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Steve chats with, and has brand new music from, The Anchoress

Steve Lamacq chats with, and has brand new music from, The Anchoress and also has the first play of new music from JJerome87 - aka Joe Newman from alt-J.

Steve Lamacq chats with, and has brand new music from, The Anchoress. New single - ‘I Had a Baby Not A Lobotomy’ (feat Gwenno), is taken from her forthcoming third studio album, As We Once Were which is due for release in August. The album was self-produced at Black Lodge and Townshend Studios - where she had access to a wealth of vintage synthesizers previously owned by The Who and was developed over the past two years, with Catherine Anne Davies stockpiling musical ideas after the birth of her daughter, “diving backwards into the past as a means to go forwards”.

She describes the album as “a conversation across four generations of women”, born out of the collision of two moments from the recent past: being given access to work with all of Pete Townshend’s collection of vintage analogue synths at the Townshend Studios in West London against the backdrop of the birth of her first child after numerous losses, and the discovery of her grandmother’s voice on a long-lost cassette tape in her mother’s attic.

Steve also has the first play of new music from JJerome87 - aka Joe Newman from alt-J and Roland Gift from the Fine Young Cannibals talks us through their massive hit - She Drives Me Crazy.

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Music Played

  • James

    Come Home

    • Fontana.
  • isobel

    Rachel

    • Self-release.
  • Hot Hot Heat

    Bandages

    • Subpop.
  • Brooke Combe

    Tears Won't Lie

    • Fontana UK.
  • Boiling Point

    Let's Get Funktified

    • Bang Records.
  • Gretel

    Squish

    • Breadcrumb Records.
  • Anish Kumar

    Come On, Let's Get It

    • AK Cuts: Vol 3.
    • Platoon.
    • 1.
  • Klaxons

    Gravity's Rainbow

  • Two-Man Giant Squid

    3 Hits

    • 3 Hits.
    • Mint 400 Records.
    • 1.
  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Atlantic.
  • Missy Elliott

    Get Ur Freak On

    • Elektra.
  • Liz Lawrence

    Black Ulysses

    • Chrysalis Records.
  • The Coral

    Shadows Fall

    • Singles Collection.
    • Deltasonic.
    • 8.
  • Kerala Dust

    WHITE NOISE

    • WHITE NOISE.
    • Play It Again Sam.
    • 1.
  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

    • EMI.
  • Lemon Jelly

    Ramblin' Man

    • Lost Horizons.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 3.
  • Billy Bragg

    A13, Trunk Road to the Sea

    • Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 17.
  • Silver Gore

    Black Cherry Liqueur

  • Raven Maize

    Forever Together

    • Joey Negro presents It's A Summer Groove Vol.1.
    • Z Records.
    • 6.
  • JJerome87

    Track and Field

    • Mushroom Music.
  • Longpigs

    She Said

    • Polygram TV.
  • Magi Merlin

    SpiceKick

    • POWER HOUSE.
    • ONErpm.
  • Maxïmo Park

    Our Velocity

    • Warp.
  • Girl Scout

    Crumbs

    • Human Garbage Records.
  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • UMTV.
  • Fugees

    Ready Or Not

    • COLUMBIA.
  • Members of the Cast

    The Fall

    • The Fall.
  • lifeloose

    Lifeloose

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    The Staircase (Mystery)

    • The Scream.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 12.
  • School Fair

    spirally staircase memory

    • Single.
    • Mutual Records.
  • The Anchoress

    I Had A Baby Not A Lobotomy (feat. Gwenno)

  • The Prodigy

    Breathe

    • XL.
  • The Bug Club

    Yours (If You Want Me)

    • Yours (If You Want Me).
    • Sub Pop Records.
    • 1.
  • Jamie T

    Zombie

    • Carry On The Grudge.
    • Virgin.
    • 001.
  • King No-One

    Scumbag

    • Canvas Music.
  • TOMORA, AURORA & Tom Rowlands

    COME CLOSER

    • COME CLOSER.
    • Fontana.
    • 1.
  • La Sécurité

    Snack City

    • Snack City.
    • Bella Union.
  • The New Cut

    Oversight

  • MEMORIALS

    Dropped Down The Well

Broadcast

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