STACK #233 March 2024

MUSIC FEATURE

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Here we peruse a selection of the wax wonders we’re looking forward to spinning next month! Check out the JB site for multiple formats and coloured vinyl available for pre-order, while stocks last. Words Zoë Radas THE SOUNDS IN OUR SIGHTS FOR APRIL

VAMPIRE WEEKEND ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US (SONY) Influenced by the classic Indian

KHRUANGBIN A LA SALA (DEAD OCEANS)

The title of Khruangbin’s fourth studio album means ”To the Room” in Spanish, and the incessantly unique three-piece are faithfully pushing their sound to the room, out the window, in the sky and beyond. A la Sala variously explores the seams of spaghetti western film scores, West African discos, G-funk fancies, lounge room dance parties, and found sounds. We’re so very glad that they’re back. JIMMY BARNES FLESH AND WOOD (REISSUE) (BLOODLINES) Barnesy is celebrating 30 years since the

improvisational singing mode of raga (lessons in which Ezra Koenig recently took in rural Japan), Only God Was Above Us is shaping up to be a fascinating entry into Vampire Weekend’s catalogue. Other sources of inspo reportedly include 20th century New York aesthetic, and the 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 mid-air explosion, from which the album derives its title; it was a quote from one of the surviving passengers,

Jimmy Barnes

release of his brilliant seventh solo album Flesh and Wood . Eight of its 15 tracks are duets, and comprise some of the most powerful material Barnes has ever recorded; there’s We Could Be Gone with the late Archie Roach, Guilty with Joe Cocker, The Weight with The Badloves, Let it Go with Deborah Conway, and more. Grab it on sand coloured vinyl – and signed by Jimmy! GARBAGE BLEED LIKE ME (REISSUE) (LIBERATION/BMG) To the delight of Wisconsin-via-Edinburgh rocks fans everywhere, Liberation have gone ahead and remastered Garbage’s 2005 album Bleed Like Me . We can’t

describing their thoughts at the moment the aircraft’s roof was torn clean off.

Khruangbin

wait to hear the perennial belter Why Do You Love Me on vinyl, not to mention

Garabage

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