Playlist 431 - Jan 24 2017

The centrepiece of this week's show was the interview with Rozi Plain, recorded last month when she played with her band at The Kino in Cork (great gig). You'll find about 6 minutes of that chat in the middle of this set, the full interview will be up here soon in its own right.

A couple of new obsessions.

The Nightjar, a band from Bristol taking folk music into devotional classical music territory with a hint of the ambient avant garde too. Brilliant.

Animals That Swim, a band from the 1990s who fell between Britpop and, I dunno, post punk. They are reissuing their 1994 album Workshy on One Little Indian and it has some wonderful tunes on it - rushes of guitar, and intelligent, literate lyricism.

The Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, a wonderful swinging tune with Brazilian undertones, ahead of European tour in April. Wonderbar.

And Iggy Pop back guesting with Manchester band PINS, more spoken word - I think he should do more of that.

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Playlist 431
Tues Jan 24 2017
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
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Playlist
The Nightjar – Wardrobe
Damien Jurado & Richard Swift – Radioactivity (Damien Jurado playing Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Mar 17)
Bic Runga – Viens
The Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble – Undying love for humanity (playing Grand Social, Dublin, Apr 6)
Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White – Look at what the light did now
Kid Canaveral – Callous parting gift (playing Stereo, Glasgow, Feb 11)

Rozi Plain
Rozi Plain – Actually
Rozi Plain Interview (Excerpt)
Rozi Plain – Marshes

The Last Sound – At the twist
Noveller – Deep shelter
Nadine Khouri – I ran thru the dark (playing St Pancras Old Church, London, Mar 31)
Animals That Swim – How to make a chandelier
PINS feat Iggy Pop – Aggorophobe (PINS playing Moth Club, London, Apr 19)
Michael Nau – Maralou

*next week's show features music from Goldfrapp, Foxygen & C Duncan, among others

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