The New Cue #425 October 11: Liela Moss, Public Service Broadcasting, Eddie Chacon, The Cure, Gold Panda, Paul Heaton, Tertia, Songhoy Blues

"I’m trying my best not to sound like an absolute joyless fucker!"

Good morning,

Here we are with another Recommender edition of The New Cue offering a steady hand to see you through to the weekend. And we have a bumper one for you today. We’ve got Liela Moss telling us about her new record and making an excellent playlist of the influences behind it and Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose, Esq answers our Release Valve questions.

Please also feel free to nominate your three favourite albums of the past year released by a British artist on an independent label, by emailing thenewcue1@gmail.com with ‘Album of the Year’ in the subject. Do so and you stand the chance of winning tickets to an incredibly exclusive ceremony in December. You can only do that if you’re a paid subscriber, though, and, as with every Friday edition, this edition is for paying subs only too. It costs £5 a month. Less than a pint in most big city boozers except it’s a pint that lasts all month. What a very flat pint that would be, just stick with this instead:

Here's this week’s playlist:

See you on Monday when songwriting legend and national treasure Paul Heaton takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. In the meantime, press this little Share button and spread the word if you fancy (we would like you to):

Ted and Niall

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Origin Story: Transparent Eyeball by Liela Moss

Today, the Duke Spirit singer Liela Moss releases her fourth solo album, Transparent Eyeball. So we thought we’d hand Leila the keys to a new regular feature wherein an artist describes succinctly where their new album is coming from, and then makes us a playlist of its influences. Over to you, Liela.

”Hi fellas! Thanks for setting me to task here. I’m trying my best not to sound like an absolute joyless fucker as I think through some of lyrical, thematic impetus for the new album! Haaaa. Let me try to rewind through some of my ideas…