The Listening Club - 8th January 2023

Salutations and Happy New Year to you all.

Hope you had a pleasurable mid-winter holiday season type thing, whatever you got up to. Here it was customary good food, drink and gentle merriment with closest and dearest, minimal problems or complaints for a change, and feeling all the better for it. Yay.

Way back before all that, @woj was in the chair, delivering the last #LC of the year, in the shape of Shirley Hurt's eponymous debut album, which went down pretty well as I recall. Thanks to Woj for the pick and for sailing the frisb over to @soundclamp, who has had a good long time to ponder his pick, and even more so because...

Yeah, #FestiveVortex innit? It definitely has been quite an unsettled year for many, and I think the wider-than-ever spread of tunes represents that. Quite a bit of comfort listening maybe, but that can be pretty extreme in itself, as I well kno, and you will hear. Many thanks to everyone who chipped in tracks!

Direct download is here, stream is below:

See you 20:00 GMT for playback. Bring a bottle and some snacks!