you change your mind and have the one next week. So okay? So who do we have? Who? Who's our selection of 5.

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Andrew's iPhone: Say it.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, this week we've got new music from Umdu Moktar.

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Andrew's iPhone: the lemon Twix.

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Alternate Line: so yeah, you said, some podcast. Favorites. We're coming up here, not with a, not with a podcast favorite, but just a legend, a podcast legend.

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Andrew's iPhone: Not a man.

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Alternate Line: And before we listen to and do mocked our before we reviewed and do mocked out for the first time. I remember we were sitting in your M

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Alternate Line: I would say at least indirectly, and possibly directly it comes all the way back to a friend and do moctar.

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Andrew's iPhone: Fantastic. You care to recommend any African literature.

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Alternate Line: And I mean I'm I mean, I really am scraping just at the edges here. But things fall apart by Chinwatchib is A is a classic. And that's that's kind of my starting point. I read it, I think, when I was at Uni, or something, and I'm in the middle of rereading it now. And it makes me want to just explore a bit more. So I don't really know what I'm gonna do next.

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Andrew's iPhone: Nice, very cool. Yeah. And, as you say, I mean, this was like one of the first bits of African music that I think we played in the podcast. And

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Andrew's iPhone: I think, yeah, both of us just immediately were just like, Yep, this is the business.

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Andrew's iPhone: it was Atlanta, the Creator from 2,019 and then aft victim, which was the the 2021 record that we we love so much. And one of my problems of the year that year. And, as I say, this kind of forms part of a

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Andrew's iPhone: Yep, I would definitely realize. As I say, everyone's just kind of ramped up a little bit this time around. So the heavier bits are heavier, the faster bits are faster.

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Andrew's iPhone: the Trixie bits of Trixier.

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Andrew's iPhone: and there's a few kind of tender moments as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and it was finished just months after they'd actually completed work on everything Harmony, which was the previous one. So yeah, just just really prolific

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Andrew's iPhone: If you and I are not wise, which is just a kind of spot on, take on 60 bgs. There's a track called How can I love you more, which is a kind of zombies, turtles, Frankenstein's monster type thing, and then there's there's a track that's a kind of Post Simon type. Thing.

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Andrew's iPhone: the Beatles, as they're gonna appear in the new doctor? Who have you seen the press shots for the people that they've cast for the people.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's all these. But wait until you see the there's a kind of press shot with it all with like with the Beatles light.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's like it's like, I can almost imagine

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Andrew's iPhone: those versions of the Beatles singing some of these songs. If you know, I mean, it's as as I say, it's this like kind of like uncanny valley thing. And it's just

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Andrew's iPhone: as I say, there's just a kind of something that's just a little bit empty to it.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Just sent you the picture of it.

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Andrew's iPhone: They've not made any effort to try and make them look at the Beatles.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Well, it's like, it's.

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Andrew's iPhone: He doesn't. No, he doesn't. You're right.

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Andrew's iPhone: It is.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, just for.

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Andrew's iPhone: I just think it's kind of. It's just kind of tucked into that a little bit, as I say, just kind of fastidiously creepy a little bit but but but but having said that, I still really like the group.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I'm sure that they'll do things in the future that I love because they are just.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know, ridiculously good, as you say, craftsmen, and I just think it's kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: don't know they just I I I heard like, in a view where they where they were talking about how they were recording straight onto tape. And then they were bouncing those tracks, you know the the way they did all those groups did in the sixties. So they're kind of the the going, for, like.

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Andrew's iPhone: you know, just that meticulous attention to detail, but I think so.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Does it? Does you just do.

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Andrew's iPhone: I like all that as well. But yeah, as I say, just

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Andrew's iPhone: But I love that track.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I think I think they'll just. They'll they'll probably

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Andrew's iPhone: turn up with 6 records or something like that.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, just

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Andrew's iPhone: just release.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I can't. I can't even. I can't even imagine what the conjunction up next. But yeah.

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Alternate Line: Okay, so that was lemon lemon to, I switch what I think we're agreeing is like on almost perfect.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I couldn't not bring that track in, even though the the album I'm not so sure about.

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Alternate Line: Okay, that is the sound of your brain on drugs. I'm getting on. That is the Ebbo Sound machine.

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Andrew's iPhone: Cool.

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Andrew's iPhone: God! I've got.

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Alternate Line: So yeah, I think I think that's an obviously enjoyable track. And a again, a a similar system. Octa, I guess, has a blend of

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Andrew's iPhone: Colleague.

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Andrew's iPhone: I thank you. So yeah, I probably will say, machine as an English electronic Afro funk band.

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Andrew's iPhone: That's how they've been termed from Monday.

