Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart
CD|2023
indie rock.
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Love Heart Cheat Code by Hiatus Kaiyote
Formed in Melbourne in 2011, Hiatus Kaiyote is an Australian band that blends R&B, jazz, and hip-hop with a unique and progressive style. Their eclectic mix is further distinguished by the distinctive, raspy yet elegant voice of Nai Palm, a lyricist inspired by animated fantasy films and nature, who skillfully expresses a wide range of emotions through creative metaphors.
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Genesis - Trespass - ‘80s vinyl
I love this album, some of my favourite Genesis tracks and Gabriel in great voice. Proggy goodness runs through it.
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Mark Steel’s In Town on BBC R4, where Mark is in East Grinstead in West Sussex. I have just learned (humorously) of a burns dressing devised by Dr Archibald McIndoe during WW2, consisting of a mesh soaked in paraffin and halibut oil, to be laid on the skin of burnt airmen. McIndoe was determined that that a party atmosphere would prevail for patients’ psychological health, considering it vital for their recovery. Mark imagines an airman waking after burns surgery and being offered a fine cigar.
Probably better if you listen to it 
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And incredible atmosphere on Dusk and Stagnation and White Mountain
They were so unique with their early albums
Enjoy
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I read a book about McIndoe, the airmen even wrote a song for him, I seem to remember it went
“We are McIndoe’s army
We are his guinea pigs…”
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Thanks Eoin. The programme reminded me that any story, however grim, can be well told.
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Young Mr Surman and the cream of early 70s Brit jazz. Tales of the Algonquin on British Jazz Explosion/Decca Deram red label reissue. Superb - the eponymous suite on side 2 in particular.
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Richard Thompson - Ship to Shore - release vinyl
Thompson’s new album, and it’s as you’d expect. Excellent songs in multiple styles, gentle numbers and rockers, played by a top band, interpreted superbly by Thompson’s voice, and a lot of guitar brilliance.
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Otto Klemperer Der Fliegende Holländer EMI Classics. 1968 via Qobuz.
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