The Listening Club - 14th November 2021

Hello, boys and girls! Yep, @JimMcCauley here, doing the admin for @kleptones before heading off to panto rehearsals this evening. You won't be seeing much of me until mid-December; it's all coming together nicely, though, and tickets are on sale now. Exciting! (Oh yes it is, etc.)

Last week, then, and it was @samquitter on duty with some actual modern music in the form of Lynks, and Smash Hits, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, which I completely missed but I'm catching up with now, and yeah, I can dig this, which seems to match the general reaction from last week. So thanks to Sam for the pick and for flinging the frisbaton at @SimonLandmine, who emailed me at 5AM with the following:

"Well, I did say last time that I'd probably pick a singer-songwriter again this time ... and so I have (after some prevarication trying to decide between others on my shortlist). If I'd given myself more time to think, rather than spending time trying to sort out stuff for last night's DJ set, maybe you'd have got something else. Or maybe not. 

"Anyhow, this is an album from a few years ago by an artist that I think I've dropped into a vortex in the past, but frankly they deserved more than just the one track. I heard of them via a compilation, then a friend mentioned them, and I looked for more of their stuff. This was the first album of theirs that I bought at time of release (rather than catching up some time later). Since this, they've released a couple more, gone on hiatus for a while, and have recently released their final album (for now) under this name, together with a new album under a new recording identity. I've seen them live a few times, and they've been excellent every time. I do very much like their songs. 

"Drinking club? I don't know, what have you got handy?" 

Well there you go. Direct download's right here, or stream below.

Have a good one in my absence; kick-off's at 8PM (GMT) as per. Laters!