Tag: Daniel Johnston
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RC 391: The Nameless Xmas Episode
Happy Xmas from Radio Clash – and have a Perfectly Reasonable New Year, ok? We say goodbye to Shane MacGowan the only way we know how – with a TikTok meme, play lots of silly Christmas tunes, mashups, covers, and even some non-festive stuff like some selections from Mashed At The Sock Hop Vol 2…
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Kleptones got LO LO LO LO
It’s another Wednesday so what does that mean? Another Kleptones album, the third – LO – accurately described because this has low downtempo moods – I hinted at that on one of the previous posts. Ranging from Daniel Johnston, Pigface, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek, Richard Thompson, Bill Withers, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen to Beth Orton…
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RC #309: Make Art GRATE Again
Aka don’t tell the trees – cos the trees don’t need to know! Those useless trees might be silently judging you, though. A trip alternating between Brexit, BoJo and Trump and making good art as a response. It’s not downbeat, it’s not upbeat, it’s sort of middlebeat. Glasses halfway and all that. From novelty songs…
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RIP Daniel Johnston
Sad to hear about the death of ‘outsider’ musician Daniel Johnston at 58. He came out from the cold and became quite mainstream in later decades, much beloved by Kurt Cobain, Flaming Lips and many others in the indie scene. I only saw him once at an Everett True (Meltdown?) arranged gig all with many…
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Gaelynn Lea
Many people came across Gaelynn Lea via her NPR Tiny Desk submission and concert (below) but I stumbled across her looking up Alan Sparhawk side projects and then found A Murder of Crows. They’ve never released ‘A Moment of Bliss’ I think, one extended EP/album called Imperfecta after the condition that Gaelynn has. Her own…
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Lewis – L’Amour
In a post I marked for later last month but only recently checked was this album by Lewis aka Randall Wulff. It’s amazing, and easily has become one of my favourite albums of recent times but it was recorded 31 years ago. It’s a strange story, of outsider music on a private press, a man…