The Underground of Happiness

A lot of new music on the show this week, in keeping with normal January service. TEEN , a lovely mid 80s Prince type electro pop bounce Ty Segall , pumping out the heartwarming glam jams Nadia Reid , swoonsome dreamy folk rock Morning Veils , spectral folk atmospherics from their debut album Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express , showing everyone how to make dance music. And Tortoise , more masterful minimalist grooves from their upcoming new album. More on these pages. Jan 19 2016 w/ TEEN, Ty Segall, The Drink, Morning Veils, Tortoise, Yorkston Thorne Khan, Damsel++ by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 385 Tues Jan 19 2016 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen ba...

I have a bit of catching up to do around here so let's start with this belated mention. TEEN are four women out of Brooklyn, three sisters and a friend, who make thrilling psych pop with attitude. (Teeny Lieberson, one of the sisters who gives the band its name, used to be in Here We Go Magic.) Their album In limbo came out last autumn on Carpark Records , mixed and produced with the great Sonic Boom. I don’t want to bore you all with boo-hoo promo-submission stories, but this one languished in the digital pile until now. Anyway, the lightning is finally out of the bottle. Start with 'Better', a Velvets-style piano motif laid over gurgling bass synths and tribal drums that just keeps on going. It really is the shit. I’ll do it better, I’ll do it better, I’ll do it better than anybody else, ha You will believe them. Check ‘Electric’ as well, a brilliantly garage-y bassline-with-plain-as-pie-snarebeat, that rises to a stunning crescendo with multipl...

A few great new things from Thrill Jockey this week - Peals is a new group consisting of William Cashion of Future Islands and Bruce Willen ex-Double Dagger who play delicate, drifting instrumentals; John Parish is a well-known name, but his new album is a collection of his less well-known (to me anyway) soundtrack work - it's brilliant; and grand soundscape composers Mountains , who play Cork next week. A couple of very nice Irish female-fronted pop releases, Cat Dowling with a bluesy take, Cave Ghosts with a lovely surf-pop feel. Television announced their reform date at the last ever ATP in November this week; brand new music from Colleen and new-ish from Alisdair Roberts . And my new favourite band, TEEN , superb drone pop produced by Sonic Boom. Apr 30 2013 show w/ Mountains,William Tyler,Peals,Cat Dowling,Alisdair Roberts,John Parish++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theu...