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Thursday, Nov 19 2020, 10AM
Released in 2007, '23' is Blonde Redhead's seventh studio album. AllMusic wrote that on '23', Blonde Redhead "trades the cloistered chamber rock of 'Butterfly' for tone-bending dream pop and subtle electronics; while the wide open spaces sound a little bare at first, this streamlined approach ends up making this Blonde Redhead's loveliest and most accessible work yet..... The epic title track's delicate electronic rhythms, swooping, shimmering guitars, and majestically bittersweet melody pitch it somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and Asobi Seksu, showing how a more restrained Blonde Redhead can still sound lush and haunting." www.allmusic.com
Y La Bamba played "Cuatro Crazy" live in Brooklyn in February 2020, right before the lockdown. If you are missing live music as much as we are, this will help. youtu.be
ylabamba.bandcamp.com
The debut solo album from Melody Prochet is a record of enchanting, psychedelic-tinged pop with just the right amount of thematic darkness. Produced by Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, Melody's Echo Chamber is one of the more satisfying LPs in recent times to bear Broadcast's influence.
pitchfork.com
An underwater clip doused in a psychedelic color palette: youtu.be
melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com
Arlo Parks will release her new album, 'Collapsed In Sunbeams,’ January 29, 2021 on Transgressive Records. bit.ly
Follow her on Bandcamp for her upcoming release: arloparks.bandcamp.com
German producer Marius Lauber performs as Roosevelt. He just announced the upcoming album 'Polydans,' due out in February 2021. He's calling it a "love letter to dance music", and from the sound of this track, that feeling is spot on.
In a press release, Roosevelt says “Feels Right” is about the “feeling of stoic empowerment. When I wrote the song, it began with an ESG-influenced funk loop, which even in its rawest form had something very euphoric and playful. It’s definitely one of the songs on the album that came together really easily — one of these where the song dictates which direction to go rather than you overthinking it for weeks.” acidstag.com
iamroosevelt.bandcamp.com
Released in July 2008, the music video for "Kim & Jessie" ranked number 47 on Pitchfork's list of the top 50 videos of the 2000s. pitchfork.com
The video depicts two teenage roller skating girls who, at the end of the clip, are seen kissing male roller bladers. Watch it here: youtu.be
MorMor is Seth Nyquist, the Toronto-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist and had this to say about his first release of the 2020: “Though I tried to continue writing [in March] it didn’t feel right. I was told I was being hard on myself, but I have always used music as a way of making sense of things. Suddenly there were just too many things to make sense of: A Global pandemic, the sudden lockdown, shortly followed by the protests. Voices were raised around the world because people have had enough. Mourning has become so painful that people are demanding changes. I felt I had to reflect that.”
diymag.com
Seth Nyqust (MorMor) performed "Don't Cry" during a recent KEXP Live at Home session with Cheryl Waters: youtu.be
Cigarettes After Sex is an ambient pop collective led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez & is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. cigarettesaftersex.bandcamp.com
Check out Cigarettes After Sex performing live in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
Songwriter/violinist Brittney Parks constructed Athena as an album to be heard end-to-end. It starts as biography, reaching back to remake "Did You Know" — the first song she recorded as a teenager — followed by "Confessions."
"It’s about duality and this battle within your inner thoughts, and you’re trying to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong, and it leads to this sense of oneness where nothing’s really right and nothing’s really wrong. Your life is just crazy, girl! And it has this magical twist on it, and it’s supposed to be this soundtrack of the making of a goddess." www.nytimes.com
sudanarchives.bandcamp.com
Caroline Rose shared songs she recorded exclusively for KEXP and chatted with DJ Atticus. Check out the full KEXP Liive at Home performance & interview here: youtu.be
Au Pairs is a British post punk band formed in Birmingham in 1978 and continued until 1983. 'Playing with a Different Sex' is the debut studio album, released in 1981. In its retrospective review, AllMusic described the album as "one of the great, and perhaps forgotten, post-punk records." www.allmusic.com
Happy Birthday Adam Z!!!
