Ep. 36 | Creep Show | Yawning Abyss Artwork

This Is Not Happening - An Album Of The Month Podcast

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Ep. 36 | Creep Show | Yawning Abyss

August 22, 2023 • Guy, Nolan, Joey and David • Season 4 • Episode 1

Welcome to Episode 36 of This is Not Happening. An Album of the Month Podcast where in Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play 'Spin it or Bin it'. This is where we pick a theme and each select a song that represents that theme. We judge each others selections by asking the question 'Spin It or Bin It'? This month, we get stuck right into Creep Show's 'Yawning Abyss' in Part 1 and in Part 2 we play Spin It or Bin It with the theme 'Super-Producers'.

Part 1 | Album of the Month | Creep Show's 'Yawning Abyss'

It's Guy's choice this month and he choses a bleak little oddity by Creep Show called Yawning Abyss. Creep Show are a 'Super Group' of John Grant, Phil Winter (Tuung), Stephen Mallinder (Caberet Volataire) and Ben 'Benge' Edwards (Prolific Producer). This is their 2nd album as a collective and they channel the dark, the dystopian and the hopeless across 9 tracks and 40-ish minutes of music. There are elements of each individuals previous work but there is distinctive sound that the band capture themselves.

Listen to the album here or some tracks here.
Visit their Bandcamp here.

Here are few links to provide a little background.

Read a very short interview with Creep Show here and another here.
Watch Creep Show play 'Yawning Abyss' live at latitude here.
The Metacritic album page can be found here.

Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It? | Super-Producers

What is a Super-Producer? It turns out we all have a different definition, no surprises there I guess! But collectively we kind of agree that a Super-Producer is (i) successful (ii) prolific (iii) has had a significant impact on music (iv) spans numerous artists and perhaps genres.

David chose 'I never loved a man' by Aretha Franklin (Jerry Wexler)
Joey chose 'Gamma Ray' by Beck (Dangermouse)
Nolan chose 'NY State of Mind' by Nas (DJ Premier)
Guy chose 'Weird Fish / Arpeggi' by Radiohead (Nigel Godrich)

In order to select our tracks we shortlist 4 each and create a 16 track playlist that can be found here.

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