The New Cue #466 February 14: Richard Dawson, Thom Yorke & Mark Pritchard, Horsegirl, Doves, Chimers, Yoshika Colwell
"Less reverb please"
Good morning,
Welcome to another round of Recommender shenanigans. Lots to get stuck into today, including a very enjoyable Release Valve Q&A with Richard Dawson. Shall we just get stuck in?
No, we shan’t, because you know the rules: we need to remind you that today’s edition is for paying subscribers only and that paying subscribers are the legendary bunch who keep TNC’s plates spinning. It costs £5 a month and it really helps in making us sound like we are not just doing this for a laugh when people ask.
It is a laugh too, though. But more of a laugh if you become a paying subscriber:
Here’s this week’s playlist:
And here it is for the Apple Music mob.
We’ll see you on Monday for an epic Life & Times chat with Waterboys don Mike Scott.
Enjoy the edition,
Ted and Niall
Recommender
People like me (this is Niall, hello) moaning how the members of Radiohead need to stop mucking around and get back to the dayjob are probably the reason why they keep extending their hiatus. No, I’m not saying that they all subscribe to The New Cue. But can you 100% say that they don’t? Well then, let me whine. The announcement from Colin Greenwood last week that he would be joining Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on bass duties in the spring and then also playing with Cave on a solo tour throughout much of the summer seems to have knocked the possibility of any Radiohead activity this year on the head and to add insult to injury, they keep putting out really good music, just not together. Yesterday, Thom Yorke released a collaborative new single with electronic producer Mark Pritchard, with whom he made this brilliant song back in 2016 as part of Pritchard’s excellent Under The Sun album:
Now the pair have teamed up properly on a song titled Back In The Game, a pulsing ambient techno number featuring delightfully barbed vocals from Yorke and an excellent and eerily psychedelic video to accompany it:
There’s nothing eerie about the new album from US trio Horsegirl. Titled Phonetics On And On and produced by Cate Le Bon, who by law has to produce at least 20% of all music releases these days, it features some dusty folk (like Frontrunner, which sounds like it’s been made only using the sort of instruments you used to get in primary schools in the 80s), some lo-fi indie gems, some wiry art-rock and, connecting it all, some very lovely and hooky melodies, mostly delivered with a bit of a give-a-shit shrug. Even better.
