The New Cue #504 June 27: Yoshika Colwell, Mac DeMarco, The Beths, OSEES, Animal Collective, Apollo Brown, Tian Qiyi, Sprints, Juan Wauters, Great White Shark

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Morning,

Thank God they’ve all gone to Glastonbury, eh. Bit of peace. Nobody hassling you on email. You get served in pubs quicker, buses are half empty, you can leave the back door unlocked. It’s great. We’ve sent friend of The New Cue (not a salaried position) Dorian Lynskey down to Worthy Farm and he’ll wire back his on the whistle report first thing Monday morning, along with some sexy photos he’s taken, so you’re not gonna feel like you’ve missed anything anyway.

On with today’s edition, the good old fashioned weekly Recommender, including a double-handed Release Valve (oo-er) from Yoshika Colwell and Juan Wauters plus all the usual nonsense from Niall and me. Here’s this week’s playlist:

And here it is for the Apple Music crew.

Next week, I have book published on Thursday, A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Recorded, and New Cue subscribers can pick a copy up from the Waterstones online shop with a 25% discount by just inputting the code Loud25 here. It’s coming out on Oasis Eve, the night before their first date, and we’re putting on a big old knees-up at The Social that night, July 3. Tickets are just a fiver and can be bought here.

Alright, on with the show. Enjoy the edition, enjoy your weekend, and hey, stay young and invincible,

Ted and Niall

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Release Valve: Yoshika Colwell

Yoshika Colwell’s debut album On The Wing is released next month on Blue Flowers: part Laura Marling, part Joni Mitchell, part Lana Del Rey, but mostly her own lovely, philosophical musings about Yoshika’s place in the universe set to gentle folk-pop vibes.

We sent her our RV questions to find out more ahead of its arrival…

The first record I loved was…Probably Abba Gold

The last record I loved was…Dreamer Awake by Rachel Sermanni

The musician I grew up most wanting to be is…It’s going to have to be Joni Mitchell (I know everyone probably says that).

The greatest gig I ever saw was…Feist at the Roundhouse in 2023

The greatest gig I ever played was…Maybe the Moth club in April this year, with my dad in the band and all of my loved ones were in the audience.

My favourite group when I was 13 was…Not a group but probably Eva Cassidy… I listened to the album Songbird obsessively. Also, I may have been a bit older than 13 but Maroon 5 released Songs About Jane when I was a teenager and that was a moment.

The story of my new album goes like this: A decade of feeling stuck, and not being able to let things go, finally coming to an end. Catharsis engendered by radical honesty, through frustration out into acceptance and freedom! New beginnings infused with tentative but determined hopefulness, a jump start into an attempt at full blown presence and full blown honesty going forward. It is a hopeful album.

I couldn’t have made the album without…A year living on my own in a Caravan in the countryside, listening to squirrels on the roof, cooking pasta and being very, very quiet and still, allowing myself to feel everything I needed to. I did a lot of crying and a lot of dancing with Elton my cat watching me, and a lot of writing. Also of course I couldn’t have made it without the phenomenal people who were involved directly in it’s creation. All of the musicians who lent their talents, and the amazing Oli Bayston who produced it.