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 #20 - The Late, Late News
IT disasters in Toad Hall meant that this podacast was delayed so long that I ended up posting pretty much all of it on the blog before I got to record the thing and all the news was so outdated that I had to find some more news. Fortunately we have some pre-release splendidness from Elbow, Goldfrapp and Stephen Malkmus to make up for it.
There’s also some excellent unsigned music to be had as well, from Maxwell Panther and Meursault, as well as some splendid new singles from Elle S’Appelle and Operahouse. So it’s late, but some of this stuff is really quite excellent. And then there’s LCD Soundsystem who have taken me so long to get into that I am only starting to even enjoy the album now, some eight months or so after its release. What a fuckwit.
There’s a fairly detailed explanation of what is going to be happened with Song, by Toad Records in the new year as well, and how I am going to move these podcasts onwards and upwards. Unfortunately it takes the longest bloody link in recorded history to actual explain it all, but explain it I do. There’s always the track timings listed at the side of the songs if you want to skip it altogether though! Have fun, chaps.
Toadcast #20 - The Late, Late News
1. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Gardenia (01.27)
2. Elle S’Appelle - Little Flame (06.49)
3. Operahouse - Born a Boy (09.40)
4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (14.54)
5. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe (24.50)
6. Goldfrapp - Little Bird (28.51)
7. Maxwell Panther - Too Many Magazines (35.47)
8. Meursault - The Furnace (39.37)
9. The 4Qs - Pieces of a Puzzle (48.03)
10. Kid Harpoon - Riverside (50.42)
11. Dubious Ranger - Slow Day (56.18)
12. Roger McGuinn & Calexico - One More Cup of Coffee (68.29)
13. The Heavy Circles - Henri (72.45)
14. The Brute Chorus (feat. Tiggs) - The Cuckoo & the Stolen Heart (80.15)
15. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce (88.13)
16. The Cave Singers - Seeds of Night (94.51)