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 #18 - The Homecast
Well you know how I said I wasn't so convinced by Toadcast #17? Well it proved somewhat prophetic, although that prophesy may have been somewhat self-fulfilling of course. It's one of my least downloaded podcasts for ages, but this one should sort that out. There's some genuinely excellent music on here, although most of it is pretty obscure. There's no Arcade Fire or anything to pull in the punters, bar a bit of The Magnetic Fields, but a really good selection of new and emerging music nevertheless.
And why the Homecast? Well
that's obvious of course: we're back in our house at long last and I
recorded this from my massive old lab bench that doubles as a desk and
music centre all at once. It's fucking brilliant - I really should
take a picture and post it for you so you can see. The bench is 2.75m
long, so I have computer and stuff at one end, stereo equipment at the
other and a couple of good sized speakers either side. A music anorak's
paradise!
Toadcast #18 - The Homecast
01. Aidan John Moffat - Eureka Springs (Edit) (00.00)02. 4 or 5 Magicians - Forever on the Edge (02.30)
03. Flashguns - St. George (07.53)
04. George Pringle - Carte Postale (13.52)
05. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Own Me (16.59)
06. Destroyer - Foam Hands (21.55)
07. Howlies - Aluminum Baseball Bat (28.44)
08. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Aspidestra (38.36)
09. Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Leftovers (40.48)
10. Ruth Theodore - Overexpanding (49.22)
11. Akron/Family - Ed is a Portal (55.28)
12. Victor Borge - Phonetic Puncutation (63.22)
13. Josiah Wordsworth - Drive-by Media (70.23)
14. King of Prussia - Spain in the Summertime (74.44)
15. The Magnetic Fields - Threeway (83.07)
16. The Forms - Knowledge in Hand (87.44)
17. Howlies - Smoke (90.14)
18. The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (95.38)
19. Found - When You Fall (102.09)
Song, by Toad