The Listening Club - 23rd May 2021

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Could easily recycle last week's intro here, as it's been another week of showers, bit of sun, but not much else - Hype cat is well fed up with getting soaked. Meanwhile, Amsterdam continues to slowly rise out of lockdown, infection numbers are finally going down and vaccinated numbers are going up (me? not jabbed yet but I'm expecting it to be very, very soon...), and a small celebration was in order this week as we booked tickets for a show for the first time in nearly a year and a half... So, and slow, it grows... impatient, moi?

Last Sunday we had @ohmyliver in the chair, getting the place slowly rocking to the sounds of Soulwax's "Cherry Moon On Valium" mix from a while back. Many thanks to Oli for the chunky pick, and for sailing the frisb up to Finland, where @akx peers over his sunglasses with this to say by way of introduction to tonight's selection...

"So, by the time you read this on Sunday we'll all know whether Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest this year or not. At the time of writing, it's been a day of cleaning around the house and we're getting our snacks and beers ready for watching the thing, and there's a very festively dressed plush Blåhaj shark on the couch -- we've come to the conclusion he likes musicals a lot, so you can imagine he's very fired up for ESC.

Anyway -- this album's been on my shortlist for a while now (I think one of these songs made it into an afterparty at some point?). It's yet another of my Japan picks, but with a bit of a different genre twist than the stuff I've picked before.

Even if you probably can't make heads or tails of half the lyrics (indeed, half - you'll figure out what I mean), it's catchy and glossy and pretty much just plain fun.

#drinkingclub suggestion: something fizzy!!"

Okaydoke. Download is here or here, and the stream's below

See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1)