Whether with his first band Thieves – hugely underrated, I listen to those songs all the time – his Britpop era partnership with Suede exile Bernard Butler – the union of which produced arguably the finest pop song of the mid-1990s - his work with the great Dave Arnold or the English composer Michael Nyman, the voice of David McAlmont has been a fixture of my listening habits for almost three decades. Turns out that’s not stopping anytime soon.
These days David has paired up with one Sean Dickinson – aka HiFi Sean, aka Sean from baggy boys the Soup Dragons – for a new venture, the spoils of which can be heard on February 3rd, 2023, via Plastique Recordings. The record is called Happy Ending, and it’s an eclectic collection of songs that are unmistakably of the modern age – angsty, twitchy, sad, sombre, maybe even a bit paranoid, confused, hopefully, looking for meaning and love. It’s not even 2023 yet and I might have found my favourite record of next year already.
And so on this episode I speak to David about that record, but also his work with all of the aforementioned, and get into the machinations of one of my lifetime’s most unique talents. It’s a good episode this and I’m so grateful to David for taking the time to speak to me.
And while I have you, I wanted to let you know that the new episode of the ever excellent Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Podcast have published their end of year round up episode, which features yours truly, talking about the highs and lows of 2022. There’s three hours and fifty six minutes of chat about music for you over there, and as ever, it’s a genre free zone. I can’t recommend that podcast enough. It’s routinely brilliant. Although I am obliged to say that before you go add that feed to your podcast player, listen to this cracker of an episode, eh?
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Watch this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdVuBDiMp7U
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