The Listening Club - 20th June 2021

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Things continue to improve here in Amsterdam, as daily infection numbers keep going down and the city continues to cautiously open up. Hoping that things continue to go well, as we're tentatively planning our first vacation in ages, so will be looking for a substitute host here in #LC land for the first two Sundays (1st & 8th) in August - let me know if you want to help out!

Also don't forget, to celebrate a festival season that may or may not be happening depending on where you are, next Sunday will be the return of the annual #livevortex, so get your thinking caps on and be ready to dig out a couple of classic concert performances. More details on the tweets soon.

Last Sunday we had @JimMcCauley in the chair, digging back to youthful purchases in the shape of Alan Parsons Project's "I Robot" which went down surprisingly very well indeed. Plus ça change, eh? Thanks to Jim for the pick, and for sailing the frisb over to @unmannedfuture, who has this to say by way of introduction to tonight's selection...

"Becuz of covid and the general collapse of western civilization, I've spent a lot of the last year really digging into this genre. Happily before I got too random and overwhelmed I was taken in hand by a twitter moot, one of those great and rare guides who did the, "oh, if you like this, you’ll probably like that…” pretty perfectly.  And so here we are. Good opportunity to thank them, and also to give y’all at Listening Club a shout out for daring and sharing great musical adventures weekly.  This pick sparks joy in me, and by now even my long-suffering partner has come to like it, due to relentless high decibel exposure. It may not spark joy in you, but if that’s the case I’ll just mention that being totally inept, I managed this time to leave off the final track, so that’s 4:45 of your life that you DO get back."  

Okaydoke. Download's here, and stream's below:

See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1).