This week, Phil Taggart joined Rigsy and Stu for a chat, and to discuss a few of their favourite new releases including:
Pleasure Beach – Go
Phil: “It’s ridiculously swish and together for a debut single. Whatever it is on this track, it grabbed me in the first 30 seconds… and I was like 'I need to play this record, I need to support this record'.”
Rigsy: “There seems to be a bit of a buzz about Pleasure Beach. I always loved Yes Cadets... and this sort of sounds like Yes Cadets squared. Big Big production, lots of noise, lots going on.”
Stuart: “It’s kind of turbo boost... fits with acts like war on drugs, its got that 80’s driving beat.”
Screaming Parent – The Question Mark At The End Of It
Stuart: “It’s been compared to everything from Postal Service to Prince… It’s kind of bizarre but in a good way. Irish people aren’t very good at sounding sexy in music... but he kind of sounded sexy.”
Rigsy: “This is just an awful lot of ideas happening all at once, quite a lot to take in but as long as there’s a funky bassline you’re kind of on board.”
Conal Flood – Deserted
Phil: “I feel this is the most accomplished work that he’s done yet... I think it’s a wicked record.”
Rigsy: “The comparisons to Beck don’t end with the fact it’s got a slide guitar a la Loser… There’s kind of that same curiosity you’d find in the likes of Odelay and Midnight Vultures.”
Thomas Dreyfus – Sometimes in the Desert
Phil: “I like the idea that the guy’s from the north making this dark music… When it gets dark and cold, it gets dark and cold up there.”
Young Wonder – Sweet Dreaming
Phil: “It feels that that chorus melody was lifted off like a female fronted pop band from the 90’s. They were one of the buzziest acts from Ireland online in 2013. I actually reckon that that track or that band would fit nicely on to the bill with Pleasure Beach.”
We The Oceanographers – The Ocean
Rigsy: “Low-fi folk pop vibes… wee bit of technology in there too, that lovely pulse throughout the track.”
Stu: “It’s just that beautiful weariness, it’s like one of those old Jimmy Webb songs that he wrote for Glen Campbell… you just get completely lost in it.”
Phil: “This is exactly what I need to be listening to right now, it’s like the audio antidote for a very stressful day.”
