Firstly, I hope all is well with my Houston based friends that you folk are safe and well and Texas returns to a new normal as soon as possible.

That said, it’s probably inappropriate to commence this episode with the track from UNKLE’s latest album – ‘Looking for the rain’ but it is one of the best tracks on the album, so forgive me this indiscretion.

Summer is over here in the UK. It was the usual mix of weather and gives credence to William Blake’s poem where he mentions our ‘mountains green’….’pleasant pastures’ and ‘England’s green & pleasant Land’. Well, early summer months of sunshine combined with sufficient rain in the last month of summer should keep us verdant!

As well as UNKLE, there have been a few long awaited releases these past few weeks and I’ve selected tracks from albums by Onehotrix Point Never; Mary Epworth; War on Drugs; LCD Sound System; Portico Qrt; Mogwai; Grizzly Bear and Filthy Friends as well as a couple of more challenging listens from Ben McElroy and Laurel Halo.

Hope you hear something you like.

Tracks:

Episode 73

1. Looking for the rain 5:45 UNKLE The Road: Part 1

2. Footsteps 3:48 Hidden Orchestra Night Walks (2010)

3. Mourning Sound 4:22 Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins

4. Gone Rogue 3:06 Mary Epworth Elytral

5. The Pure and the Damned (feat. Iggy Pop) 4:30 Oneohtrix Point Never Good Time OMPS

6. Bernies Army 4:30 Ben McElroy Bird-Stone

7. Come Back Shelley 3:59 Filthy Friends Invitation

8. Beyond Dialogue 6:42 Portico Quartet Art in the Age of Automation

9. Moontalk 4:25 Laurel Halo Laurel Halo : Dust

10. Holding On 5:51 The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding

11. Other voices 6:43 LCD Soundsystem American dream

12. Don't Believe The Fife 6:24 Mogwai Every Country's Sun (Ltd Box)

Best wishes,

Peter