L&Q Weekly
Nick Cave turns down Morrissey, a bumper list of newly announced albums, Kim Gordon's Trump protest song, "It's a dog, ok!?" says Sabrina Carpenter
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Track of the Week
Skrillex really did a number on dubstep, turning it into “my JAM!” for every aspiring tech bro who also claimed devil horns as their own, a tongue that won’t stay in their mouth and a shirt that won’t stay on. Before DJ and producer Carré moved to London, she co-founded the party series and label Fast At Work, which rejects the brostep side of her beloved bass music genre and highlights its far less macho British roots. At the end of this month she’ll release her own Meltdown EP in a similar vein, released via Dublin label Woozy. Here’s its title track to round of a sticky week in the UK. My JAAAAAMMMM!
My neighbour’s taste in music drove me to hypnotherapy
I always knew I was special. I insisted upon it at my one and only horrible camp experience when, hysterically crying for some reason or other that wasn’t my fault, I didn’t overreact in the slightest when I screamed at the other Cubs (losers, all of them) that they didn’t understand my struggles as a child a.) with asthma, and b.) who was left handed. So brave. Little did I know then that my real X-Men quality was my hearing, even if I could hear the other boys calling me a prick at 1000 paces… Continue reading
The Loud And Quiet Podcast: with Gwenno
Whether a teenager dancing in Michael Flatley’s Lord Of The Dance in Vegas, a member of conceptual mid-00s pop band The Pipettes, or touring schools and clubs as a “Kwik Save Kylie”, Gwenno Saunders has never not wholeheartedly thrown herself into what’s in front of her. For the last 10 years though, she’s found her true voice as an artist popularising often psychedelic music in both the Welsh and Cornish language. Her forthcoming, forth solo album, Utopia, is her first to predominantly feature lyrics in English, and includes lessons learnt in desert and in London’s mid-00s indie scene. Listen now
Albums for your diary announced this week
Cass McCombs – Interior Live Oak (15 August, Domino): Could ‘Peace’, the lead single from McCombs’ new album, be his jolliest song yet? That’s right, jolly!
Black Lips – Season of the Peach (Fire, 19 Sept): Atlantan garage rock lifers reach their 11th album (not bad for a group who’s bit was once pissing in their own mouths) with a classically Black Lips sounding album of wiry rock’n’roll.
Ho99o9 – Tomorrow We Escape (9 Sept): For their third album, the LA rap punk duo focus more on emotion than the politics of previous records, but keep their influences of digital hardcore, metal and horrorcore in place.
Jerskin Fendrix – Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire (10 Oct, untitled (recs)): Recorded between scoring films and being nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for his Poor Things score, JF’s second album is particularly anticipated by Loud And Quiet after his debut, Winterise, became our 2020 Album of the Year.
Titanic – Hagen (5 Sept, Unheard of Hope): From Mexico City’s experimental underground, guitarist Héctor Tosta and cellist/singer Mabe Fratti return with their second collaborative album following 2023 standout Vidrio. New track ‘Gotera’ goes for simplistically industrial machine gun drums.
Wednesday – Bleeds (13 Sept, Dead Oceans): After a busy 2024 for guitarist MJ Lenderman, the North Carolina band are back with their first album since 2024’s Rat Saw God proved to be an indie sleeper hit.
Sydney Minsky Sargeant – Lunga (12 Sept, Domino): The unexpected debut solo album from the Working Men’s Club singer and songwriter.
Wrap this up
Nick Cave has said that he declined working with Morrissey last year after Morrissey asked him to not sing but speak an “unnecessarily provocative and slightly silly anti-woke screed he had written” on a song that “began with a lengthy and entirely irrelevant Greek bouzouki intro.” I mean, it doesn’t not scan.
After announcing (and completing, in one instance) farewell tours, The B-52’s and Devo have found a loophole to keep themselves from going home to their families – by now touring together. It doesn’t count if you’ve never done it before, it seems. It’s a completely different thing, ok!!??
Kim Gordon has reworked her 2024 track ‘Bye Bye’ into a Trump protest song. ‘Bye Bye 25’ swaps out the lyrics of its original (a list of items Gordon was packing for a trip) for words that Trump has banned from appearing in grant and research proposals, including ‘advocate’, ‘gay’, ‘Gulf of Mexico’, ‘intersex’, ‘victim’ and ‘care’.
