It Won't Stop

 

Earlier this year, Helicon, a band from East Kilbride, Glasgow, released their latest album to date. It’s a well-crafted blend of psychedelic guitars and a good dose of krautrock. On this album, they have taken things a step further and decided to collaborate with the American DJ Al Lover, who makes greater use of electronic instruments. This has done their sound a world of good, as the result is a dense, hypnotic and extremely rhythmic album that combines trip-hop breaks, deep basslines and dub textures with Helicon’s psychedelic sound.

If you can’t get enough of this music, you should have a listen to their version of the Neu! classic.

Animal Wednesday

 

The latest installment in this little animal-themed series takes us back to 1981, when the Texan blues-rockers released their last reasonably convincing album before watering down their earthy sound with synthesizers.

Of course, the song ‘Wild Horses’ simply has to be included here. Today, however, it’s not the version by the Rolling Stones or Gram Parsons from the early seventies, but the one by Gino Vannelli, a Canadian rock and jazz musician, who would go on to have his only chart hit with this song in 1987.

And to round off today’s programme, here’s a ska/pop hit by Madness from 1983.