The New Cue #578 March 20: Tara Clerkin Trio, The Orielles, White Fence, Ed O'Brien, Ellie O'Neill, The Afghan Whigs, Cola, Genesis Owusu, ZENA, Son Little, Moss Side Sauna Club
"A very boomer take..."
Good morning crew,
It’s Friday, it’s the beginning of astronomical spring and we have some astronomical recommending to go with it. Shout out to all you meteorological spring believers too, we are all inclusive here.
To a point, anyway: like every Friday, full access to our Recommender editions are for our elite, much-loved, obscenely good looking and charismatic paying subscribers. They pay £5 for the privilege and are the ones who keep this ship afloat. You can join them here:
OK, let’s crack on. Sandwiched in between our Recommenders today, we have a Release Valve Q&A with The Orielles. What a tasty sarnie that is.
Here’s this week’s playlist:
And here it is for the Apple Music crew.
See you Monday, enjoy the edition
Ted and Niall
Recommender Pt. 1
Ted Kessler
Each week’s Recommender compilation involves a frantic trawl through the many hundreds of emails sent about new music, the Internet, a selection of barely legible notes of release reminders I’ve made on the bills splayed out next to my laptop, as well as those social media accounts of friends in the music business who I know, trust and whose taste I routinely steal from. This week I thought I’d got ahead of the competition when I saw that World of Echo, the excellent East London record shop run by two of the capital’s coolest cats, Natalie Judge and Stephen Pietrzykowski, had announced they’d be releasing an album by Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio on June 5th, and that it was previewed by an aptly-titled and languid six-minute stroll through pastoral psychedelia called Somewhere Good. I then thought I’d google the Trio for more intel and saw immediately that Pitchfork had just that moment picked Somewhere Good for their Best New Track slot. Sigh. I’d have got away with it if wasn’t for those pesky kids. Somewhere Good reminds me a little of music from the pre-Britpop early ‘90s, of Seefeel, Stereolab, Laika, Ultramarine, experimental groups making accessible grooves without choruses. Everyone should follow World of Echo for more tips.
Mainly picking Fantasy by Moss Side Sauna Club because it’s such a great band name, conjuring up so many images of just what a sauna club in the drenched concrete jungle of Manchester’s Moss Side would be like – but also picking it because Fantasy is an extremely catchy number, an electronic pop groove that conjures up the most illustrious cagouled indie dancefloor ghosts of their hometown, such as Happy Mondays and New Order.
