Loving the Lee Hazlewood / Nancy Sinatra style vibes from ex-Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval (and also singer of one of the best songs of the 21st Century – Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus). This is her band with one of My Bloody Valentine, and featuring on this track Kurt Vile. Blissful psych country. The video makes me think of Paul Nash (great exhibition at Tate Britain in London at the moment) and his surrealist obsession with waves and object-personages. Album ‘Until the Hunter’ is out on November 7th.
Not so new is her collab again with Massive Attack on Spoils from August. Something about her voice just works so well with electronic sounds, something ghostly and haunting about that combination. What’s with the face thing, though? Noticing a pattern here…
Also surprisingly digging some of the new-ish Primal Scream, which made me think of classic New Order and that is not a bad thing. Although they are brilliant live, I had basically given up on the Scream about the time of Kowalski. But LOVE this, although the album does dip back into the tired Rolling Stones posturing which they seem to endlessly go back to.
As anyone who listened to the podcast knows, I’m extremely not a fan of the Stones…so ver Scream has always been a bittersweet affair for me – electronica good, heroin country-rock pseudo-Americana, bad.
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