The Listening Club - 23rd October 2022

Greetings folks, 

Hope you're all doing okay. Yep @kleptones back from a last minute weekend away in Paris with @nessiest to see the wondrous Angelique Kidjo perform her version of Talking Heads' "Remain In Light" album, which you may remember I picked for a Sunday listen a couple of years back. She doesn't often do a full show around the album, so in lieu of a closer one, Paris it was, which was grand, as there's plenty else to keep you occupied in the city of lights, and plenty of fine food and wine to consume whilst you're doing so... 

Anyhoo, next week is end of the month, which means #vortex time, so get your thinkiing caps on for a theme as per the usual. Also advance notice that imma gonna be away again (Sun 13th Nov) as it's Le Guess Who time again, so anyone that can fill in - please come forward if you can, it doesn't take long, and as it seems evident that @JimMcCauley is really fuckin' busy right now, I'd rather not we rely on his good nature all the time, eh?

Anyways, that very same @JimMcCauley was doing that very same favour last Sunday, which saw @zbendr flip his schedule to bring everyone Naima Bock’s “Giant Palm”, which seemed to go down well, if the tweets are anything to go by. After that the frisb sailed half way around the world to @simonlandmine, who's here with tonight's intro:

"I was initially undecided which end of my shortlist to go with this time, but what with my last pick having been at the rocky end, the conversation about slower music last week, and the time of year (the rapid approach of Gothmas), this seemed suitable.

I've missed a couple of opportunities to see this act live, but I can't recall now exactly how they came to my attention around the time they released their first album - it certainly wasn't from any prior knowledge of the band two of the members were previously in. After a

bit of due diligence, I've picked up all of their albums to date. Since I got this, their second release, they've attracted slightly more general attention and, depending on your viewing habits, you may

recognise some of the tracks - although given the musical awareness you all have, I'll probably find more than half of you have the album already. They are also now on a major label, which may mean more chances for me to miss seeing them live, which it seems is quite the experience.

This does seem like an album to listen to while the nights draw in, probably with the lights down very low."

Right then. Download's here, stream's below:

See you 8pm BST (GMT+1) for the last time this year, clocks go back NEXT WEEK.