Charlotte Dada - "Don't Let Me Down". Charlotte's dusky serenade, plus racket. Or a one-man band, the village percussion section, crawling on hands & knees through the dust, Charlotte in tow, playing the essence of an anniversary. Dada's "Don't Let Me Down", recorded in Ghana in the early 1970s, paints a love-affair that's coloured by punchlines, hijinks, poorly fastened rafts. A love-song sung at 11am, during an accidental eclipse.

[from the out of print Money Be No Sand / Aquarium Drunkard coincidentally posted about this (plus photo!) last week.]

Wye Oak - "Civilian". Terrific bristling number, like a hand searching the back of a dusty drawer and finding a bearclaw. (The animal hand, not the donut.) Imagine two lovers in bed, fist-fighting; an untouched glass of water; a card that is never signed. Wye Oak have brought a bag that contains everything.

[website/Civilian is due March 8 - pre-order]

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Don't miss issue two of the Incongruous Quarterly, announced earlier this week - Dan curated the music section, including unreleased "unpublishable" material by Little Scream, Grand Trine, Holy Fuck, Mean Wind, Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus, and many more.

Also, I hope you downloaded the Ernest Djedje song Dan posted - by some incongruous synchronicity, I had been rocking the very same tune for the past two weeks.

(photo above, Autoportraits, by Vladimir Nikolic)