Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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Toadcast #308 - Broken Records Toad Session v2
So this is the second Broken Records Toad Session. We actually packed a band with four guitarists and a full drum kit into our living room and decided that, fuck it, of course it would sound fine. And you know what, somewhat magically it does. Alright the drums could have done with more than one mic, and perhaps we didn't have all that much control when we had to use one mic for two guitar amps, but they recordings sound really good if you ask me.
The reason we did a second session with Broken Records is because our first was recorded in the dark days of the internet when YouTube footage was published in 640 x 480 format and those videos now look like they were recorded back before steam trains. Ironically, and to my infinite frustration, having decided to do another session in order to upgrade the quality of what we did all those years ago, we actually managed to lose all the video for this one. Yes, all of it. We actually managed to lose an entire camera when we moved house, including the memory card with all my video on it, and Gavin's hard drive, containing all his shots, had a meltdown too, so all that went as well.
I cannot express how much hair-pulling has taken place ransacking old drives for backup versions, nor how incredibly sorry I am for the band going to all that effort only for this to happen, but there's nothing for it I'm afraid. It just isn't there. So what you get instead is a series of photos by Nic Rue, the interview podcast and our session recordings. It's all really, really good stuff, but not having the video still makes me smash my head against the fucking desk.
01. Broken Records - Winterless Son (Toad Session) (00.21)
02. Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa (10.32)
03. Electrelane - The Partisan (15.41)
04. Broken Records - Weights & Pulleys (Toad Session) (23.52)
05. Stereolab - Super Electric (29.08)
06. The B-52s - Love Shack (34.26)
07. Broken Records - All Else Can Just Wait (Toad Session) (49.23)
08. Car Seat Headrest - Bodys (56.44)
09. Mark Eitzel - Proclaim Your Joy (1.03.55)
10. Broken Records - Wolves (Toad Session) (1.16.10)