Homework Sheet July 2020

The Album Club Remixed July 2020

"Kid A" by Radiohead (2000)

Listen!

Be it MP3, vinyl or  cassette it goes without saying that we’ll get the most from the discussion if you have a good listen to the album in the run up.

The two key tracks* from the album are:

Track 1: Everything in its Right Place

Track 8: Idioteque

*These are tracks we’ll focus on, but we do want to talk about the whole album. 

Write!

Please can you let me have a three bullet point review of the album (by email) by 12 Noon on Thursday 2nd July or submit something via this blog.  This will help to prompt the discussion and give us something to get the ball rolling.

You can say what you loved, what you hated, what you don’t understand, how you felt, what was missing...

How it works...

You will receive an email invitation to participate via cleanfeed (you should use a WiFi/4G connection and headphones). 

We will start with some introductions and any questions before we kick off.

The discussion will take in- a bit of an overview, a discussion framed around two key tracks, comments, thoughts and views on the album. It will last for 20 mins and then be edited to form the future radio show.

The session will be hosted by James Sandy from Switch Radio and is planned to air on Tuesday 7th July 2020 @7 pm as part of regular arts & culture show The Unseen Swerve

The Album Cub Remixed #7

The Album Club Remixed is a regular virtual music discussion with recorded contributions and reviews from a growing band of volunteers.

The next album up for discussion is "Kid A" By Radiohead (2000).

The next recording session is planned for Friday 3rd July 2020 at 6.30 pm.

You must notify us by email if you would like to take part (oh yeah, and do some homework).

The final edit of the discussion will feature in The Unseen Swerve scheduled to broadcast on Tuesday 7th July 2020 @7 pm on Switch Radio.

Reviews for Silent Alarm by Bloc Party

Energetic and vibrant, it is an enjoyable listen to any fans of guitar based rock. I think that it came at a time where guitar rock was perhaps in its death throes and having one last big resurgence amid contemporaries such as The Libertines, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys etc. As part of that whole movement, they come across to me as the equivalent of what a band like Echobelly were to the whole Britpop thing. They were fine, they sort of did what their contemporaries were doing, but to a less fulfilling extent. They didn't score the big singles nor albums, but they were there at the time, and that's nice for them. There's leaders and there's followers, there are innovators and copiers, and I think Bloc Party fall into the latter of each set of groupings.  

- Matthew

"A new one for me. They had not crossed my path before even though this album is some 15 years old. It is ‘sitting on the fence’ time for me. I don’t dislike it, but there again I find few things that would have me rushing out to add it to my collection. If I was at a festival, standing in a field with a some cloudy cider watching this band for their 30 or 40 minutes, I think I’d quite enjoy that. But listening to the album in isolation I don’t hear any standout tunes and the vocal doesn’t stand out either (things that would possibly have me wanting to explore further). If you listen to BBC 6music during the day, their schedule is full of very similar bands (and that current indie sound) and it is very difficult to differentiate between them all”.
-Marek

The Album Club Remixed #6

The Album Club Remixed is a regular virtual music discussion with recorded contributions and reviews from a growing band of volunteers.

The next album up for discussion is "Silent Alarm" By Bloc Party (2005).

The next recording session is planned for Friday 19th June 2020 at 6.30 pm.

You must notify us by email if you would like to take part (oh yeah, and do some homework).

The final edit of the discussion will feature in The Unseen Swerve scheduled to broadcast on Tuesday 23rd June 2020 @7 pm on Switch Radio.