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Podcast Episode 19 – Joy Crookes – Skin

Ep. 32 | Everything But The Girl | Fuse This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

In Part 1 we explore the new Everything But The Girl album Fuse,  and ask is it worth the 24 year wait? In Part 2 we play Spin It or Bin It? The theme this month is new music … tracks that have been released since Feb 1st 2023.Part 1 | Album of the Month | EBTG | FuseIt's Nolan's choice this month and we go with the long awaited / not even expected 12th studio album from Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. It's rare that we get to talk about an artist that we all have a significant relationship, but this is a great example. In January we got treated to the track Nothing Left to Loose but the album offers much more. It's got just about every type of EBTG track you can think of and some of their best tracks ever.Go listen to the album – HereGo watch some videos – HereGo buy some of their stuff – HereSome links that we reference and recommend; Pitchfork interview – Click HereBBC Radio 5 Live interview – Click HereEBTG in conversation at Rough Trade – Click HerePart 2 | Spin It or Bin It | New MusicIt's been a few months since we did new music so here we go. There's a definite whiff of summer in the air!Nolan chose – Amplify by Rodriguez Jr.David chose – Mo Se B'ola Tan by The Estuary 21 Joey chose – Sandrail Silhouette by Avalon Emerson Guy chose – Everybody's Saying That by Girl RayIn order to chose our tracks we create a long list, then a short list of 4 tracks each. Each of our 4x track short lists are collated here … have a listen. *** Enjoy the episode ***We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
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Part 1 – Album of the Month

This Is Not Happening kicks off the New Year with a great album from the end of 2021, Joy Crookes’ debut release ‘Skin’. We discuss our expectations and reactions, similarities between this album and a certain other soul singer from London and get deep into our favourite tracks from the album. There’s lovely point of pod-synergy when Nolan predicts with 100% accuracy Joey’s favourite track and more impressively, the reason for this selection.

Joy Crookes announces debut album with title-track “Skin”

Part 2 – ‘Spin it or Bin it’

In the second part of this episode we take inspiration from Joy’s stomping ground and we all bring a track from South London that we love.  Each of us introduce our track and ask the others if they want to ‘spin it’ or ‘bin it’;

Joey’s track selection is –  Ha ha by Ty
Guy’s track selection is – Little More Love by A J Tracey
Nolan’s track selection is – Sad Cowboy by Goat Girl
David’s track selection is – You Look Certain (I’m not so sure) by Mount Kimbie

A link to a mini-Spotify-playlist of these 4 tracks can be found here.

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