Ep. 33 | Everything But The Girl | Fuse Artwork

This Is Not Happening - An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to This Is Not Happening: an album of the month podcast with four massive music fans that have been talking and blogging about their favourite records for the last ten years together. An exiled Londoner in the North (Guy), a Leeds scriptwriter (David), ex-housemates in Leeds Joey and Nolan whose paths all crossed through music, be it festivals, DJing, gigs, or just sitting at home listening to entire albums without talking. Music is the bedrock of our friendship. The podcast name nods to our one nailed-on shared love: LCD Soundsystem, but our tastes are wide, sometimes odd, and often not the same! From bass to balearic, disco to dub, house to hip-hop, folk to funk, pop to punk, and rock to r'n'b, we'll all have music to champion, ready to be blessed or butchered by each other. Each episode we'll be talking freely about our album of the month, and what we've been listening to lately. The conversation twists and turns, and while we are serious about music, it's not so much that we can't enjoy ourselves talking about it, in fact it's why we do it. For everything we've loved in the past years, check out www.thisisnothappening.net, which will run alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So why not join us for the conversation. It will always be lively....

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Ep. 33 | Everything But The Girl | Fuse

May 16, 2023 • Guy, Nolan, Joey and David • Season 3 • Episode 9

In Part 1 we explore the new Everything But The Girl album Fuse, and ask is it worth the 24 year wait? In Part 2 we play Spin It or Bin It? The theme this month is new music ... tracks that have been released since Feb 1st 2023.

Part 1 | Album of the Month | EBTG | Fuse

It's Nolan's choice this month and we go with the long awaited / not even expected 12th studio album from Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. It's rare that we get to talk about an artist that we all have a significant relationship, but this is a great example. In January we got treated to the track Nothing Left to Loose but the album offers much more. It's got just about every type of EBTG track you can think of and some of their best tracks ever.

Go listen to the album - Here
Go watch some videos - Here
Go buy some of their stuff - Here

Some links that we reference and recommend;

Pitchfork interview - Click Here
BBC Radio 5 Live interview - Click Here
EBTG in conversation at Rough Trade - Click Here

Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | New Music

It's been a few months since we did new music so here we go. There's a definite whiff of summer in the air!

Nolan chose - Amplify by Rodriguez Jr.
David chose - Mo Se B'ola Tan by The Estuary 21
Joey chose - Sandrail Silhouette by Avalon Emerson
Guy chose - Everybody's Saying That by Girl Ray

In order to chose our tracks we create a long list, then a short list of 4 tracks each. Each of our 4x track short lists are collated here ... have a listen.

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