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Alternate Line: Love, basically.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, and they they formed in 2,013 and this is the title track

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Andrew's iPhone: tolled the rope from. They're just released

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Andrew's iPhone: dash record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and yeah, yeah, I first came across them.

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Andrew's iPhone: I think it's about 2,014. And with their debut album. So the debut self titled record came out on Soundway records who do a lot of these kind of Afro disco reissues really kind of cool

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Andrew's iPhone: Gandhi in.

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Andrew's iPhone: and records that you that you just you would never would have heard

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Andrew's iPhone: without these people kind of on offering them. And the way that that first of a voicemail machine record was

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Andrew's iPhone: we could have designed the kind of the font and the kind of the retro

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Andrew's iPhone: a nature of it, just just it just looked like one of those kind of unearthed

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Andrew's iPhone: records, and they're just a really really cool record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and the sign machine, the aspect of it is is a kind of reference to Miami sound machine, who who did a lot of that kind of like

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Andrew's iPhone: 80 s.

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Andrew's iPhone: Pop, disco stuff, I guess. But yeah. So so there's like that kind of eighties element to it as well.

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Andrew's iPhone: but also a kind of blend of like a post punk. There's a lot of kind of like talking heads and things like that in there as well. And and they could have really kind of marry the traditional under synthetic in a really kind of cool way.

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Andrew's iPhone: and yeah, I I've always just really enjoyed the lead vocals. So it's a British Nigerian, called Eno Williams, who who fronts the group.

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Andrew's iPhone: And she's just an incredible front person, I think. And and and they're another group that I've kind of got this amazing reputation as a live group as well. I would like to see them live at some point.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I I've kind of fell away from from the records a little bit. But I think this this new one is is a good one.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I just just immediately like this track is the kind of the opening table track. I think it's cool.

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Andrew's iPhone: They've talked about working with Sheffield based Producer Ross Orton this time around. So he's somebody who's work with Octa monkeys and mia

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Andrew's iPhone: talk about the fact that they say, Well, Ross is from Sheffield. So he he! So he's just inevitably got this more edgy or industrial symptom that that we have in London, which is like quite funny. It's just like him up north kind of thing.

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Andrew's iPhone: but it's like kind of like. It's just, I think there's a slightly greymier

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Andrew's iPhone: element to to the music this time around. And they've talked about kind of being inspired by kind of like sweaty

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Andrew's iPhone: industrial night clubs and things like that. But that's the kind of ae that they're going for this time around.

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Andrew's iPhone: Brendan Lawson.

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Alternate Line: You know there's not. There's not like the kind of smoothness of that of my golden years by the lemon twigs, where every element is designed to work harmoniously with everything else. This is designed to have, you know, like big stabs of things and horns. That sort of, you know, kind of melt on top of things and and and and even the the lyrics that I reference from before, but just kind of take an ear, cause you just think what's what's being said. There, that's unusual.

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Alternate Line: vibe, although I'm nearly 40, so I've never not been in nightclub quite a long time, so I couldn't tell you about that. But yeah. But yeah, I really enjoyed that track. It's one where.

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Andrew's iPhone: Good. Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. I think there's there's maybe not as much kind of to delve into in terms of the

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Andrew's iPhone: the kind of lyrical content and things like that. But.

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Alternate Line: No, I don't think that is either.

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Andrew's iPhone: But yes, for for what it is. I think it's it's a really good version of it.

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Andrew's iPhone: And and yeah, I'd recommend people checking out the record. There's some really great tracks on it, and some of the the kind of previous singles is one got got to be. Who you are is really really good. There's one called Let my yes Bs.

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Andrew's iPhone: which which is, that's what we'll bang it as well. So yes, so there's some some really good tracks that I'd recommend people checking out on the elbow.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's it's kind of, I guess, like a kind of crumpled paper voice, almost, or something kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: As as her, her, her, her kind of initial records, were incredibly low fiber. When we're talking about recording to tape with the lemon twigs like this was, like, you know, recorded to analog tape. And just as I say, just so kind of sparse it kind of it felt I get it. Kind of felt like

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Andrew's iPhone: some kind of on their thing from the kind of early seventies kind of freak folk type thing. And and so so she's she's a

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Andrew's iPhone: singer songwriter, based in Los Angeles.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that that kind of debut album that she released. It was a set of songs that she recorded.

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Andrew's iPhone: Think it was kind of in the mid 2,000 s. That she recorded it, and it got into the hands of a guy called Tim Presley, who who works under the name White Fence.

