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A little late, but worth the wait for an excellent and eclectic set of Earworms this week. If you have an Earworm you’d like to share, please send an .mp3 or a link to [email protected], together with a few lines about why you’ve chosen it. Many thanks to all contributors. P.S: Next week’s theme, should you choose to accept it, is “Big Brother”, interpret it as you will.
Migos – T-Shirt – magicman: The very definition of an earworm. Migos hail from Georgia and represent the trap style of hip hop, 2017 style. You can make up your own words to this, but you have to stick with the robot waltz tempo. My favourite song of last year that I didn’t put in the Festive Spill.
Chantel McGregor – Help Me – Ravi Raman: Only found out about this artist last week through an album called 100 Years of Blues. All I know is she hails from Bradford. An impressive cover of the Willie Dixon song.
Wooden Shjips – Staring At The Sun – CaroleBristol: This one has been nagging away at me since I first heard it on BBC 6Music. I was vaguely aware of Wooden Shjips already, as a kind of DIY shoegazy, droney, psych band but this is a sumptuous piece of shimmering guitars and blissed-out gorgeousness. If the rest of the album (due in May) is as good as this, it will be essential summer listening.
Nitin Sawhney – Spark – Severin: “With a mouthful of stars I trip over my feet”. There’s a lyric for you. Features Brazilian singer, Tina Grace, on vocal. A track I’ve not heard for a while but it popped up on iTunes shuffle recently and sounded fresh. That’s it really.
Will Stratton – Ribbons – tincanman: Combining the breathy vulnerability of Nick Drake and the emotive strumming of Bert Jansch with the lyrical phrasing often heard from Josh Ritter, this New Jersey folkie might be the prototype for a new breed of roots music: transatlanticana. This is from last year’s Rosewood Almanac.
Father John Misty – Leaving LA – DsD: I’m at my desk, having had a day’s training cancelled after arriving this morning because the trainee rang in sick. After discussion with the client, I’m not going to get paid, and I’ve already had DsMam bend my ear about it. So I’m feeling a bit … bruised, I suppose. I’m also trading FB messages with ToffeeBoy about the Halifax Piece Hall’s newly announced one-day music show in May. Headliner Josh Tillman’s magnificent Leaving LA is just fitting my mood perfectly.
Tomasz Stanko – Stone Ridge – abahachi: I’ve been revisiting the back catalogue of my favourite jazz trumpeter recently, and always find myself returning to this track; it feels like improvised folk music as much as jazz, partly because of the unusual instruments – bass clarinet (the great John Surman), bandoneon and violin – and partly because of the meditative feel.
T-Shirt
Help Me
Staring At The Sun _ Wooden Shjips
Spark
Ribbons [Rosewood]
Leaving LA
Stone Ridge
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