The Underground of Happiness

A bunch of great British music on the show this week, in two main camps. In the folk department The Nightjar , stirring haunted atmospherics The Bevis Frond , enduring drones with sitar Alasdair Roberts & Gordon Ferries , from the wonderful Shakespeare songs Food of Love project, getting courtly. And more of a post punk buzz Shaking Chains , compelling spoken word delivery Animals That Swim , fierce guitar tune with brilliant narrative drive Warm Digits feat. Field Music on vocals, banging electro. And Francois & the Atlas Mountains , slippery woozy psych pop from France. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 438 Tues Mar 14 2017 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here goo.gl/...

A couple of love songs (of sorts) to kick off the Valentine's Day show. The sublime version of 'My funny valentine' by Kathryn WIlliams & Anthony Kerr , a smouldering take with a distinct air of desolation in the spaces between the lines. Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble showing 'Undying love for humanity', which is tough to do but music as great as this makes it so convincing. Warm Digits are a duo from Newcastle who make furious beat driven animals and here have Field Music in on guest vocals to wonderful effect. Goldfrapp being filthy and there's not much better in life than Goldfrapp being filthy. Urban Farm Hand make a lovely folk/kosmische hybrid. And Foxygen being bonkers and beautiful and soulful. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 434...

Delirious sweeping white soul from the LA duo, adding some welcome bonkers baroque flourishes to the cosmic stew. We like progressive tendencies around here and a part of this is a heady brand of progressive pop. It comes on like Todd Rundgren arranged by Curtis Mayfield, with top notes of swooning strings and the middle ground full of wonderful staccato brass. Apparently a 40-piece orchestra was involved on the album, arranged by Matthew E. White no less, and this song shows every sign of that (why bother says you if there wasn’t going to be every sign of it). Not to get bogged down in politics, but this kind of vaguely unhinged and entirely distracting pop belter could be THE most effective political response in these times, know what I’m sayin? *Plus check out this killer version live on Conan which is nothing less than joyous, while not surrendering an inch of its mad genius. Wielding a bomber jacket and eye shadow in place of a guitar, singer Sam France manages...