Month: October 2021
Chartreuse are a young, four-piece band. Their sound can be described as ambient dark-pop, at the same time keeping the classic sounds of folk, soul and jazz genres that influence them. Also, they’re from Birmingham, which is enough of a reason to put “Things are Changing too Quickly” in the HOT SPOT!
In the HOT SPOT we have “Geometry of You” by Joan as Police Woman x Tony Allen x Dave Okumu (the name “Joan as Police Woman” is a homage to Angie Dickinson’s “Police Woman”).
Tony Allen was a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter who Fela Kuti’s drummer and musical director David Jairus Ochieng Okumu is a singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist, best known for fronting the band The Invisible.
According to Joan, the song about the intersection of math and sensuality.
We have Wet Leg sitting in the HOT SPOT yet again, with their ace new track “Wet Dream,” which they say is a break up song. By the way, they had 3 million streams on “Chaise Longue,” and we think that’s because of us 😉
LA Priest aka Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier. In June of 2020 he released a record called GENE but our pick, “Learning to Love,” isn’t on it because it was on his 2015’s INJI. We’re confounding at times.
Fun fact: “Gene” was produced by Erol Alkan, who also produced Late of the Pier’s first album & worked on FUTURE PAST with, you guessed it, Duran Duran!
