STACK #138 Apr 2016

NEWS MUSIC

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G ood day chums, and welcome to April: the month during which I have to remember a birthday every few hours and also the season of Hilltop Hoods, spectacular Restrung tour. My chat with MC Pressure was most illuminating, and I got to be nerdy and tell you all about orchestral instruments. My favourite is the oboemaboe. Meanwhile, if you've not already seen or heard the news somewhere on our social media apparatuses, we are looking for keen as Colonel music writers to join our live review crew! If you want to be a STACK GigPig, we might have a spot in the sty for your curly li'l tail. See all the details at stack.net.au. Zo ë Radas (Music Editor)

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On My Speakers

Do It, Try It from Junk by M83 This one gives you the same amusing, transcendental feeling as Daft Punk but with more warped voices and intensely uncool electric piano. Not for everyone but definitely for me.

Dinosaur City from Teenage Dreams by Big White It's really difficult to pick just one cut from this phenomenal album, which has instantly become the soundtrack to all my courtyard gatherings. Start here, and you probably won't stop.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR THE DANDY WARHOLS L ate last year, The Dandy Warhols nearly gave up. A huge storm ripped through Portland and stomped its Docs straight through the roof of The Odditorium, the studio-cum- hangout which Courtney Taylor- Taylor and his bandmates have occupied for years. “It happened five days after we turned in our record,” the frontman says in his sweet, lazy timbre. “To work on a record for three years and not have copies or duplicates or back- ups, outside of that same room? Dude, and then we left on tour three days later, so if we hadn’t found it, it would’ve been raining into our studio for months.” Distortland was a hell of a ride in general (“You know how you know a record’s done? When you have destroyed, or damaged severely, every interpersonal relationship in your life”), but the journey began on Taylor-Taylor’s Yamaha cassette four-track, a INTERVIEW

LOOSE TOOTH

MUSIC

T he latest signatories to Courtney Barnett's label are Loose Tooth, and they're an absolutely charming, sloppily rattling, fuzzily nonchalant, female-fronted affair. We dig very much.

Distortland by The Dandy Warhols is out now through Dine Alone/Cooking Vinyl.

Saturn Returns

by Loose Tooth is out now through Milk! Records.

know that Arcade Fire song, Reflektor ? So I had seen that [Win Butler] had gotten a lot of sh-t for using bongos. He was going, ‘Well,’” – a theatrical sigh – “’F-ck you, y’know! Like, whatever!’ And I thought… perfect .” He spills his low giggle again. “I gotta have bongos. It’s the first rule of Dr Dre: whatever is the least fashionable thing you can possibly do, do it, and have it be the loudest thing in your mix. Being a drummer and a percussionist my whole life, I play the f-ck out of the congas, man. So I ripped them out. And my engineer Brandon Eggleston came in, and he turns it up. He turns to me and goes, ‘Woah, man. Legit conga solo.’” The perfect storm indeed.

piece of equipment he’s owned since he was a child. “It’s been working for 25 years or something; it’s f-cking insane,” he says. “I’m very fast with it, I know what to do. It has a couple bells and whistles on that particular model that I know how to abuse. And they really respond to abuse,” he laughs. There are multiple treasures on this record, from the throbbing bass and Mellow Gold -era jag of Semper Fidelis to the outlaw guitar melody of Pope Reverend Jim , but the top-notch track is single STYGGO . Taylor-Taylor first laid down its “shingy, shingy, shangaly, jangly guitar” two years ago, but it’s the percussion that’s really something. Taylor-Taylor has a very deliberate reason behind the choice: “You

WEEZER

W ell, that escalated quickly. One minute we were sipping our flat whites and the next there's a newWeezer album, and Rivers Cuomo is as on point with the earnest lyrics and singalong melodies and hairy-faced guitar as ever. The belter self-titled tenth album is out now on Warner.

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