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Andrew's iPhone: And he liked the music so much that he actually started a record label to to put out birth records

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Andrew's iPhone: and then it. It got a bit of kind of press at the time, and people were just kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: And then she was signed to Drag City and made 2 records.

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Andrew's iPhone: On your own love again in 2015 and quiet signs in 2019, and they were richer and more high. 5. But it's all relative.

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Andrew's iPhone: and because, like the kind of the the kind of the Ma, the vast majority of quiet signs running time was very sparse, beepless.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it's been 5 years since since quite signed, and and we've now got this at the follow up.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the overwhelming consensus seems to be that this is Jessica Pratt's best record today is getting insanely good reviews this record.

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Andrew's iPhone: and and I wouldn't disagree with that. But I'd also say, I think there's a little bit of recency bias, because I think people may be forgetting just how good, the previous free or as well. I don't think she's made a bad album.

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Andrew's iPhone: I always kind of think as ever the kind of beatles are a good example of this. If you incur things something like like yesterday kind of pointing towards the more, and we can mature

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, there's a track on quiet signs that was called aeroplane, which which would

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Andrew's iPhone: And I think that's kind of where she's gone with this record. It's still quite

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Andrew's iPhone: modest in a lot of ways, but she has kind of branching out in terms of the instrumentation. And there's a lot of those kind of yes, I think it kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: And there's some tropicalia influence in terms of the vocals as well as some of the that kind of freak folk. Early 70 stuff.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so she's talked about

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Andrew's iPhone: and big panoramic, big, sorry, big panoramic sounds that make you think of the ocean in California. That's the kind of sound that she's going for this time around.

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Andrew's iPhone: and she's got a real kind of knack for

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Andrew's iPhone: I I only noticed with this track when I was reading along with the lyrics, that

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Andrew's iPhone: It's not not kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: Good. Yeah. And the albums are really, really lovely.

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Andrew's iPhone: Most artists get more bloated over time. Her records actually get increasingly concise, so that the baby was 41 min, a second was 31,

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Andrew's iPhone: the third was just under 28, and this one's a very lean 27 min, 17 s.

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Andrew's iPhone: Taylor Ambu wants to take note

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Andrew's iPhone: He's been making this record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yes.

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Andrew's iPhone: and again, it kind of we're talking about. Do having a kind of trilogy. This. This is the the third part in Fergus's

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Andrew's iPhone: was Monday backing trilogy, I would call it, you know, cause it the kind of records inspired by the elements.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so yes, we had the one Karen, which was inspired by the the Scottish mountains and stones.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the previous record for this floor, which you know, won the say awards was nominated for the Mercury. It was just a absolutely massive record for him.

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Andrew's iPhone: and that was obviously inspired by

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Andrew's iPhone: the the the woodland and the forest floor. And this this records code stream.

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Andrew's iPhone: So it's it's him delving into the essence of water this time around.

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Andrew's iPhone: So that's what he's been up to.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, if you remember, I I I won a competition. I want a copy of of the record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And as the record before actually.

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Andrew's iPhone: and as part of it, Fergus Hand delivered it to my door in Christmas Eve.

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Andrew's iPhone: No, that's I don't mean to do that.

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Alternate Line: And I don't. I don't think it's more. I don't think there's a track of Fergus's that I know of. That's a better explanation of how

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Andrew's iPhone: I do. Yeah, I think there's definitely something about th, the double base plan on that. That's very kind of

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Andrew's iPhone: very soaky. And I mean. I think I think the title as well is just perfect. Some pillars you just.

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Andrew's iPhone: I can just kind of picture those kind of shafts of light

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Andrew's iPhone: kind of forming shadows in the landscape. I just I think it's it's just.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's really kind of evocative piece of music, evocative title.

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Andrew's iPhone: Hmm.

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Alternate Line: Smash and just piano, and and what I what I think they're best at is they do the thing. I mean all I think a lot of.

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Andrew's iPhone: Hmm.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: Play gekes. They just. They just don't have a plan. They don't have a set list, or whatever. But he he'll he would maybe start playing sun pillars and the rest of the guys come in. But if they start to feel out of it and and just go into something else, it just goes where it goes. So it's it's I don't know. It's it's complicated to talk about, because

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Alternate Line: You. Just you listen to that and just go. This is so Scottish. I I don't. But I couldn't. I couldn't tell you as I'm not smart enough to tell you what is, but it's something in there, something in the intervals between the notes that you chooses or the chords that you chooses. That is just inherently

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Alternate Line: it's been a while. But Fergus Mcrady is a genius like it really just is. There's no other word for it.

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Andrew's iPhone: No, yes, yes.

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Andrew's iPhone: and there's there's so much stunning music on on this record.

