The New Cue #272 March 24: The Japanese House, Lankum, Amy Lamé, Ben Gregory, Arooj Aftab, Egyptian Blue, Thee Sacred Souls, Silver Moths, The Dream Machine

24 March, 2023

Hello, happy Friday.

Welcome to another barnstorming Recommender edition of The New Cue! Have you actually ever stormed a barn? Really not that much fun, rusty nails everywhere, fags butts, smells of cow, don’t do it, it’s not worth it. In today’s letter, Amy Lamé tells us about how she is both put on-edge and relaxed by early Vangelis, former Blaenavon frontman Ben Gregory sings the praises of MGMT’s third album and Ted, Niall and Chris (one of us is writing this) offer up their favourite musical selections of the week. Here’s a playlist to go with it:

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An Album To Blow Your Mind #1

6 Music DJ, author, club-runner and London Night Czar Amy Lamé picks an early cut from the electronic pioneer.

Vangelis
L’Apocalypse des animaux (1973)

“This is a record that I picked up at a sort of yard sale where people empty out all their junk and sell it - calling it a flea market would be paying it a compliment. It’s music composed and arranged by Vangelis, but before he was just Vangelis, when he was Vangelis Papathanassiou, and it was music composed for a film by Frédéric Rossif. The music is insane. The feeling of the album is in the title Apocalypse Of The Animals. You’ve got one track called Le Singe Bleu, the blue monkey, and you totally believe you’re listening to a blue monkey and there’s one called L’Ours Musicien, like a bear playing a musical instrument, and there’s another one called La Mort du loup, the death of the wolf. It’s so incredibly haunting and so beautiful.