Playlist: Kinky Afro, 3RRR August 12

I filled in for Karen Leng last night on Triple R's Kinky Afro program. Below is the playlist for anyone playing at home. Be aware too that the Radiothon is on at the moment, its the perfect time to show your support for the station and the good work it does across the year. Plus you can win prizes too. Yay! Join me from 4pm next week for a radiothon special of Kinky Afro... meanwhile, the playlist:

Kinky Afro, 4-7pm August 12 2010

The Black Keys - the only one
Beach Fossils - daydream
Deerhunter - revival
Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm
Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes
Menomena - TAOS
Fang Island - treeton
ceo - white magic
Long long long - cuba gooding jr
JEFF the brotherhood - heavy krishna
Mystery Jets - the girl is gone
Yo La Tengo - Centre of gravity
Ratatat - drugs
tunng - don't look down or back
Sun Kil Moon - admiral fell promises
Dan Kelly - cool water
Avi Buffalo - whats in it for?
Arcade Fire - deep blue
Blitzen Trapper - the tree
Suckers - a mind I knew
The Books - all you need is a wall
No Age - glitter
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - bright lit blue skies
National Trust - see no evil
Beat Connection - in the water
Super Melody - champagne glass
PVT - window
((PVT interview))
PVT - and radiation
!!! - jamie my intentions are bass
Wild Nothing - the witching hour
The Ancients - street funk
The Solomons - ways of escape
Gold Tango - just an experiment
Panda Bear - tomboy
Twin Sister - all around and away we go
Happy Birthday - subliminal message
Envelopes - party
Archers of Loaf - harnessed in slums
Dr Dog - unbearable why
Spoon - i summon you

More here: http://www.rrr.org.au/program/kinky-afro/

The Avalanches

News from Triple J this week on a new album from lost-in-action sample-maestros The Avalanches (pictured above before they reverted to just a 3 piece).

Modular's label chief Steve Pav told Triple J:

"After many, many moons and several years that have passed by and several promises of getting a new album I've been assured that on Christmas Day they're going to deliver their new album to my little grotty hands." link

If it does surface (and this scribe isn't hedging any bets) it will be The Avalanche's first release since their incredible album of 2000 - Since I Left You. Pitchfork were reporting on the existence of its mythical follow-up way back in January 2007, quoting the band as saying of the new album, which never surfaced:

"much of last year was spent cutting up the spoken word/instructional records we need to tell the albums musical story, and we have some 40 odd songs we're narrowing down and finishing. so its real, it exists, and you know we wouldn't be serving anything up unless it was gonna give you that same special feeling that since has. funnily enough its ended up sounding like the next logical step to since, we just had to go around in a big circle to get back to where we belong." link

Oh, yeah? So the last two years have been spent doing what exactly? Going around in more circles? Some new Avalanches sounds (about 52 seconds anyway) has popped up on this teaser for the upcoming Nevereverland festival. It will be interesting to see if this represents their future aesthetic (more orchetral, pastoral, lush). But even if Santa does give Pav the album for Xmas, its likely to be a while before we get to hear it. No doubt the sample clearing is gonna be another monumental effort.

In the meantime (which could be a long time) check out details on their epic Since I Left You (a must own record) on Wikipedia, more of their tunes (including remixes) are on myspace and below is the lovely little video of that album's title cut...