Playlist 275 - July 16 2013

The last freestyle show before the summer recess (the next two weeks will be special or compilation formats - a Round-up of the year so far next week and a Love Songs set the week after).

Folk was hot this week - Plankton Wat (sun-baked variety), Peter Delaney (middle of the night, ukulele style), Oliver Cole doing some great woo hoos, even Grumbling Fur (pictured), adding a psych/electronic twist to something very English sounding.

Screaming Maldini I can't get enough of lately, there's a touch of a High Llamas influence in there, good to see the baton passing to another generation.

The new Liam Singer album is also brilliant, an intriguing chamber pop, we had a track from that. Nils Frahm changing tack a little, doing something like techno without the beats.

And for Belle & Sebastian fans, Hero & Leander - a brilliantly conceived love song told through blue eyed soul.

More on these pages as usual.

July 16 2013 w/ Oliver Cole,Peter Delaney,Groom,Halves,Grumbling Fur,Nils Frahm,Screaming Maldini++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 275
Tues July 16 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at http://tunein.com/radio/UCC-983-s15067/
*listen back to this show here
http://i.mixcloud.com/CCdBhl

Playlist
Oliver Cole – Little wolf (playing Valentia Isle Festival,Sept 13-15)
Peter Delaney – Sleep, nausea (playing Coughlan’s, Cork, July 27; Bourkes, Limerick, Aug 10th)
Barbarossa – Turbine
Liam Singer – O endless storm
Screaming Maldini – The albatross (radio edit)
High Llamas – The sun beats down
Groom – Fishing 1983 (playing Siteation, Dublin, July 27)
Halves – Hug the blood (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 26; Indiependence Festival, Aug 2-4)
*Interview with Halves here –
http://www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.ie/2013/07/halves-interview-and-new-album-boa-howl.html

Grumbling Fur – The Ballad of Roy Batty (playing Incubate Festival, Tilburg, Sept 20)
Plankton Wat – Towards the golden city (playing Liverpool Festival of Psychedelia, Sept 27/28)
Nils Frahm – For
Hero & Leander – Kiss me by the water cooler
Melt Yourself Down – Fix my life

*next week's show features a round up of 2013 to date, including William Tyler, O Emperor, The National, V.O., Nancy Elizabeth, Julia Kent & The Altered Hours among others

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Grumbling Fur - The Ballad of Roy Batty from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

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