The Underground of Happiness

This week’s show has a lot of great music. At least four of my favourite tunes of the year (you know the ones if you're here regularly). But really this week come for the pop genius of The Go! Team ...brass band handclaps xylophones joyous teenage guest singers. Then stay for the rest. 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 465 Tues Oct 24 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/HajPmV Playlist The Go! Team – The semicircle song ( playing Electric Ballroom, London, Feb 15 ) Hater – Blushing ( playing Rough Trade East, London, Nov 29 ) This is the Kit – By my demon eye ( playing Cyprus Ave, Cork, Jan 16 ) Montero – Vibrations ( playing Vicar Street, Dublin Nov 22, w ...

A wonderful album of drifting orchestral pop from the former Electric Soft Parade man Thomas White of Brighton and friends. It is a collection of pieces unhindered by percussion or rhythm in the conventional sense. Instead each song drifts as if free of gravity and there is very much a sense of suspension above the earth in the bed of synth rumbles and drones. Opener ‘Dust’ has immediate shades of baroque in its vocal layers and meaty chords, although that feeling is soon overtaken by spacey bleeps and whines. The atmosphere of ‘Salt in the wound’ is akin to drifting in space, with echoes and whispers and asteroid trails, before a booming church organ launches behind the words “You don’t know what love is”. It’s as if White has embarked on the ultimate interplanetary journey to escape the pain and loss of earthly existence. ‘The dream’ has an unmistakeable Beach Boys flavour, a reaching chord-shifting quality similar to something like ‘A day in the life as a tree’ from ...

The last show before the summer recess was a round up of my favourite music of 2016 so far. Cate Le Bon feeling the joy of wonky Tortoise being a delicious groove beast The Fiction Aisle making gorgeous gloomy orchestral pop A Dyjecinski making lugubrious soulful and sexy Iggy Pop, Tarwater & Alva Noto taking Walt Whitman downtown for some treatment Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld creating the most beautiful brooding chamber atmospheres Whyte Horses in the embrace of bouncy Franco sych pop More on these pages and watch out also for a 2nd instalment of this mid year review, coming soon. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 412 Tues July 26 2016 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 https://goo.gl/14b...

The Fiction Aisle is a band you'll be hearing plenty about round here over the next while. It's Thomas White , ex Electric Soft Parade , of Brighton and he makes gorgeous but intriguing and often unsettling orchestral pop music. On this week's show we had his cover of a Camera Obscura tune which finds some kind of ambient rush that the original cunningly hid. Straight after was Camera Obscura themselves, always good to be reminded of their broken pop genius. Vinyl Williams with some great magic carpet cosmic soul. Lawrence Arabia plying a lovely late Beatles fed through post punk sound. Lake Ruth , on the baroque end of psych pop, great stuff. And August Wells , currently on tour over here, compelling bruised soul. 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 409 Tues July 5 2016...

I wouldn't often use the word spellbinding but I'm comfortable using it in relation to Kathryn Joseph and partcularly the song in this week's show, 'The want'. Stop you in your tracks, arresting, quietening, words and phrases like this. Superb important music centred around one woman's pleading and completely convincing voice with spare piano. Jim O'Rourke is back with a new album which is great, sounding soulful and loose and loving it. Novella are a band from Brighton with a lovely line in motorik backbeat. The Phoenix Foundation whipping up a satisfying proggy storm from their new album. And loads more, check it out, plus more on these pages. June 16 2015 w/ Lee Hazlewood,Sterling Roswell,Jim O'Rourke,Circuit des Yeux,Novella,Tender Prey++ by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundo...

Lutine are Heather Minor and Emma Morton from Brighton. 'Sallow tree' is the first release from their debut album White flowers which comes out on Front & Follow at the end of September. It's a low-key introduction to the band, dominated by folk harmonies, but the addition of some intriguing shades via cello, dappled piano and zither give a hint of the album arrangements. The vocals are highlighted on 'Sallow tree' in particular, two handsome, pure vibratos, two perfectly beautiful instruments. More on the album in due course.