Ep 25 - Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights

After a little summer break we're back! We get deep into our
Album of the Month, Steve Lacy's Gemini Rights in Part 1. We dig
a little deeper than most pods and make sure we've spent LOADS of
time living with the album.  In Part 2 we have one of the
best 'Spin It or Bin It' that I can remember - we each bring a
track and ask each other 'Spin It or Bin It?'

Part 1: Album of the Month - Steve Lacy's 'Gemini
Rights'
It's David's choice this month and he chooses the
intriguing 'Gemini Rights'. Its a tight, punchy album which gave
us loads to discuss: Tik Tok, the tension between joyous music
and often bitter lyrics, the influence of gender and sexuality on
this album and the age of massive change that we're living
in.

The chat references loads of music and we highly recommend that
you check out the following if you're not familiar already;


Raphael Sadiq's 'Instant Vintage'  

 Stevie Wonder's 'Innervisions' 

Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'

Prince's 'Purple Rain'

... and my big shout out - Serpentwithfeet's 'Deacon'



Part 2: Spin It or Bin It - New Music (tracks from June 2022
onwards)
In Part 2 we get into one of the best Spin It or Bin
It? that we've had. We each bring a track that meets a different
brief every month. This month is simple - 'New Music'. We then
ask each other the binary question 'Spin It or Bin It?' and then
choose a track of the month from the 4. Here's our choices ...
 Guy's choice is Romare's 'Quiet Corners of My
Mind'Nolan's choice is Danger Mouse and Black Thought's 'The
Darkest Part'Joey's choice is Ela Minus and DJ Python's 'Parajos en
Verano'David's choice is Sudan Archive's 'NBPQ (Topless)'

Next Month
Guy will be running the show and hosting the
discussion on Hot Chip's 'Freakout Release'.

Other episodes of the pod and 10 years of the blog;

If you enjoyed this episode, please check out the others. If
that's not enough for you then there's 10 years worth of music
discussion on the blog at www.thisisnothappening.net, which runs
alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So check them
out so to see what we like and where we clash, and comment if
something catches your eye. We'd love to hear what you
think. 





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