Dry Cleaning, Reviews of Margo Price and SZA, and RIP Jeff Beck

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Post-punk tunes topped with dadaist deadpan lyrics are an unlikely formula for popularity in music, but that's the secret to Dry Cleaning's success. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with band members Florence Shaw and Nick Buxton about one of their favorite albums of 2022. They also review new albums by SZA and Margo Price and pay tribute to Jeff Beck. Become a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvc

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're talking with Dry Cleaning.
0:11.8	I'm Jim DeRugatus and I'm Greg Katt.
0:14.3	But first we review some new music from Sizzah and Margot Price.
0:18.1	That's a bit of a song called Shirt from the new Sizzah Record, S-O-S-S-Z-A.
0:41.7	Sizzah as in Rizah from the Wu Tang Club, right?
0:45.1	But not.
0:46.1	Sizzah.
0:47.4	The second highly anticipated album in a row from this artist, Solana Roe, born in St. Louis,
0:53.5	raised in New Jersey, a high school gymnast.
0:56.3	It wasn't really sure about this music thing.
0:58.5	She started writing some music, singing some songs, and Lone Behold gets contract
1:04.3	from Kendrick Lamar's label Top Dog in her early 20s.
1:08.7	Made three EPs, collaborations with Rihanna, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj along the way.
1:14.3	She was already the talk of the town.
1:18.4	This is the next great R&B song.
1:21.4	This is an important voice.
1:23.2	And she lived up to all that hype with controlled, deeply personal record, almost diaristic,
1:28.7	the way she was approaching a lot of the songs.
1:31.4	A whole idea of sex and love and longing, African American womanhood.
1:35.8	It's all in that record, more than 100 songs written for that record, and she went
1:41.4	down.
1:42.4	And she had a hard time letting it go.
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