Playlist 346 - Mar 3 2015
We started this week with a couple of novelty/comic records, of sorts. From the Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis , Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake & Adam Driver do a fantastic job of evoking the spirit of the 60s, hilariously. (p-p-please...) And from the wonderful Trunk archives, Rod McKuen from 1959 with some coffee house jazz beat poetry - waitresses in bandanas, big men with paper bag lunches, it's brilliant stuff. New Polar Bear , how prolific are they, more great grooves with saxophones. And Aloa Input sounding like early Beck a little. Beck himself plays Cork at The Marquee in June, that's him channelling JC Vannier/Serge Gainsbourg . And José Gonzalez channelling handclaps and drones to great effect. A golden oldie from The Czars , John Grant's former band; Death & Vanilla with a lovely take on brooding psych pop; This is the Kit new single, another wonderful undulating groove. And Marker Starling who I will never tire of, taking a cold ...