Back again for another look back at 3 key releases from the past month, Gemma Samways, Sam Walton and Stuart Stubbs discuss new albums from Ethel Cain, Mac DeMarco and Water From Your Eyes, with just enough time to reconsider MGMT’s willfully difficult second album Congratulations, release 15 years ago. Was it as bad as everybody said back then? Has it got better with age? And what’s it like to be a label who has to reject an album?

Further reading/viewing

Dom Haley’s Water From Your Eyes interview

The Guadian’s article on Terence Trent D’Arby

Mac DeMarco on the Midnight Chats podcast

Mac DeMarco in Amsterdam

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