Album Of The Week – Alela Diane – About Farewell : I’ve found it nigh on impossible to write some words about the new album from Californian singer-songwriter Alela Diane without using the word beautiful 58 times (although that might be in part due to my limited vocabulary). An utterly captivating release that at times is delicate and heartbreaking, but always nothing less than strikingly beautiful (there I go..). First listen was swiftly followed by second then a third, as I often say but this is very true in this albums case, it comes so highly recommended it’s floating in the clouds, which you will be after listening (that’s my pun licence revoked!)

33RPM At The Movies – Goblin – Suspiria : For this week’s soundtrack we went back to 1977 and the classic Dario Argento horror film Suspiria. The second Argento film that Goblin had scored (the first being Deep Red), is a proggy, hypnotic, psychedelic fueled trip that really adds an ambience to the film, especially the title track, which was to become one of the bands most famous songs. If you’ve never seen the film then you really should, it’s a classic from that era and one of the last great Argento movies.

Name Remains The Same – I Want You : Bob Dylan, Inspiral Carpets and Elvis Costello shared the title I Want You this week. I’d also forgotten how brilliant the Elvis Costello song is.

PS : New Pixies track! Three words I thought I’d never write. Although sadly it seems to have come at the cost of losing my favourite Pixie Kim Deal. It is a beast of a track so I’m slighty less trepidatious about any more new material that may surface.
PPS : Future Of The Left have a new EP out, it’s called Love Songs For Our Husbands, it’s bloody great, that is all..
See you next week!

01 – Dinosaur Jr – The Lung (You’re Living All Over Me – 1987)
02 – Jimi Hendrix – Come On (Part 1) (Electric Ladyland – 1968)
03 – Alela Diane – About Farewell (About Farewell – 2013)
04 – No Age – Cmon Stimmung (An Object – 2013)
05 – Bob Dylan – I Want You (Blonde On Blonde – 1966)
06 – Frightened Rabbit – Dead Now (Awayland – 2013)
07 – Goblin – Suspiria (Suspiria – 1977)
08 – Pixies – Bagboy (Single – 2013)
09 – Inspiral Carpets – I Want You (Devil Hopping – 1994)
10 – Orbital – The Box (Insides – 1991)
11 – Alela Diane – The Way We Fall (About Farewell – 2013)
12 – Future Of The Left – The Bisexuality Of Distance (Love Songs For Our Husbands – 2013)
13 – Bass Drum Of Death – Bad Reputation (Bass Drum Of Death – 2013)
14 – Vondelpark – Dracula (Seabed – 2013)
15 – Laura Marling – Master Hunter (Once I Was An Eagle – 2013)
16 – Alela Diane – Lost Land (About Farewell – 2013)
17 – Elvis Costello – I Want You (Blood & Chocolate – 1986)
18 – Goblin – Black Forest – Blind Concert (Suspiria – 1977)

You can listen to this weeks show again on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/33rpmphoenix/