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Andrew's iPhone: I'm I'm I'm not sure it's as good as for this floor,

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Andrew's iPhone: Try to provide some kind of criticism.

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Andrew's iPhone: Or or like some kind of no, actually.

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Andrew's iPhone: And I'll say I'll say I'll say one thing. I've noticed that this account there's there's a

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Andrew's iPhone: there's a mode of Fergus that that I like more than

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Andrew's iPhone: maybe other modes is what I would maybe say.

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Andrew's iPhone: So th there's a few tracks that really kind of plays, a kind of slightly higher tempo.

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Andrew's iPhone: and he's like properly playing incredibly fast, you know, like kind of if he's a cartoon fingers. We blurred on the piano. Kind of thing.

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Andrew's iPhone: Ridiculously fast is is the kind of thing that I think could be really really cool to see live

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Andrew's iPhone: when when he does those kind of pieces, just like really kind of obviously technically.

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Andrew's iPhone: mind blow. And it would be like really cool to see live. But I think in terms of like listen to on the record. I don't. It's not quite

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Andrew's iPhone: why I enjoy in terms of what I want from Fergus. I think you know it's kind of got that tradition in terms of the piano trio, as well. I remember when he was on the show he picked the track by the Oscar Peterson trio.

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Andrew's iPhone: and and it's very kind of in that kind of tradition when he's playing in that mode at that kind of tempo, and it's very kind of joyful.

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Andrew's iPhone: And but, as I say, it's just maybe not quite

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Andrew's iPhone: what connects with me for them, for me, as those kind of more, as you say, it's like in the Scottishness of it.

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Andrew's iPhone: and the the evocative nature of it when it's a bit more kind of spacious, a bit more delicate. That's when

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Andrew's iPhone: he really kind of connects with me. And there's like loads of moments like that on the records that really do hit.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah, I mean this, this this track does have a little bit that kind of sip super fluid plane, as you say, but there's a real kind of subtlety to it, and real beauty.

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Andrew's iPhone: real sense of movement in the track that I just think's wonderful.

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Andrew's iPhone: And yeah, I I'll I totally agree here as a genius, and we should give a shout to the other 2 guys in in the group as well. So David Bowden, on double base.

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Andrew's iPhone: and Steven Henderson and Jones, yeah. Just as a trio. They are just incredible. And yeah, just

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Andrew's iPhone: something that makes you really proud

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Andrew's iPhone: to to live in Scotland, I think, can be associated with Scotland. They're just.

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Andrew's iPhone: Absolutely not yet.

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Alternate Line: Nice, very good. Yeah. I mean, I love Fergus, and I think I like appreciated Fergus until we spoke to them. And then I was like, Wow, man, I love this. This is so good. So when I saw this on the line up this week, I was. I was very, very, very happy. Okay, well, there we go. 5 new tracks. This week from October 11 twigs the Bbo Sound machine, Jessica Pratt and Fergus Matthew.

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Alternate Line: And we're just coming into our final segment of the week. Where Andrew. You'd actually sitting next to some records this week that actually are physical. I see they're right there.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yep.

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Andrew's iPhone: Listen.

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Andrew's iPhone: Don't know if you could see that.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's

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Andrew's iPhone: and the original soundtrack of, I think it's like A, it's like a seventies. B movie biker

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Andrew's iPhone: store.

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Alternate Line: I'm gonna have to stop you there. I'm gonna have to stop you there right? Because I'm just gonna say right. And I'm speaking to listeners. Now I'm not even looking at Andrew now. He is a married man.

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Andrew's iPhone: They should, they should.

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Alternate Line: The good Mrs. Hole must occasionally be like. Oh, otherwise I just got the new Taylor swift record in here right.

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Andrew's iPhone: The city.

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Andrew's iPhone: Everyone there.

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Andrew's iPhone: So if you can see that.

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Andrew's iPhone: Little mermaid. It's not. It's not our principal. A few weeks ago. It's the original orchestral electronic score to a 1976 from adaptation of the little mermaid.

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Andrew's iPhone: There you go.

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Alternate Line: And all of this, all of this is so that you can go to your your record, friends, and go well. Do you have the

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Andrew's iPhone: Was that was that was that good as a random selection.

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Andrew's iPhone: Constructive.

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Alternate Line: records that must prove it. That's amazing. And okay. So survivor world, which means Andrew is going to connect something from his record collection to something that just listen today, new.

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Alternate Line: Sometimes it's a very sensible, logical connection, sometimes a little more esoteric. And I like it when it's esoteric. So let's see what it is today.

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Andrew's iPhone: Just before.

