Playlist 268 - May 28 2013

A lotta new music this week and some bands you may have seen on tv lately. Low & Melt Yourself Down were both on Jools Holland last week, and great they were too.

This Is The Kit (picture by Rory Coomey) played in Cork last w'end (brilliantly) and they're still on their Irish tour - their album is just re-released by Brassland of The National fame. Nancy Elizabeth remixed by Leaf labelmate Matthew Bourne, gorgeous of course.

The Last Sound new album comes out next week, another killer number from them (is it goth-electro? I'm not sure, who cares...). Colleen being intriguing and mysterious about birds, from her first album in several years. V.O. being progressive and poppy and irresistible. Scout Niblett covering TLC. And this week's obligatory Thrill Jockey loveliness from Zomes.

And of course Here Is Your Temple providing one of the great fist-in-the-air pop anthems of recent years. 'Once rich' shows no sign of getting tired any time soon.

May 28 2013 show w/ Low, Melt Yourself Down,Colleen,Zomes,The Last Sound,VO,Circus Devils++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 268
Tues May 28 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Low – Plastic cup (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Aug 19)
Scout Niblett – No scrubs
Here Is Your Temple – Once rich
The Last Sound – Sun forever (playing Twisted Pepper, Dublin, June 8, w/ Last Days of 1984)
Shout Out Louds – Walking in your footsteps
V.O. – Everything is bathed in light
Daughter – Human (playing Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin, June 1-2)
Colleen – Raven
Zomes – Cave mountain stream
Melt Yourself Down – Fix my life (playing Electrowerkz, London, June 18)
Nancy Elizabeth – Simon says dance (Matthew Bourne remix) (playing The Dalston Victoria, London, June 28)
Queens of the Stone Age – My God is the sun
Circus Devils – When the beast falls down (from the soundtrack of the film I Razor)
This Is The Kit – Easy pickings (playing Whelan’s, Dublin, May 29)

*next week's show features music from Cat Dowling, Olof Arnalds, Date Palms, Beaches & Neu among others

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