On tonight’s “Static” program (Thursday 15th May) …

We’ll chat to Seattle’s cacophonous rock conceptualizers Car Seat Headrest about their audacious new album, the song cycle “The Scholars” …

Plus we’ll be spinning brand new music by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, mclusky, The Dare, Gina Birch and more …

And we’ll dig into this week’s 2SER Feature Album from Galway’s ethereal dreamgaze marvel Maria Somerville, the luminous “Luster” …

Interview via Soundcloud:

Playlist:
ALIEN BOY “You Want Me To” (Get Better)
MARK PRITCHARD and THOM YORKE “Happy Days” (Warp)
mclusky “cops and coppers” (Ipecac/Mushroom)
THE DARE “I Can’t Escape Myself” (Republic)
ADULT MOM “You In June” (Epitaph)
LIFEGUARD “Under Your Reach” (Matador/Remote Control)
CAR SEAT HEADREST “Devereaux” (Matador/Remote Control)
FRANKIE COSMOS “Bitch Heart” (Sub Pop)
M83 “First Steps Upward” (Other Suns)
MARIA SOMERVILLE “Violet” (4AD/Remote Control)
ARCADE FIRE “Alien Nation” (Columbia)
PREOCCUPATIONS “Andromeda” (Born Losers)
DECIUS “I Gave Birth 2 U” [MEDICINE 8 Remix] (The Leaf Label)
DERADOORIAN “Storm In My Brain” (Fire)
NPCEDE “Swallow” (Chapter Music)
GAUCI “Written On My Face” (www.gauci.bandcamp.com)
THE EMPTY THREATS “the one” (www.theemptythreats.bandcamp.com)
GODDESS featuring DELILAH HOLLIDAY “Animal” (Bella Union)
MARK PRITCHARD and THOM YORKE “The Men Who Dance In Stag’s Heads” (Warp)
GINA BIRCH “Causing Trouble Again” (Third Man)