Just Released - 2013 [Ep.18]

This week on Just Released with Bill Riner & Brandon Stewart:

Saturday 25^th & Sunday 26^th May 2013

“One more time,

  One more time,

  One more time,

  One more time,…”,

                        “One More Time” – Daft Punk (2000)

True, Daft Punk aren’t known for their lyrics. But that doesn’t mean the robots aren’t winning. And it won’t stop their just released album, ‘Random Access Memories’ from making its debut at (or very close to) #1. The Progressive House duo has been celebrating dancefloor culture since the late ‘90s but this time, the synths and sequencers have mostly been left at home. In their place are real musicians, lots of them. At times, it seems like Daft Punk are guests on their own album with the lion’s share of its sound shaped by others. Master of ceremonies here is Nile Rodgers whose unimpeachably funky guitar grooves are all over the place. Elsewhere, is Giorgio Moroder, one of the architects of Disco. This is Daft Punk bringing it all back home and saying, Respec’ to the music that inspired them. As a footnote, Australian Pop icons, Sherbet will also be sharing in the royalties: Daryl Braithwaite, Tony Mitchell and Garth Porter are co-credited on one track for a “sample” from their 1981 song, “We Ride Tonight” used in the album’s final song. (Yay, “Local” angle.) 

There’s always a little dust on the Comeback Trail but there was a little extra this week with the return of Baby Animals. Suze DeMarchi and her band have overcome a great deal of misfortune during their career but remind us they are not ready to throw in the towel. The title of their new album makes their intentions clear: ‘This Is Not The End’. Sharing that sentiment is Australian singer/songwriter, Wes Carr. Once referred to as the “former Australian Idol winner”, he may now be known as the former Wes Carr. Believing his own name to have been “tainted” by the corporate stank of his brush with Idol, TAFKAWC is now known by the newly adopted moniker of Buffalo Tales.

It may be around 8 years since their last album but we’re still not calling the latest from Scottish band, Texas a comeback. Whilst many UK bands from the 80s are now reforming, Texas never really went away. Along with Sharleen Spiteri and her band, other talented women with new music in this edition are England’s, Laura Marling (‘I Was An Eagle’) and America’s Patty Griffin, who takes time out from singing with Robert Plant’s band to make her 7^th album (‘American Kid’) in memory of her late father.

Texas: “The Conversation” (from the album ‘The Conversation’)

Patty Griffin: “Go Wherever You Wanna Go”/”Ohio” (from the album, ‘American Kid’)

Baby Animals: “Email" (from the album, ‘This Is Not The End’)

Daft Punk: “Give Life Back To Music”/”Lose Yourself To Dance” (from the album, ‘Random Access Memories’)

Buffalo Tales: “Amsterdam” (from the album, ‘Road Trip Confessions’)

Laura Marling: ”I Was An Eagle” (from the album, ‘I Was An Eagle’)

Daft Punk: “Giorgio By Moroder” (from the album, ‘Random Access Memories’)

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