I WISH WE COULD 23rd April 2023

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IN FOCUS: ROY MONTGOMERY

New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery's music was once described by NPR journalist Lars Gotrich as "swimming through phantoms" – it may sound like an overwrought analogy at first, but simply spend half an hour enveloped in Montgomery's tones, and you'll understand. Originally a part of Pin Group in the 1980s, releasing Joy Division-indebted post-punk on the revered Wellington label Flying Nun records, Montgomery eventually unmoored himself from the strictures of verse-chorus-verse songwriting, and other musicians entirely, composing drifting, gauzy guitar instrumentals that channeled his own personal grief and loneliness into a seductively baleful magic.

UNDERGROUND & BLACK W/ ASH LAURYN

Self proclaimed “Underground and Black”, Detroit native Ash Lauryn leads her musical charge with a candid love for the historical roots of dance music, and the power of reclamation in modern day America.

Post Punk Synth Pop Indie Rock Dream Pop

Heartbreak is an oscillation between melancholy and chaotic longing. This mix explores the textures of a broken heart, always guided by the feeling of unfinished desire and every daydream in between.

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Tracklist

0:00:10
Dead Man's BonesDead Man's Bones feat. The Silverlake Conservatory Of Music Children's Choir
Intro
0:01:00
DesireDesire
Don't Call
0:05:30
Eerie PleaseEerie Please
Spark

ChromaticsChromatics
Shadow (Radio)
Musique Le PopMusique Le Pop
Turn to Sand
Choir BoyChoir Boy
I Feel How The Snow Falls
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Black MarbleBlack Marble
A Million Billion Stars
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath
Medusa (Excerpt)
Eno, Eno, CaleCale
Lay My Love
The HorrorsThe Horrors
Still Life
Love and RocketsLove and Rockets
The Teardrop Collector
SpiritualizedSpiritualized
Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
My Bloody ValentineMy Bloody Valentine
Sometimes
PixiesPixies
Cactus
Ciccone YouthCiccone Youth
Addicted To Love