The New Cue #283 May 12: Overmono, Rickie Lee Jones, Queens Of The Stone Age, Lunge, Local Natives, Lanterns On The Lake, Tinariwen, LA Priest, MEMORIALS

"If it's got wood on the sides, you won’t go wrong with it..."

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Welcome to your and our weekly Recommender fix, which also includes two Album To Blow Your Mind selections from LA Priest and MEMORIALS. But, and this isn’t a big but but it is a medium-sized but, the sort of but you could read from 50 metres away but couldn’t see from a plane, today’s edition is for paying subscribers only. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, apart from an actual free lunch but they don’t taste very nice anyway, just say no.

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Enjoy the edition,

Ted, Niall and Chris

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An Album To Blow Your Mind #1

MEMORIALS man Matthew Simms picks electronic pioneers’ seventh record.

MEMORIALS are Electrelane frontwoman Verity Susman and It Hugs Back and Wire guitarist Matthew Simms. Their debut Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb is an enjoyable rampage through bristling post-punk, psychedelic rock and looped experimentation. Here’s their excellent single Boudicaaa:

And here is Matthew on why Kraftwerk’s masterful seventh record twists his melon, man: