Some new music, one from very recently and one from the other side of summer. First up a song Spencer sent me back in August, a group from Paris called Les Nuits Primitives and their song Vietnamese Travel Company, a delicious collision of 60s Saint Etienne/ Stereolab style leftfield pop,/ yé-yé and some big crunchy guitar chords. There's an album from 2018 at Bandcamp which includes Vietnamese Travel Company, but a different version so I'm assuming the one from June 2024 is a newly recorded one. At YouTube the comments are all in French- 'C'est très chouette!' and 'pouahhh je voulais que ça s'arrête JAMAIS !!! c'est bordel taille de incroyable' are the two standouts.
Much more recent, out yesterday in fact, is a new single from Mogwai, God Gets You Back, a six minute calling card/ odyssey from the Glasgow band that starts out like Tangerine Dream, synths and long chords building slowly and repetitively for two minutes until the drums and vocals kick in. Even then we're drifting fairly slowly towards the burn out husk of some dying star.
The lyrics were written by Barry Burns' seven year old daughter due to Barry being stuck for words. In no way is this a bad thing. Mogwai have also announced a world tour in 2025 and presumably there will be news of a new album at some point. If its as good as God Gets You Back it'll be worth waiting for.
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Good to see that VTC banger written up. Nicely described Adam. I would love to attend a club that played that musical swirl of influences.
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