New Mix: Radiohead's Philip Selway, Yo La Tengo, more
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Philip Selway: "Check For Signs Of Life," from Strange Dance
2. Among Authors: "Fears We Hold" (Single)
3. Lisa O'Neill: "Old Note," from All Of This Is Chance
4. The Bad Ends: "Thanksgiving 1915," from The Power and The Glory
5. Yo La Tengo: "Fallout," from This Stupid World
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| 0:00.0 | For impure music, you're connected to all songs considered by Bob Boyland with new music from Philip Sellway. |
| 0:07.0 | Radiohead's drummer put out a solo album in 2010 and then won in 2014. |
| 0:12.0 | A few years later he scored music for a film called Let Me Go. |
| 0:16.0 | Now he has a new album called Strange Dance and it's coming in February. |
| 0:21.0 | Here's Philip Sellway to take us to the first song from that album titled Check for Signs of Life. |
| 0:27.0 | So since I last released anything it's been quite a while and in the intervening years I think it's fair to say that we've gone through a period of quite considerable change. |
| 0:39.0 | And for me this song addresses those feelings of displacement and isolation that you can sometimes feel when you go through those periods of big change. |
| 0:52.0 | I think it's me trying to find the kind of like chinks of hope in there and that sense of connection which has definitely been quite elusive these past few years. |
| 1:04.0 | The record was produced and mixed by the incredible Martha Salonio and gave me a chance to work with some of my favourite musicians too. |
| 1:16.0 | Like Adrian Uptley and Quinter, Laura Moody, Hannah Peel, Valentina Magaletti and a cast of many many more. |
| 1:27.0 | So I hope you enjoy it and here it is. This is Check for Signs of Life. |
| 1:48.0 | Coming back again to what I know is not the same. It feels all out of place. |
| 2:08.0 | It's in the cracks we wait. |
| 2:23.0 | So let's song day like it in. Check for Signs of Life that's dust on everything. |
| 2:38.0 | I say your name and it sounds different now you go. |
| 2:44.0 | I say your name and it sounds different now you go. |
| 2:59.0 | I couldn't be alone tonight. I need you here by my side. I'm lost without you now. |
| 3:20.0 | While the walls close in, memories of a life has been traces on around. |
| 3:35.0 | So let's song day like it in. Check for Signs of Life that's dust on everything. |
| 3:49.0 | I say your name and it sounds different now you go. |
| 3:55.0 | While this life has changed and shaped us home. |
| 4:02.0 | And this life has changed forever more. |
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