Live "Gimme Shelter": youtu.be
The Shivas just released a group of unedited demos from 2010-2016, and all proceeds go to dontshootpdx.org. You can only find it on their Bandcamp page: theshivas.bandcamp.com
Portland's The Shivas performed a mesmerizing set in KEXP's Live Room on November 2019. Watch the full performance, which opened with this track, right here: youtu.be
Dig deeper into this album, of which guitarist/ singer Jared Molyneux says, "We just want to make people feel good. We want them to forget they have to work tomorrow." theshivas.bandcamp.com
Big Joanie performed live at Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, London, during KEXP's 2019 International Clash Day broadcast. Watch the full set, including "It's You," here: youtu.be
bigjoanie.bandcamp.com
Watch Brittany Howard perform this track off her debut solo album live at KEXP in 2019 here: youtu.be
"Ireland’s abiding electropop queen" Róisín Murphy is also one half of triphop duo Moloko.
Pitchfork wrote:
“‘Murphy’s Law’ is our crack at a straight up, straightforward, no-frills, disco standard,” Róisín Murphy said in a statement. “Oh and it’s the story of my life. It’s about the nature of the past, it’s often a difficult thing to outrun but it can also be quite comforting. When is it valuable heritage, and when is it something that's holding you back? Time and time again I return to Sheffield and my friends there. I go when I need to reconnect to a scene and to music that’s about something! And to feel the belonging.”
pitchfork.com
New track from Anderson .Paak! The track is produced by Timbaland, Shucati, and co-producer the BREED. For this song, .Paak depicts a scenario where he's trying to court a woman but has yet to reach his final form. www.complex.com
Watch Anderson .Paak and his son dance to "Jewelz": www.instagram.com
Official music video for "Jewelz": youtu.be
Moon Duo has stopped by KEXP for a few live sets in the studio. Hypnotizing and totally worth watching these: www.youtube.com
moonduo.bandcamp.com
Chromatics is from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2001. The band consists of Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, Nat Walker, and Johnny Jewel.
'Twin Peaks' facts:
In 2016, Chromatics played at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks, Washington, performing "Shadow." Residents of town who turned out included Shelly, her friends Hannah and Renee, and James Hurley with his friend Freddie Sykes.
twinpeaks.fandom.com
The Chromatics' Johnny Jewel was working his synth-chill magic on this remix for The Weeknd's global hit. Chromatics' vocalist Ruth Radelet also appears on this re-work.
Remix music video: youtu.be
Peckham post-punks Goat Girl will release their second album, 'On All Fours', via Rough Trade in January.
"'Sad Cowboy' centres around the idea of losing a grip on reality and how often this can happen," says Goat Girl’s Lottie Cream. "When you’re within a world that constantly makes you feel as though you’re living out a really bad dream, disillusionment is inevitable." ourculturemag.com
You can watch the band's darkly surreal video for the song here: youtu.be
goatgirl.bandcamp.com
Indie-underground rising star Cut Worms (a.k.a singer-songwriter Max Clarke) honored the late Tom Petty with a cover of “Louisiana Rain,” released on October 20th. 'The Damn The Torpedoes' cover comes on what would have been Petty’s 70th birthday. liveforlivemusic.com
cutworms.bandcamp.com
'Texas Sun' is a collaboration between Texas artists, Khruangbin & Leon Bridges. "A meeting of funk and soul to celebrate the Lone Star State." consequenceofsound.net
Official video for this song: youtu.be
khruangbin.bandcamp.com
Durand Jones & The Indications performed live in the KEXP studio in April 2019. Watch the full session, including this track, here: youtu.be
'The Last Exit' is the fifth studio album from Still Corners, to be released on January 2021.
With the shimmering desert noir sound the band has become known for, 'The Last Exit' takes you on a hypnotic journey, one filled with dilapidated towns, mysterious shapes on the horizon, and long trips that blur the line between what’s there and not there. Greg says, “We found something out there in the desert – something in the vast landscapes that went on forever."
stillcorners.bandcamp.com
Video for "The Last Exit": youtu.be
First single from the upcoming third album, 'A Billion Little Lights', from this NYC band, due to be released on February 19, 2021.
