Playlist 250 - Jan 22 2013

The new music of 2013 is starting to filter through.

This week we had more from the new Yo La Tengo album, Fade, in the shape of the sublime brass-laden drone of ‘Cornelia & Jane’, sung by Georgia Hubley; a tremendous sea-shanty from The Doomed Bird of Providence, part of their contribution to Collision/Detection v7 (more on that in recent posts); some genuinely affecting shoegaze from Apparat; and an upcoming new single from Cat Power, ‘Manhattan’, which has a great piano with drum machine motif.

We also had a new tune from Best Boy Grip from Derry, a brilliantly bouncy power pop put down - and it features brass.

There was also an Efterklang re-release on Leaf, a beautiful "oldie" from Luna, a surf pop ballad from Cork's Saint Yorda, some very tuneful thrashing from Ty Segall, likewise from Dublin's Lie Ins whose new album comes out in a couple of weeks, and some great wobbly bass from Daphni (Dan Snaith/Caribou).

And from Perth, the new Apricot Rail single (pictured). No brass here but there is flute, duetting with clear as crystal electric guitar, a lovely, uplifting, skittering effect.

Jan 22 2013 Show w/ new YLT, Efterklang, Daphni, Saint Yorda, Ty Segall, Apricot Rail++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 250
Tues Jan 22 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
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Playlist
Luna - Astronaut
Apricot Rail – Basket Press
Peter Broderick - Proposed solution to the mystery of the soul
Efterklang - God vind, Kaptajn!
Dutch Uncles - Flexxin
Lie Ins - Vegetarian girls (album launch, Anseo, Dublin, Feb 2, w/ Cave Ghosts & Oh Boland)
The Doomed Bird of Providence - Safety at sea (Collision/Detection v7)
Daphni - Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya
Best Boy Grip - Postman
Apparat - A violent sky
Cat Power - Manhattan
Saint Yorda - Deep water (playing The Pavilion, Cork, Jan 26, w/ Mark Buckeridge)
Yo La Tengo - Cornelia & Jane (playing Vicar Street, Dublin, Mar 23rd)
Ty Segall - Would you be my love
Lawrence Arabia - Apple pie bed

*next week's show features music from Amor de Dias, Yo La Tengo, Philip Glass Remixed, Karl Bartos & Slow Place Like Home, among others

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University College Cork,
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Ireland.

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