The New Cue #486 April 25: Chartreuse, Sunflower Bean, Curtis Harding, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Squid, Tyler, The Creator, The Sha Sha Shaminals, Madeline Kenney, Natalie Bergman, S.G. Goodman

“I love seeing the weirdos win.”

Hello,

We are back once again for the Recommender master. We can’t fix a car. We can’t put up a shelf. We don’t know the way to Amarillo. But we do know how to bloody Recommend and we’re going to Recommend you so hard that we legally have to put up a paywall between this and our Recommending because only trusted New Cue subscribers can handle it. It’s also a legal requirement that we keep writing the word Recommend with a capital letter even though it looks weird.

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OK, here we go, this edition is about to begin. Here’s this week’s playlist:

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Ted and Niall

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Recommender Pt. 1

Niall Doherty

There’s been some excellent new music released this week but I had to take a few steps back first and catch up on what I missed during the Easter break. It was just impossible to concentrate on music thinking about what a monumentally big Friday Jesus had that he slept in til Sunday and then went at it so hard that he ascended into heaven. I dedicate all my hungover Mondays to that nutter.

First up on my little rewind is the new single from Black Country quartet Chartreuse, a very pleasing number called Sequence Of Voices that sounds like a folk song having a panic attack, all urgent acoustic strums, tumbling drums and lightly anguished vocals. It resembles pre-mucking around Bon Iver taking on the more uptempo moments of In Rainbows-era Radiohead, which I think I would’ve said without the involvement of The Smile producer Sam Petts-Davies but I can’t be sure. I wouldn’t trust me.