With her heavenly APE debut album WARM ROBOT only a mere few weeks away, New Mexico’s neutron nymphet Jen Olive presents part 2 of the album podcast. Jen walks you warmly through such beautiful songs as the seashore seance ALL MY HEADS MEET, the lucid luminescence of WAFFLESONS DREAM and the sugar sad swing of HERE I GO.

This is one truly beautiful record that we at APE are very proud of. Captain Andy P himself mixed the music and even contributed percussion and little keyboard dabs in places. WARM ROBOT is released on March 28th but we will be making it available to pre-order before then, with the added bonus of a free download version for the early birds. We’ll update you on it all as soon as we can, in the meantime enjoy part 2 of Jens podcast.

 

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Hello, your dear helmsman Andy Partridge here. I want to pick your brains and I have my hand whittled cocktail stick at the ready. XTC would like to release an APE version of RAG AND BONE BUFFET, hooray! lots of new notes, photos and a sparkling remastering job. Thats all good, but we also think there is a sister volume to be found. Yes, another herd of B sides, extra tracks or odious oddities that found themselves escaped into the wider world and we’d like your help in rounding them up.

The new disc has a working title, BRIC-A-BRAC BREAKFAST, and we already know some of the songs that will be included. Tracks like SPIRAL, SAY IT, WHERE DID THE ORDINARY PEOPLE GO? etc. What we’d like you to do is if you can think of a favourite piece of missing work from XTC {the 12 inch remix of KING FOR A DAY anyone?} then post your suggestions as comments below. What tracks can you think of that may have slipped the net? That aren’t included in RAG AND BONE, or aren’t sitting snug on a regular album somewhere, something you would like brought back from the grave?

Happy tapping, and i’ll be over to look at the results shortly.