“This song transports to a USSR discotheque. We dance in a peculiar way and smile at each other, shaking our heads and snapping our fingers. It’s as if we’re watching ourselves on a little old black and white TV set.”
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“I listened to Faust a lot over the last 18 months and I reckon some it has seeped into the music I’ve made in that time, here and there, but that’s never a bad thing! I’m super excited for the big box set of their 71-74 stuff that’s coming out soon, especially the unreleased album!”
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“If you’re anything like me, the idea of New Order with a woman singing sounds like a dream combination and Martha Ladly proves it on this fantastic 80s blast. Ladly was in Martha and the Muffins but wasn’t the main Martha. This single features Peter Hook on bass, “pan pipes”, strings arranged by Simon Jeffes of Penguin Cafe Orchestra and glorious synth washes & stabs all topped with Martha’s charming vocals & an epic hook on the chorus.”
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“The impassioned delivery of lead singer Edna Wright atop that percolating groove grabbed me *instantly* upon hearing it. For decades I’ve been flummoxed as to why this was not a major commercial success for them.”
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“I listen to this album a lot. The Obeah Man by Exuma. The song “Mama Loi, Papa Loi”. I just love the pounding drums and the beautiful female vocals. Such a sense of abandon, like attending a voodoo ritual!! And he’s clearly unhinged!!”
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“I really like Johny’s voice in this track. It encapsulates an energy that’s hard to put your finger on but that feels ubiquitous right now. The emergence and madness of life post virus.”
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“I love it’s sheer simplicity, it’s post Dylan and Velvet’s sensibility, it’s pre-shoegaze sensitivities, it’s beautiful use of the world of glitch undermining the sentimental nostalgia of its video and the killer two lines of the chorus, ‘I don’t want to know your friend’s, I just wanna be your Tugboat Captain baby’.”
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“Shirley Collins has said that when she sings, she can feel past generations standing behind her. It’s impossible to know how many ghosts would surround her singing “Hares on the Mountain” – it’s a song that may be two hundred years old, perhaps more, passed from mouth to ear and sung by many unknown singers before her.”
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“Her use of distortion throughout the track adds a knife-sharp edge to her lush sonic palette. The sheer vulnerability of the lyrics are mesmerizing”
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“It has taught me to let go and be very in tune with myself when I write vocal lines. It really inspires me and makes me want to go crazy and experiment vocally too.”
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“Wendy and Lisa I’ve learned were part of Prince’s band, and he’s arguably the greatest all-round musician EVER so they must have sensational chops as that cat wouldn’t tolerate anything less than perfection. Voice of the Beehive meanwhile were Power-Pop princesses who made one incredible album – 1988’s Let It Bee – but then seem to have suffered death by A&R and overproduction. Fancy that eh? The perils of major label life! The moral of the story? Indie artists need to be on Indie labels. Bliss-out!”
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“This song on the record just takes me back to high school days, running around in a dreamy haze, imagining what the future clippings would bring. Hearing many influences on this record from Laurie Anderson, to Air, Nina Simone to even hints of Peaches and Grimes but ultimately at the end it is pure Jooj Two.”
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