Playlist 325 - Sept 23 2014

A couple of great new things this week from female artists.

Laetitia Sadier is back with a new album. It's great, the track we played has an unexpected and beautiful Burt Bacharach flavour. And Jennifer Castle is doing folk with another gorgeous string arrangement.

Also, new music from Ariel Pink, always great to hear from that mad genius; Cork band The Vincent(s) being remixed by the guy from The Dandy Warhols; The Asteroid #4 playing Liverpool Psych Fest this w'end; Paul Smith & Peter Brewis with an intoxicating chamber pop piece.

Broderick & Barnes "singing on the radio" and Anthony Reynolds making a torch song out of loneliness.

More on the blog.

Sept 23 2014 w/ Laetitia Sadier,Jennifer Castle,Rachael Dadd,NLF3,Ariel Pink,The Vincent(s),Jim Noir by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 325
Tues Sept 23 2014
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Rachael Dadd – Strike our scythes (playing St Pancras Old Church, London, Sept 29, w/ Rozi Plain)
Laetitia Sadier – Release from the centre of your heart (playing Café Oto, London, Dec 5)
Paul Smith & Peter Brewis – Exiting Hyde Park Towers
Jennifer Castle – Truth is the freshest fruit
The Asteroid #4 – The river (playing Liverpool Psych Fest, Sept 26)
NLF3 – Pink renaissance (playing Point Ephemere, Paris, Sept 25)
Hubble – No. 2
Ariel Pink – Put your number in my phone (playing Scala, London, Nov 17)
Ultimate Painting – Ten street
Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler – The white balloon
Richard Birkin – Night sun (timetravelopps.co.uk/nightsun)
Anthony Reynolds – Loneliness is the engine of the world
Jim Noir – The Broadway Jets
Broderick & Barnes – Radio
The Vincent(s) – Song for the sea (Courtney Taylor-Taylor mix) (playing The Mercantile, Dublin, Oct 2, HWCH Festival)

*next week’s show features music from Vashti Bunyan, Red Snapper & Bobbie Gentry, among others

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