This month’s podcast features extracts from my interview with Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy and tracks by Jeffrey Lewis, The Japanese War Effort, Wake The President and Found.
Jeffrey Lewis – Willamsburgh Will Oldham Horror
This month’s podcast features exclusive extracts from The Skinny’s interview with Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy. It seemed like as good a time as any to big up this song, by New York anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis, which tells the (possibly imaginary) tale of an encounter with Oldham on a train which descends into Lewis being brutally beaten and defiled by the generously-bearded indie legend. Amazingly, Oldham told us that he’s a big fan of the song.
Punk Is Not Dead – The Japanese War Effort
Another song which mentions defilement (don’t say we don’t treat you). In this case it’s some nasty accusations of necrophilia in relation to the endangered musical genre of punk. However if the inclusion of the lyrics “who smells like poo” are anything to go by then the punk attitude at least lives on in the land of Lothian Buses which Martin Moog calls home. Snowbird, his debut, is pure class and is available on tape cassette for a couple of quid or free to download via www.winningspermparty.com – plus keep an eye out for his new record out on Fabrikant Records soon.
Miss Tierney – Wake The President
Infused through and through with the unmistakeable aura of the Glasgow/Scottish indie tradition, Wake the President have followed the route of their heroes Belle & Sebastian with their superb debut album, You Can’t Change That Boy, released on Stow College’s legendary Electric Honey Records this month. Must make a nice change to have others helping with the promotion as front-twins Bjorn and Erik have been busy releasing excellent music by other bands such as Endor and Zoey van Goey through their own Say Dirty Records. With this sublime ode to teenage lust they again invoke the ghost of Stuart Murdoch’s band at their early best, but with an added dose of jangly guitars that would make Johnny Marr proud.
Found – Let Fidelity Break
Edinburgh electro bods Found seem to have gone all evil on our ass with this growling little devil of a tune, exhorting listeners to drink, drink, drink, and throw up in the sink (or something) and quite possibly to top up such a sickening display by being unfaithful to your other half into the bargain. God only knows what the message would be if you were to play it backwards. It’s from their Fidelities EP which comes out on 9th March as a joint release by German label Aufgeladen & Bereit and Fence Records, and you can also do them a favour and donate a few quid for their ‘snarebrained’ compilation to help fund their trip to South by Southwest.
Published at www.theskinny.co.uk
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