This week we're featuring the genre-bending and weird Stainless Style from Neon Neon, the collaboration between Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys.

“We wanted the tracks to sound like a new version of something familiar but also hit hard on a sound system, so it was a careful process of making sure some sounds were full and warm while others were thin and ping-y. For guitars, we mostly recorded those direct into an Eventide chorus [effects pedal]. There wasn't any reason to have an amp color the sound. It just needed to be thin, with the chorus dominating the sound” — Boom Bip

We also continue to look forward to the upcoming The Universal Want from Doves, also indulging their remix collaboration with The Comet is Coming, to take us on a bit of a jazz-detour this week.

Finally, there's a new single from Arab Strap that so, so good it's the kind of thing you point to when someone asks you why you want to have a radio show. It's to play things like this. Huge.

Also, it's been really smokey in San Francisco, so my throat is giving out a bit, having not spoken to another soul all day.

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