In a press release, Wild Pink frontman John Ross talked about this track, which also features vocals from the Ratboys' Julia Steiner:
"It was inspired by Carl Sagan’s Cosmos as well as “If I Needed You” by Townes Van Zandt, this song is named for a grim retirement home in Florida. It’s about somebody who was born sheltered realizing how large the world is and how unimportant they are. Julia Steiner’s vocal contributions brought the song to fruition, and it was a lot of fun to make. We spent a lot of time focusing on the drums and percussion, using a phone recording of some cicadas in a quieter part towards the end of the song, and I really like all the stuff Dan came up with like the Agogo bells and Rototoms."
www.stereogum.com
Check out the video featuring 'Schitt's Creek' actress Annie Murphy: youtu.be
Pre-order the album here: wildpink.bandcamp.com
Do you miss in-studios?? Ugh. Us too. <3 Relive the 2017 session at KEXP, including this song, with us: https://youtu.be/2lncloqtuT0
"'Amber’s Knees' came together lyrically from bits and pieces that we’d all written over a long period of time," shares Girl Friday. "It has to do with the borders of culturally sanctioned dissociation and the willful ignorance we often employ to keep things functioning, which manifests differently for everyone." bit.ly
The L.A. band's debut full-length album, 'Androgynous Mary' was released this summer. Find it here: girlfridayband.bandcamp.com
The Internet was formed in early 2011 by Odd Future members Syd and Matt Martians, along with touring members Patrick Paige, Christopher Smith, and Tay Walker. The band's name originally started out as a joke, inspired by Left Brain's answer to a reporter asking where he was from, to which he responded, "I hate when people ask me that, I'm going to start saying I'm from the Internet." The idea amused Syd, and inspired the name for her side project that eventually became The Internet. nyti.ms
Check out The Internet Live on Streets Sound with Larry Mizell Jr. on KEXP: kexp.org
"A disco anthem about going out, for a time when people really can't"
consequenceofsound.net
For the new single "Straight to the Morning", Hot Chip team up with legendary Pulp musician Jarvis Cocker -- featured in a Guitar-Hero-esque video game sequence in the track's new video: youtu.be
"'Time's Up' is a track that was made to reflect a conversation between two young black artists about the Australian music industry," Sampa explained of the song. "With the current atmosphere it’s an important time to address systemic racism within the music industry, especially as it slowly rebuilds." www.nme.com
sampathegreat.bandcamp.com
The daughter of Leftfield cofounder Neil Barnes, Georgia began her music career as a drummer for artists such as Kwes and Kate Tempest. 'Seeking Thrills' is her second album, released early in 2020. The album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize 2020.
“Making this record was a real journey, but an enjoyable journey,” she told NME. “I learned a lot about myself, a lot about how to make music, how to create in a way that’s true to me. I’ve set out the stones for future music and I really feel proud that this record is up for it.” bit.ly
Shygirl guests on the slow, woozy "Mellow," which revisits the angular rhythms and deadpan vocals of the more grime-influenced tracks on Georgia's debut. georgiauk.com
In describing the album, A.C. Newman called it "a celebration record... After periods of difficulty, I am at a place where nothing in my life is dragging me down and the music reflects that." pitchfork.com
Watch the video for this: youtu.be
In the first thirty seconds of William Onyeabor’s "Atomic Bomb," you hear a tambourine, a Moog synthesizer, an electric guitar, a bass, and a keyboard. A one-man operation, Onyeabor recorded the song in his own studio in Enugu, Nigeria, and self-released Atomic Bomb in 1978.
Probably, Onyeabor was the first West African musician to record songs with synthesizers; certainly, he was the first to record them in a West African studio (his own) and then release them on a West African label (also his own).
bit.ly
Happy Thursday, everyone! You're listening to The Afternoon show with Larry Mizell, Jr.! Marijata was a group made up of three members – Kofi 'Electric' Addison on drums, Bob Fischlan on organ and Nat Osmanu on guitar, hailing from Ghana. Their debut album, 1976's "This Is Marijata" is a masterpiece of Afro-Funk.: www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk