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Featuring Mogwai, Freak Slug, Nilüfer Yanya, Cumgirl8, Floating Points.
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Floating Points
Fast Forward
There are plenty of reminders of Sam Shepherd’s noted gift for tough dance floor sounds drawn from his analogue music-making setup, for which latest Floating Points album Cascade is a fine document of his work in the field, a return to the sound that made him after his much-lauded Promises album made with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, made before he was working on a ballet score for the San Francisco Ballet (and an upcoming anime score for Adult Swim).
‘Fast Forward’ is a fine example of his dancefloor electronics, a twisting arpeggio line that rolls around tension-filled percussion that meets some Moroder-esque synths throughout – a cosmic orbit around the Floating Points planet.
Cumgirl8
ahhhh!hhhh! (I don’t wanna go)
Previously dismissed as a band with an edgelord name and average songs (by me), the questionably-named Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 have twisted my arm with their latest ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (I don’t wanna go)’, a dark no-wavey tune about not wanting to go to that social engagement, as far as I can tell.
It’s from their forthcoming (checks notes and groans) album called the 8th cumming on 4AD, out October 4th.
They also released a song called ‘Karma Police’, no not that one.
Nilüfer Yanya
Call it Love
Nilüfer Yanya has yet to make a bad record. The just-released My Method Actor is her most low-stakes record of the three so far, but it frequently hits the mark with memorable songs. ‘Call it Love’ is lilting track from the record that I have on repeat, alongside ‘Like I Say (I runaway)’ in particular.
Freak Slug
Spells
Spindly indie-rock from the Manchester musician and artist Xenya Genovese aka Freak Slug who I discovered at The Great Escape Festival in 2023. It’s taken from a forthcoming album I Blow Out Big Candles, out November 8th.
“Spells is a track I made with Alex from Jadu Heart and it’s the first song we ever made together on the album. We worked fast together in a hyper environment where the sun was shining through the windows and I was stealing his cigarettes smoking in the garden in excitement from making the song.”
Mogwai
God Gets You Back
The Scottish post-rockers return with news of a world tour (no Irish date as yet but they were here in the summer at Lankum’s IMMA show of course).
New song ‘God Gets You Back’ follows up the band’s 2021 chart-topping album As The Love Continues. Across 6 plus minutes, the song builds in gentle increments with textured arpeggios, bassline and percussion, and vocals, from drummer Barry Burns’ seven year-old daughter in the mix.
It’s really lovely stuff.
Along with the world tour, a documentary about the band called Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound – directed by longtime collaborator Antony Crook has been doing the film festival rounds.
Also added to this week’s playlist:
- Echo Northstar – creatures
- RÓIS – CAOINE
- Skinner – Tell My Ma
- Kynsy – Body
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; Nic Fanciulli – Challengers: Match Point – Nic Fanciulli Smash Remix
- Angie McMahon – Just Like North
- Men I Trust – Husk
- Zoe Graham – Push and Pull
- Roy Montgomery; Elaine Malone – Electric Turbulence
- Soccer Mommy – Driver
- FKA twigs – Eusexua
- Father John Misty – Screamland
- Junior Brother – Take Guilt
- Becky and the Birds – I made my baby cry
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