The New Cue #478 March 28: Heartworms, Cass McCombs, Kae Tempest, CMAT, Perfume Genius, DJ Python, Lael Neale

"To see less and less live music on TV, I think it's really sad..."

Good morning,

Sun’s out, bum’s out, loads of great new music out. That last one is the thing we’ve covering in this newsletter. We did try a bum’s out Substack but it just didn’t take off. Wasn’t what the people wanted. No, this was the things those nutters were after – Ted and Niall selecting the new music picks that they want you to hear, writing about them alongside some choice Q&As and then putting it into a neat little package delivered to your inbox every Friday morning.

But these top-rated shenanigans are only available to paying TNC customers, that crew of unbelievably decent humans who pay £5 a month for full TNC access. Come in, we’ll show you around, we’ll make you a cuppa, here’s the remote, take a seat.

Here's this week’s playlist:

And here for the Apple Music crew.

Enjoy the edition, we’ll see you on Monday.

Ted and Niall

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Recommender Pt. 1

Niall Doherty

I was so busy hammering the incredible new single by Kae Tempest last week that I forgot to put it in my Recommender, which is an unfortunate oversight considering every week I write about new music I’m enjoying and that was top of the enjoyment charts. What an idiot. My path to redemption starts here, sticking Statue In The Square up top. I still love it and we’ve actually become much closer in the past seven days so I’m glad I waited. A fierce hip hop tune with jumpy beats, a menacing, melodic piano line and a brilliantly barbed delivery from Kae, it’s the first fruits from their forthcoming Fraser T Smith-produced album. It's going to be a cracker by the sounds of it.