This week’s SINGLE OF THE WEEK is an extra special one. Not just because it is an especially special single, which it is, but because this week’s single is a one-off. You see, renowned producer Dan Carey (who has worked with the likes of TOY, Bat For Lashes, Django Djano, Franz Ferdinand, and many more) runs his own record label, Speedy Wunderground, in a very special way.
I swear I will stop using the word special, but fuck am I tired and incapable of drawing on my generally decent vocabulary.
Carey runs his label with a 10 point plan, that centres around getting artists into his own studio in South London to record one-off tracks for the label, and recording them in such a way that there is no fucking about; songs are to be recorded within one day and finished before midnight, there is no lunch break, overdubs are to be treated with great scepticism, mixing happens the next day and is completed in that day – again, with no lunch break. On top of that, when the bands are recording they are immersed in smoke and lasers, and at some point a Swarmatron will be used.
Anyhow, the session that has caught my attention with its release week is that of the band Telegram. A four piece based in London, though their singer is originally from around about my neck of the woods in South Wales. Telegram are an exciting prospect, and an equally exciting listen, blending elements as they do of out and out psych, krautrock, and the good kind of glam (Bolan, Bowie, and Roxy Music). Inside Outside is a prime example of the sort of noise they orchestrate, and is an especially concise yet somehow untamed variation of that too.
It’s all stop and start, rise and fall, thrust and slow dance. Though, what’s also an added bonus is Carey’s dub remix of the track, taking the band in an altogether different kind of psychedelic sound spectrum.
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