The Listening Club - 16th January 2022

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay and keeping as safe as you can manage, although that doesn't seem to be helping as much as it did last year from the sounds of things. Here in Amsterdam the weather's grey and the outlook's more of the same, meanwhile lockdown-wise, the shops have been allowed to open again a bit, but everything else is still closed, so yeah, more of the same in that respect too. Fed up of being fed up with it, to be honest...

Last Sunday we were in the capable hands of @wojsvenwoj, who pulled out a soulful selection in the shape of Jazmine Sullivan's "Heaux Tales", which got the assembled grooving, so it seemed. Thanks extended for the pick, and for sailing the frisb across to @saucer, who's here with tonight's intro...

"Picking an album for listening club is so much harder than putting together a DJ set, because with a set you have more chances to connect with your listener and more leverage to convey what you meant. I do love the challenge of an LC pick.

This time round I started off with a synesthetic visualization of a feeling... and never found what I was looking for. But somehow and super surprisingly to me, this album was closest. 

The band’s core members are from the SF and NYC areas, and the music very much reflects the two divergent aesthetics. I adore them individually and it’s rare to find them present together in such harmony.

It’s kind of raw, it’s very live, it’s all covers. Somehow it evokes my current television obsession, Station Eleven, better even than the quite awesome series soundtrack itself.

Have a listen. The drink you have in your hand is the best one."

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

See you 8pm GMT.