Co-Choices #1 - Andy and Jon

Atoms for Peace – Default

Jon – Atoms for Peace are a super-group (featuring Flea and Nigel Godrich) formed by Thom Yorke to tour his solo album ‘Eraser.’ They had so much fun together playing live they started to write songs together. Default is their first song released as AFP and although it may be too similar to KOL era Radiohead it’s a truly addictive electro song with a fantastic rhythm section.  

Guest's Choices #1 - Mike Saunders

Delinquent Habits – Return of the Tres

Quintessential Chicano music.  This is a twist on hip hop; somewhere in LA a group of low-riders are rollin’ down the street in slow motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhYtgoc3Swg

Jon's Choices #2

The O’Jays- Ship Ahoy

I found this track when I was researching the lyrics for ‘Coral’. It was on a list of ‘sea songs’ and although it is much more about slavery than the sea itself it was by far my favourite ‘sea song’ on the list. I’m not usually a fan of sound FX in songs but the atmosphere at the start of this track is stunning. I was not particularly familiar with Soul music until I found the O’Jays but Ship Ahoy is such a majestic song it single handedly got me into Soul or more specifically, Philadelphia Soul. Ship Ahoy is the name of the album too. It’s an album explores various social issues from slavery and greed, to the environment which is unusual for Soul and puts the O’Jays into a bracket of their own.

Andy's Choices #2

Scroobius Pip – First Time I Met Musik

It’s not beats, but it is poetry. However, the synth-based riff/rhythm is very catchy, using simplicity and repetition with that shows progressive attitude. Or it might have been because the whole album (1000 Words) was self-produced, and only 1000 copies were made because this was Scroob as an amateur. This track is more magical realism topic than the previous mundane biopic that we had last week, and it is a wonderful missive for music generally, so hopefully something that we can see eye to eye with.