STACK #166 Aug 2018

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Nellie Jackson gives us the lowdown on how she and bandmates Etta Curry and Luc Dawson assembled Keep Up – LooseTooth's new, guitar pop-chockers album. LOOSE TOOTH

The clip for lead single Keep On is the three of you keepin’ on via a bunch of different modes of transport. Did anyone fight for (“I’m in the tank!”) or fight against (“Do not try to put me on a horse so help me”) any of those modes? We were so strapped for time when making this clip! We literally had three days to make it work, which is a difficult task when you have so many locations to shoot. This meant that everyone just had to get what they were given, and make it work! But to be honest... everyone wished they had been in the tank. PS: The horse was so cool :)

to chart them out or do you just begin singing? Etta is our harmony go- to guru. She is a wizard. She will usually come up with the melody and then we’ll just practice until we get it right. I will be filled with self-doubt for many months until I feel comfortable with the harmony. Usually you just have to fake it ‘til you make it. In InThe Morning , one of the melodies for the line “For a long long long long time” reminds me of Del Shannon’s hit Runaway (“And I wonder… why why why why why”). Are you fans of his ‘60s country-rock sound?

Luc Dawson, Nellie Jackson, Etta Curry

Keep Up by Loose Tooth is out August 3 via Milk!Remote Control.

How awesome! We certainly are, but it wasn’t

the record. It is, after all, Etta’s favourite instrument. Our longtime friend Dale Packard came in and let rip on those songs, and we gave him freedom to do as he pleased! Everyone loves a bit of sax in their lives, after all! What did you learn about the touring life during your UK & EU dates with labelmate/head Courtney Barnett? We learnt that we never want to tour without Courtney Barnett again :). ZKR

in the front of our mind when writing this song. I think we all grew up with a lot of ‘60s music in general, so it must be subliminal. Who’s playing those stabs of sax in Bad One and YouWant It , and when did you decide those tracks deserved that little something? We always had the plan of bringing in the saxophone for

You’re well known for your gorgeous harmonies. Do you try

HARMONY

BLOODS

T here’s two outcomes to a double negative: a negative (“I didn’t say nothing”) or a positive (“I didn’t not do it”). It’s a weird and fascinating and contradictory phenomenon, and so is the brutal beauty of Harmony’s new album. In a voice so raw it’s jerking on the plate, Tom Lyngcoln sings: “Silence in the halls, one thing rings true: this tragic devotional, devoted to you,” as he bears up his self-sliced heart. What is this song called? Indifference . Although Lyngcoln’s lyrics often rhyme with a deliberate pattern, he still sounds like he’s telling stories that are just tumbling out; as always, seraphic harmonies from Erica Dunn, Amanda Roff and Quinn Veldhuis

F eelings is lush. With all the layering and overdubs, it feels a million miles from the scrappy upstarts that once covered the Spider-Man theme song and traded in bratty blasts like 2012’s All The Things You Say Are Wrong . Those tracks were perfectly of the time, but this new material reflects growth during the years they spent incommunicado. The backbone is still pure power- pop-punk – twisting a cheerleader chant into a hook on Step Back , getting all bright and bouncy on Part Of Me – but the dreamy quality reflects a record that gets plenty introspective. There was a time Bloods seemed defunct, but they’re back, full grown, and full of grit. Jake Cleland

Feelings by

Bloods is out August 17 via Sub Pop.

are sudden moonlight on the turgid sea. Harmony have delivered another terribly original basket of melancholic punk rock. ZKR

Double Negative by Harmony is out now via Poison City Records.

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