The New Cue #549 November 21: Kelly Lee Owens, Art School Girlfriend, Plantoid, Daniel Knox, Max Richter, David Byrne
"We made the right choice, and we did the right thing."
Good morning,
Welcome to this week’s Recommender edition, we have some fine recommending coming your way. It’s just me, Niall, this week as Ted is away on compassionate leave. Send him all the good vibes you can muster.
Here’s this week’s playlist:
And here it is for those of an Apple Music persuasion.
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See you on Monday, when we’ve got an entertaining Life & Times chat with Insecure Men man and ex-Fat White Family maverick Saul Adamczewski.
Enjoy the edition,
Ted and Niall
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Niall Doherty
I am not going to hold it against them but back in September the Brighton trio Plantoid released a single titled Dozer that was really good in a Devo-meets-Battles type way until an annoying little jazz interlude arrived in the middle of it. I mean, I guess that is to be expected of a band who described themselves as ‘jazz rock fusion psych rock’ but they also could have not – Dozer was doing just fine until then. It was with trepidation, then, that I pressed play on their new single Good For You and with even more trepidation that I was immediately very into the way it morphs from its dreamy pastoral folk beginnings into an amped-up art-rock epic, all the while noticing that it was six minutes long, ample time for them to do something silly. I am happy to report that they kept their heads this time, which is hopefully more indicative of the album both tracks are pulled from, out on Bella Union next year. See I told you I wasn’t going to hold it against them.
