🎸To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the official release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco are releasing a deluxe version with 11 LPs, a CD and a book covering the original album, alternative takes, instrumentals, and an entire live show recording. That’s a lot of music! And spendy! I am kind of with Stereogum commentator Bargain Basement Batman: please release a new pressing of the original album!
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🥁 Last week I bought an old favourite on vinyl: Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins. It is a perfect album. The high point for me is when the drums kick in during the second half of Born Secular. Sublime.
🚵♀️Don’t you love it when you want to learn how to prevent your bike’s disk brake from rubbing and the first tip in the first video in the search results sorts you out completely?
🦃 Birdle is a daily quiz about birds in and around New Zealand, made by Simon Carryer. My best score is 8/10. If you like the bird on Morning Report you will probably enjoy this one
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🥣 Spoons Lucifer On The Sofa lived up to the hype. That cover of Smog’s Held outdoes the original.
🎸 Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours has been on the UK charts for 926 weeks and regularly outsells most other popular artists.
📕 I finished Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer this week, just as a new printing hit the shops. This excerpt on The Spinoff is a perfect taster.
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🧈This week I learned about Well Fired Rolls and tandsmør, one of those non-english words that you immediately adopt when you hear it
🥁 Big Thief’s new album is 20 songs long and has a silly name but, man, is it good! Even the potato song is good.
🍗 I just finished season two of The Leftovers and I have been blown away by how they used music throughout the season.
cheers, chopper 