Honey by Josh Thorpe
Unusual Music editor Josh Thorpe launches his new album with Toronto’s Ur Audiovisual. Honey, Thorpe’s 5th album, is DIY pop with...
Unusual Music editor Josh Thorpe launches his new album with Toronto’s Ur Audiovisual. Honey, Thorpe’s 5th album, is DIY pop with...
Josh Thorpe and Asad Raza discuss Dan Graham, a radical American artist who died last year around this time. We listen...
Josh Thorpe speaks with Annie Lewandowski and Thomas Bonvalet. We listen to their unusual duet Powerdove, which combines austere melodic singing...
In this episode Josh Thorpe interviews Eric Chenaux, a composer, songwriter, guitarist living in France. Eric makes strange and lovely long...
This track, this whole album, is a psychedelic space of warmth. Sink into it like a mud bath that doesn’t smell...
This month editor Josh Thorpe’s How Things Happen launched with Canadian / French imprint Rat-drifting. Eric Chenaux writes: “Thorpe’s How Things...
This trio of women from Zurich make an unusual chorus of bass guitars. Madlaina Peer, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle on Kill...
Pleased to see Eric Chenaux play in Glasgow recently at the Glad Café with Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh. Chenaux’s new album Say...
So complex and dripping with a precise energy of what it is. Four traditionally trained pansori singers, two bassists, a drummer,...
In this episode Josh and Martin listen to Lemon Kittens, Shaggs, Junko, and the Kyoto Imperial Court Orchestra. After the break...
This episode is with video artist Renée Lear, who has taken an unusual interest in unusual music. We listen to and...
Juana Molina makes some of the strangest and most beautiful pop music we have heard. The layered subtly de-tuned harmony here...
Mike Watt and Kira Roessler’s project Dos scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. Two bass guitars with weird riffs...
It’s unusual to hear deviations from standard tuning in popular music. Ariana Grande and her group do it so sweetly here....
An eclectic radio show on Glasgow’s Clyde Built Radio. We listen to a song of mine, Sonic Youth, composer Allison Cameron,...
LeBaigue’s strange pitch-shifty pop songs are one minute long and only available on his Instagram for now. View this post on...
Deerhoof’s new album on Joyful Noise Recordings is strange and ecstatic pop music. Unusual production, guitar sounds, lyrics, song structure… Deerhoof...
Unusual punk band from London, Big Joanie coming out soon on Kill Rock Stars. Nice cover of Solange’s “Cranes in the...
Frank Harris and Maria Marquez’s “Loveroom” on Echoes (1985) is a slow dreamy pop song with shades of Sade. Available at...
Kurt Vile’s “Bassackwards” from Bottle It In. Strange song, one of those songs where only one thing happens.