Ep. 23 - Hurray For The Riff Raff - Life on Earth

Last month we shared our thoughts on 'Dragon New Mountain I
Believe In You' by Big Thief.  This month This Is Not
Happening stays in the broad genre of 'Indie' with Hurray for The
Riff Raff's 'Life on Earth' which we get into a deep
discussion about in Part 1. In Part 2, we play 'Spin It or Bin
It?' where we judge the tracks that we've chosen for this month's
theme.

Part 1 - Album of the Month

This month it's Joseph's choice, 'Life on Earth' by Hurray for
the Riff Raff. We discuss the album in length, favourite tracks,
what other artists's energy we can hear in this music ... and
what has become the killer question for us; 'is the production
engaging or disengaging ?' Big scenes on this pod guys!

There's some great bits to link you to this month too;


The Metacritic review page is always a good start and can be
found here

Check out this live performance of some of the album's tracks
here

The following are podcasts that are really interesting to
listen to if you like the album and want to hear more and/or
other people's opinions on it;


Blind Tiger Record Club Podcast


Launch Left Podcast

 Radio Menea Podcast


Living in This Queer Body Podcast





In the second part of this episode we get stuck into 4 tracks
representing this months theme - 'Minimalist Grooves'. We all
pick a track,  introduce our track and ask the others the
painfully binary critical question; 'spin it' or 'bin
it?' 

After last month's Spin it or Bin It 'fiasco', this month is a
little calmer and another great chat. It's a bit more of a
love-in than last months with lots of 'Spin Its' but a couple of
'Bin Its' in there too.
Nolan's track selection is - 'In White Rooms' by Booka
ShadeJoey's track selection is - 'Dance' by ESGDavid's
track selection is - 'Cranes in the Sky' by SolangeGuy's
track selection is - 'Weak Become Heroes' by The Streets

Next Month

Episode #24 will be with you soon - Nolan will be guiding us
through Mr. Morlae and the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar and
WOW, there's a lot to talk about there! Have a listen and 
share some thoughts with us on the blog or on our Insta. Its hard
not to have an opinion on this one.

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 see wha


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