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The JosieJo Show 27
Welcome to the JosieJo Show.
It's quite simple. It's two tracks by two different bands or artists
that you may not have heard before. Show 26 last week was the
celebration of the short song and actually had five tracks on it, but
this week we're back to normal. This week I have two great yet dark
tracks for you in true indie angst style and then a third song this
time from perky Sarah Holburn from her excellent and newly released
debut album “In Too Deep”
These tracks are going to
intrigue you, romance you and then spin you around. Think dark night
clubs of the 1980's were promises were made and dancing was done in
semi-shrouded corners. Was that just me then? Actually it wasn't
really me at all, but my cool pseudo memory of a much slicker and
gothier me might have encountered that sort of thing. The real me
though is just captivated by the two tracks I'm going to play you
today. The first is by In Isolation a Nottingham based three piece
band who are Ryan Swift, John Berry and Tony Ghost. They have a very
dark indie beauty about their sound. I think that the guitar sounds
like it's pacing a cage or straining at a lease. The vocal, on the
other hand, is smooth and shadowy. This isn't gin and tonic, or
brutally chilled chardonnay. This music is perfectly poured Guiness
or Diamond White and Castaway when the club is hot and hardly lit and
the room is packed with music and dancing bodies. This track “Tears”
is about just that: tears. It's a break up song and which one of us
hasn't felt the agony of splitting up. That awful splitting up of
the vinyl collection that you never imagined you would ever have to
do. The sound is sophisticated and produced with real sensitivity to
the band as a whole, whilst the lyrics move me and I hear something
clever in every new listen. This is due out in May/June 2014 when
the video is completed, but you can hear it here first. In Isolation
and “Tears”
They ya go a pre-release
play of “Tears” by In Isolation. That may not have been dark
enough for you so stand by I've got something even more challenging.
The next artist is Annette Berlin and along with Keith Hall she
creates grungy new wave blues. This is concave, quirky and off beat.
She is Bristol based and plays on the bill with St. Pierre Snake
Invasion on May the 23rd at The Louisiana in Bristol. I
played St. Pierre Snake Invasion way back on Show 4 and if you think
that they are growly, power chordy and disturbing, wait until you
hear Annette Berlin. If you can't wait to catch her in Bristol you
can she her and Keith play the Audacious Art Experiment in Sheffield
UK on the 26th April 2014. I'm going to play you “The
Playground” because I think that it's a good introduction to her
duality and the honesty of bathos in her work. She takes the happy
place of the playground and shows us how it can be sinister and
intimidating. It reminds me of the welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his
work “Hunchback In The Park” or the end couplet of his poem
“Should Lanterns Shine” “The
ball I threw while playing in the park Has not yet reached the
ground.”
The
track is spiky and faltering. There is little flow you sweep you
along. It's starts quietly in the sunshine with butterflies and then
punches you in the face. I really felt that I had to work for this
emotion and boy what emotion this track is full of. If Annette's
sound was a colour I think it would be dark purple and black and bit
like a bruise. See what you make of it Annette Berlin and “The
Playground”
Oh
boy see what I mean. You're not left in any doubt that you just
heard something emotional. I love its macabreness. Apparently
macabreness isn't a real word. Sorry. For real words that do tell
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look out for the hundreds of JosieJo Show screen cloths that are in
circulation and if you want one yourself get in touch with me
josiejo@josiejoshow.com Maybe I should give you something quirky,
clever and fun to end with. This is from the brand new album “In
Too Deep” by the atonishingly lovely and very talented Sarah
Holburn. This is “Ice-cream” Thank you for listening.
http://sarahholburn.bandcamp.com/
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