The New Cue #278 April 21: Bar Italia, Lael Neale, Another Sky, Lambrini Girls, Oscar Lang, Hugar, The Last Dinner Party, Mega Bog, Willie J Healey, Joanna Sternberg, Cornershop, Noel Gallagher

And Finally... returns!

Happy Friday to you, happy Friday to you, happy Friiiiday!

Too early for a singalong? Fair enough, I’m writing it on a Thursday afternoon anyway so who am I to judge. Welcome to your weekly TNC Recommender fix, an edition filled with music selections so expertly curated that it’s for paying subscribers only. Do you like The New Cue but you’re not a paying subscriber? Then click subscribe now below – it costs £5 a month and you’ll get an edition every Friday just for you (well, not just for you, the other paying subscribers get it too). Paid subscriptions mean that we can keep delivering what your mate who works in marketing who won’t admit he’s going bald would call bespoke content.

Now onto today’s edition, where we’ve also got a mind-blower courtesy of Canadian indie-punk Cola. We’ll see you on Monday for an interview with Edgar Jones about his excellent new album Reflections Of A Soul Dimension. You can hear Edgar perform songs from the record, plus some of his other choice cuts, live and direct at our special New Cue event in May. There’s still some tickets available here.

Here’s a playlist of today’s picks:

Enjoy the edition,

Ted, Niall and Chris

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An Album To Blow Your Mind

As chosen by Cola frontman Tim Darcy, the 2016 debut from Montreal psych-pop crew.

Cola are a trio formed out of the ashes of the Canadian experimental punk group Ought, who split last year. Frontman Tim Darcy and bassist Ben Stidworthy didn’t sit still for long, though, teaming up with former US Girls drummer Evan Cartwright to form Cola, a tricky SEO proposition but very good new band. Their debut album Deep In View is all rattling art-rock and incessant, warped grooves and they recently released a deluxe edition:

Here, Tim picks the debut album from fellow Canadians Brave Radar as his mind-blower: