Along the waterline

 

'Lucinda' rises again...

From the 45th anniversary companion, 'The Joy of Sextet'

'Tilly’s lyrics, Jez Kerr explains, “reflect her take on life in Manchester, “walk along the waterline, see the ships passing by, grey skies, still water”.

  

 

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Inside your walls

 

From Epping Forest to NYC...

 

Jeffrey Lewis ·

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Lend Me Your Second Week

Another week's listening: from Dennis Young (Liquid Liquid) & Randall Kennedy's punk-funk poetics to modal Duke Pearson pleasures, via the Benelux post-punk of Jo Bogaert, Betty Padgett & Arnie Love's biscuit tin productions & DJ Nature & Jamie xx bangers (& even Kieren Hebden's first LMYE appearance in an age)...

Some tracks (Bandcamp where possible; YT if not...): 

 

 

 

If you do Spotify, the whole thing is here & below: 

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Criminal clonk

Bracing vigour & spikiness in this exemplary, lithe exhibit from Strut's forthcoming retrospective of Ze's punk-funk/no wave/cowbell clonk - by a group overlooked at the time by at least one of LMYE's co-authors, despite his ownership of Mutant Disco (& who, indeed, are still obscure enough to not make the Ze 30 cover ahead of even Marie et les Garcons...).

Exemplary except for the criminal harmonica breakdown at 1:55 (& again, only worse, at 2:24), that is... Disco re-editors*, start your engines!

Casino Music > The Beat Goes On (from Ze 30: Ze Records Story 1979-2009, Strut; originally on Jungle Love, Ze)

Comically hostile review by Metal Bastard Goes Soft here.

* Talking of whom, try Mau: he almost redeems fairly loathsome Fleetwood Mac track with some lovely Swedish "violation" (those hi-hats & keys!). His remorseless eclecticism also takes in Black Sabbath, Buddy Guy, Cocteau Twins, Bruce Springsteen &, most successfully, Roxy Music...

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"Wealth is for the one that wants it"

Gang of Four versus Tortoise: two giants of awkward singularity & angularity united for three taut, crunching minutes - Paralysed (Tortoise Remix) [from Second Life; original on Solid Gold]

Found in Dave Allen's Pampelmoose. 

Bonus: Shriekback - My Spine is the Bassline

Mice Elf Agin

Awesome photo by Warren P. Harris

Funk archaeology: three contrasting versions that take a Sly Stone classic ever further, mining deep strata of bitterness & isolation.

The original was never as guileless as it sounds at first. But Sly's spacier, slower, angrier retake & Magazine's ironic, haughty appropriation explore its genius more fully.

> Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (from Greatest Hits)


> Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa (from There's a Riot Goin' On)



> Magazine: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (from The Correct Use of Soap)



Original performance video here.