Static :: 8:00pm 22nd May 2025

On tonight’s “Static” program (Thursday 22nd May) …
We’ll speak to Cardiff-formed, Bristol-based post-hardcore messiahs mclusky about their first new album in 21 years, the wiry “the world is still here and so are we” …
Plus we’ll be spinning brand new music by Cool Sounds, Wednesday, Sofia Kourtesis, Jehnny Beth and more …
And we’ll dig into this week’s 2SER Feature Album from Melbourne’s soulful downtempo navigator Now Always Fades, the deep “Doldrums” …
Interview via Soundcloud:
Playlist:
HUNX & HIS PUNX “Alone In Hollywood On Acid” (Get Better)
COOL SOUNDS “Say Hello To My Little Fender” (Blossom Rot)
JEHNNY BETH “Broken Rib” (20L07 Music/Virgin)
SOFIA KOURTESIS featuring DAPHNI “Unidos” (Ninja Tune)
ELIAS RØNNENFELT “Carry-On Bag” (Escho)
MARK PRITCHARD and THOM YORKE “The Spirit” (Warp)
mclusky “the digger you deep” (Ipecac/Mushroom)
ADA LEA “baby blue frigidaire mini fridge” (Saddle Creek)
DIIV “Return Of Youth” (Fantasy/Concord)
NOW ALWAYS FADES “24hrs” (Northern Underground)
AUNT KATRINA “Peace Of Mind” (Crafted Sounds)
COLA “Mendicant” (Fire Talk)
GIFT “Light Runner” [GUM and GINOLI Remix] (Captured Tracks)
NATION OF LANGUAGE “Inept Apollo” (Sub Pop)
CLAIRAUDIENCE “We Move Amongst The Tribes” (Feral Media)
ELA STILES “I Like You” (Felt Sense)
INAUGURAL “Covet” (Gloomshift)
TUNE-YARDS “Perpetual Motion” (4AD/Remote Control)
LE PAIN “See You Nowhere” (Slouch)
PROVOKER “Tears In The Club” (YEAR0001)
COOL SOUNDS “Pompeii” (Blossom Rot)
WEDNESDAY “Elderberry Wine” (Dead Oceans)