Ep 21 - Metronomy - Small World

Following last months's Album Club #1, This Is Not Happening
returns to our traditional format. In part 1, we deep dive into
an album that one of us has selected. In Part 2 we play 'Spin It
or Bin It?' where we judge each others track selections of great
new music from 2022.

Part 1 - Album of the Month

This month it's Guy's choice, Small World the new album by
Metronomy. Spoiler Alert - Metronomy are one of Guy's
favourite bands.  We discuss our expectations, reactions,
reflections, dynamics in the band and if every album being
released at the moment is in some way a 'lockdown
album'. 

Some interesting 'bits' to check out;
The Metacritic album review summary can be found hereAn
interesting interview with Joe Mount for DIY Mag can be found
hereJoe Mount doing an Instagram Live Q&A can be found
here

Part 2 - 'Spin it' or 'Bin it?'

In the second part of this episode we get stuck into the MASSIVE
amount of great music that has been released in 2022. We all pick
a track,  introduce our track and ask the others the
critical question 'spin it' or 'bin it?' We then decide on a
track of the month from the list of 4.

Nolan's track selection is - Pusha T - 'Diet Coke'
David's track selection is - Sasami - 'Call Me Home'
Joey's track selection is - Holodrum - 'Low Light'
Guy's track selection is - Ibibio Sound Machine - 'All That
You Want'

A link to a mini-Spotify-playlist of these 4 tracks can be found
here.
In order to make our selections, we all create a long
list, then shortlist 4 tracks each. The 16 tracks that make up
our track shortlists can be found here.

Next Month

Episode #22 will see us focus on Big Thief's latest release
'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You' as David's selection
for Album of the Month. The theme for Spin It or Bin It is
'Tracks that are not on Spotify'

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 what you
think.   

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