At Sombrero Fallout we’ve been working away diligently for 39 episodes since 2017. After a long break in the middle and, prompted by a couple of passing comments, we decided to start again.
No-one wants to feel they’re shouting down a well and nobody’s listening, whatever they may pretend. Since our Guardian nomination (see Episode 39 blog), listenership has multiplied many times over. We’ve had our first thousand listenership episode, with Songs Recorded At Home, Part One. Stats aren’t terribly important, and yet in another way, they are. It does my desiccated, cynical heart the world of good to know we’re being shared round the world.
This topic here is, once again, songs recorded at home. It is the middle episode of a three-part series, especially relevant to the era of spending rather more time domestically than is ideal.
We’ve got established artists such as Modest Mouse, The Fall, Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens, The Microphones and Bon Iver. But we’ve also tried to cover more minor artists such as MyKey, Phox and Castlebeat. There’s even Fleetwood frikkin’ Mac, for one night only. I swear though, we’re not selling out.
No, no, no.
Tracklist:
Let it happen, Tame Impala
Oh Anna, The Microphones
I wake up in the city, The Fall
Was it something I said, MyKey
Slow motion, Phox
Creature fear, Bon Iver
Telephone, Castlebeat
Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
Edit the sad parts, Modest Mouse
Tusk, Fleetwood Mac