Trust a postman to advocate paying close attention to the names on their band's mailing list. It paid handsome dividends for Joe Thompson and Hey Colossus, who convinced Mark Lanegan to go from long-time fan to collaborator. The fruits of their efforts, 'The Mirror', appears on new album Dances/Curses and, as one unusually astute YouTube commenter has put it, sounds like "Lanegan does Slint".
In conversation with the Quietus' Patrick Clarke, Thompson also spoke about taking the courageous step of launching his own record label, Wrong Speed Records, and the hugely significant and continuing impact of the pandemic - though he did admit that "[t]his whole thing hasn't affected the bands at our level in the way it's affected those the level or two up". Like me, it's kindred spirits Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs for whom he feels most sorry: "it really felt like this was supposed to be their year".
The interview served as a handy reminder that Thompson's book Sleevenotes and Lanegan's memoir Sing Backwards And Weep are still on my shopping list rather than on my shelves. Poor form.
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