About this episode

This episode features music writer Vanessa Roulston Mooney discussing the best music of the month, including new albums and notable artists.

This month's guest returns after her January visit — it's music writer Vanessa Roulston Mooney, fresh from Jack White, Primavera and Féile na Gréine. We start with the big one: Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend, her first solo album in six years, and whether an hour of cosmic, string-drenched, banjo-flecked ambition is too much of a good thing. Then James Ellis Ford's Lost In Another World, written and recorded alone from a hospital bed in two weeks during leukaemia treatment, and somehow the most accessible thing he's made referencing OMD and Blue Nile. That leads us to J Dilla, who made much of Donuts the same way, and to Dilligence 2, where Busta Rhymes finally uses some of the 300 beats Dilla handed him before he died in 2006, with D'Angelo, Lil Wayne, T3, Talib Kweli, Ludacris and Jon Batiste along for it. Also: GB's Heirsprung, its lyrics cut up from free copies of the London Metro and funded by a Jaguar ad; Never-Never's Colour Form, and the Copenhagen music school quietly producing half the artists Vanessa loves - Erika de Casier, ML Buch, Fine, Snuggle and GB all came through the same place; Cornelius' eighth album; Pulp's first ever live album, somehow; the short, sharp MF…

People in this episode

Host: Nialler9

Guest: Vanessa Roulston Mooney

Topics covered

• music review
• album discussion
• artist highlights
• music industry
• new releases

Keywords

• Phoebe Bridgers
• Vanessa Roulston Mooney
• James Ellis Ford
• J Dilla
• music review
• new releases
• album discussion
• Pulp
• Denzel Curry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: London Metro, Jaguar

Books & works: Lost Weekend, Lost In Another World, Donuts, Dilligence 2, Heirsprung, Colour Form, Cornelius' eighth album, Pulp's first ever live album, Really Good Time, Mischa And The Bear

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