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Alternate Line: We get to that, though, I'm going to remind you guys that

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Alternate Line: wicked, sick as a music, podcast please let them know that. And if you want to support the podcast financially, you're possibly saying yourself.

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Alternate Line: can I support this podcast financially and the answer is, Andrew. Do you know what the answer is?

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Andrew's iPhone: No! Tell me.

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Alternate Line: It's yes you can. You totally. Can you just go to Www. Dot buy me a coffee.com slash. We had wonders, and you can buy us an Oh, shaken brown sugar, ace, latty

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Alternate Line: and we will put all that money to good use making making mere podcasts. And I promise. I won't let him buy records like that, and.

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Andrew's iPhone: It's.

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Alternate Line: So your money that will be going towards that. This is a wooden money that he's earned. Right? Excellent. So what's on this week.

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Andrew's iPhone: And so I've decided to place out. We're kind of going full circle. So we came in with a track

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Andrew's iPhone: engineered by Steve Albini, and we're gonna close out the truck engineered by Steve Albini. So

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Andrew's iPhone: this is from a record called the Magnolia Electronic Company.

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Andrew's iPhone: and it was the seventh and final record by Songs, Ohio, which was the project led by Jason Molina.

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Andrew's iPhone: who was a very kind of prolific.

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Andrew's iPhone: really an interest in American musician, singer, songwriter.

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Andrew's iPhone: who died,

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Andrew's iPhone: Tragically young himself from alcoholism, and in 2,013. And since then

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Andrew's iPhone: his kind of reputation is is only really growing.

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Andrew's iPhone: And but this was a record that he recorded

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Andrew's iPhone: with still Steve Albini in Chicago in 2,003,

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Andrew's iPhone: and it's kind of considered the classic album by him.

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Andrew's iPhone: And on this record they're really kind of pulling from

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Andrew's iPhone: a kind of classic Heartland Rock and Folk Rock of the sixties and seventies. So I was listening to an interview

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Andrew's iPhone: that Steve Obanate, done with mark marin on the Wtf podcast and just listen back to us today. Yeah. And and he said on that that the 2, the 2 musicians that you you would like to work with

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Andrew's iPhone: would be Willie Nelson, a new young.

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Andrew's iPhone: and I think in some ways this is the kind of closest that we got to a Steve Albini produce, Neil young Album.

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Andrew's iPhone: And it's it's really kind of got that feel to it.

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Andrew's iPhone: And I just think it's a really brilliant record.

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Andrew's iPhone: And I thought this would be a fitting track to place out with this week. It's not farewell transmission.

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Alternate Line: Excellent, very good. Well.

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Alternate Line: Andrew, that's brought us to the end of this week's podcast. Very enjoyable. Podcast for me, sir, hope. You enjoyed yourself too.

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Andrew's iPhone: I did. Yeah. Great fun.

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Alternate Line: Yeah, played it fast and loose this week, and and so on. Okay, so that's just leaves us to say goodbye and we'll we'll see you guys down the road.

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Andrew's iPhone: Yeah. See, you soon, guys.

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Andrew's iPhone: the side of the town.

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Andrew's iPhone: and death.

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Andrew's iPhone: The resurrected.

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Andrew's iPhone: others will desire.

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Andrew's iPhone: Feel his ghost breathing down.

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Andrew's iPhone: Real truth about it is

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Andrew's iPhone: to the valley.

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Andrew's iPhone: There ain't no end to the desert.

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Andrew's iPhone: La!

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Andrew's iPhone: No, never

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Andrew's iPhone: in its joy.

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Andrew's iPhone: Me! The

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Andrew's iPhone: Hello!

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Andrew's iPhone: Me

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Andrew's iPhone: stars

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Andrew's iPhone: will go

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Andrew's iPhone: static and

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Andrew's iPhone: listen.

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Andrew's iPhone: Long, dark blue

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Andrew's iPhone: has

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Andrew's iPhone: lesson.

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Andrew's iPhone: Long

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Andrew's iPhone: boo!

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Andrew's iPhone: Listen!

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Andrew's iPhone: Long, dark blue

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Andrew's iPhone: listen.

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Alternate Line: So, Andrew, I know the podcast is finished, right? But just before hit stop.

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Alternate Line: I'm going to give a small piece of bonus content for everyone who's listened all the way to the end.

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Alternate Line: Which is simply that

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Alternate Line: during the recording of of that last track there, and our hall lights

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Alternate Line: started to flicker and flash like we had the poltergeist in the house.

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Alternate Line: So if you saw me like sprinting away during listening to that track that it was because

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Alternate Line: it's because of Poulter. Geist was in my house.

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Andrew's iPhone: Gosh!

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Andrew's iPhone: The coast of teams pay.