Jason Barnard presents his highlights of latest new music on the Strange Brew stereo.

Ian Button returns via Papernut Cambridge‘s latest long player with a Village Green Ray Davies – Hunky Dory Bowie-esque LP Outstairs Instairs. Typified by lead track ‘Buckerminster Fullerene’, ‘Now Even Steven’ and ‘Angelo Aggy’, this Anglophile left-field pop will linger long into your ears from 29 June via Gare du Nord.

Rodney Cromwell ‘Rodney’s English Disco’ EP mines the creative peaks of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder. If you have any interest in the 70s/80s synth sound this is a must purchase via Bandcamp or Happy Robots.

Shriekback‘s 14th studio album ‘Why Anything? Why This?’ has justly been hailed as one of their finest. A defiantly undefinable mix of Cohen-esque blues, shuffling percussion and cutting lyrics. More information is available at shriekback.com

Italian group The Mads have quite a heritage, being active in the second wave of mod in the late 70s/early 80s. Having reunited in 2012 their new album ‘The Orange Plane’ show that the band at their best. ‘What I Need’ is a vibrant melodic treat which mixes The Creation’s ‘Making Time’ feel with a soaring pop harmony. Dig deeper at themads.org

Schizo Fun Addict‘s “El Shoegaze Bossa Nova” is a brilliantly mad mix of shoegazing bossa-nova filtered through Ennio Morricone- out now on vinyl via Sugarbush Records and streaming on Soundcloud.

Curvey, the driving force behind The Luck of Eden Hall, has a new record out under the Custard Flux banner. Born out of a vision to play progressive psychedelic pop without any electricity it is A delightful chocked full of psych pop songwriting, English folk and innovative intertwining production. Available now through Bandcamp.

Previous Strange Brew interviewee Natalie Shay takes a bold step into synth-pop with Perfume, a track that adds 80s sparkle to her singer-songwriter sensibility.

2 thoughts on “Big Hits & Fazed Cookies

  1. All excellent …..Soundsg Good radio show will be back to feature most of these great artists sometime in July starting with an interview with Jet of Schizo Fun Addict‘ and then Curvey about his great harmonium restoration and then Pete Bingham aboyt th 16th Dream of Dr Sardonicus at cardigan….

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