The Underground of Happiness

An extended show this week, 2 hours of goodness feat. loads of new music from Fixity , superb freewheeling improv Nathan Bowles , minimalist piano patterns reminiscient of Philip Glass Laura Cannell , timeless & arresting double recorder tunes Angel Olsen , tremendous garage rock w heart on sleeve North Sea Radio Orchestra , great delicate folk songs La Femme , invigorating psych tune w motorik backbeat There's also some older treasures from Luna, Television, Stars of the Lid, The Unthanks and of course Gene Wilder RIP. 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 413 Tues Sept 6 2016 11.00am-1.00pm (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/v6TS7X Playlist Gene Wilder – Pure imagination (from the...

It feels a bit strange to be talking about debuts almost 30 years into a music career but this is the debut solo album of Britta Phillips , of Dean & Britta and Luna fame. The album contains five originals and five covers. A couple of the originals have appeared in some form elsewhere before, the driving thrumming New Order-ish ‘Million Dollar Doll’ on the soundtrack to the Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig film Frances Ha , and ‘Ingrid Superstar’ from the 13 Most Wanted/Andy Warhol Screen Test project soundtracked by Dean & Britta, with a lovely late night, mellow but slightly haunted, Velvet Underground feel. In general, the album is pleasingly out of fashion, if you know what I mean. There’s a cover of a little known Abba song, also the very well known ‘Drive’ by The Cars, the reasonably familiar Fleetwood Mac song ‘Landslide’ and the sumptuous Dennis Wilson cut ‘Fallin’ in love’. There are pillowy synths but also the signature and beautiful spidery guitar lines of ...