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Podcast Ep. 50 | Nilifur Yanya | My Method Actor

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EP. 62 | Juniper | Joy Crookes – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

We are officially 62 months old. Welcome to the latest episode of This Is Not Happening, an album of the month podcast.In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month Guy brings back an artist that we first featured in early 2022, Joy Crookes. Joy is tackling the tricky 2nd album syndrome with her latest release 'Juniper'.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month, we stick with theme of 'Joy' and ask each other to brings tracks that bring us joy and happiness.                                —– Part 1 | Joy Crookes | Juniper —–In January 2022 we reviewed Joy's debut Skin. The consensus was that we loved it and it became a very important and deeply album for some of us. In terms of expectations, the bar was raised when Joy released the single 'Pass the Salt' in January of this year. So what did we get with this sophomore release? Well, a lot is the simple answer! Perhaps not a big leap stylistically but a massive long-jump forwards in terms of song writing and performance. Will that be enough for the pod … have a listen and tell us what you think.Listen to the album … HEREWatch some great videos … HEREWatch a great reaction video from Jakar right … HERERead a great interview with Joy in Glamour magazine … HEREListen to a deeply personal and revealing interview … HERE                                  —– Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | 'Joy' —–Songs that bring us 'Joy and Happiness' sounds like a simple theme to find music for … well, not for one of us who revels in the dark and miserable side of music. The selections are predictably brilliant!Nolan chose 'Jayou' by Jurassic 5.David chose 'Make Me Smile (Come up and see me)' by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.Joey chose 'Superstylin' by Groove Armada.Guy went mental and chose 'Josephine' by Chris Rea!We all chose 4 tracks as a shortlist which we combine into a belter of a 16 track playlist, listen to that bad boy HERE.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
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We’ve hit the BIG 5-0 and we’re still speaking to each other. It’s delgight to welcome to Episode 50 of This is Not Happening (TINH).  An Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast where in Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’.  This is where we pick a theme and each select a song that represents that theme. We judge each others selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?

This month, in Part 1, David introduces the latest album from one of my favourite obsession artists, ‘My Method Actor’ by Nilifur Yanya.

In Part 2, Spin It or Bin It, we return for our quarterly visit to the theme of ‘New Music’ … anything released since August 1st.

Part 1 | Nilifur Yanya | My Method Actor

This is the third full length studio album from Yanya. She is a super interesting artist blending soul, jazz, indie and a bunch of other sounds and influences in there. This album is something of a departure for her following her last 2 albums that perhaps embraced the indie side of her influences. This album is a super smart melding of all of her influences, definitely leaning more towards the soul and jazz side of her music. It feels like a return to some of her earliest EP releases and I love it for that fact.

  • Listen to the album … HERE
  • Watch a video of her performing a track from her 2nd EP back in 2017 on the BBC Introducing stage …  HERE
  • 2 Tracks from the new album get a very low-fi video, watch them both HERE and HERE
  • The obligatory Jimmy Fallon performance link is … HERE
  • Interesting interview on ‘The Talk.Com’, this is a quick read and enlightening … read it HERE


Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | New Music

Super-simple, we all chose a track that we love from the last couple of months and ask each the simple binary question, Spin It or Bin It?

See you on Episode 51 …

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