Description
Canadian quartet BadBadNotGood take on creating the ultimate “late night” selection of tracks from their record collections.
The original trio of Matthew Tavares, Alex Sowinski and Chester Hansen formed while studying music at Toronto’s Humber College (they’ve recently added Leland Whitty to the line-up). A shared appreciation of hip hop and instrumental covers of Gucci Mane and Earl Sweatshirt suggested a worldly outlook and reciprocated love from Tyler The Creator and Ghostface Killah, which whom they made 2015’s Sour Soul. Their last album, the critically-acclaimed IV, turned heads and their collaborators continue to multiply: Snoop Dogg, Kaytranada and Kendrick Lamar among them.
You can even hear little bits of BadBadNotGood through this mix, as though they are transmitting parts of themselves through the music they select. Perhaps the keys on Admas’ hilariously expensive ‘Anchi Bale Game’, maybe, or the arrangements on Delegation’s mighty Britsoul tune ‘Oh Honey’ or the groove from ‘Vida Antiga’, Erasmo Carlos’ Brazilian classic. As Janis almost sang, take another little piece of my art.
This is an international effort: Velly Joonas’ Estonian version of ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’, Kiki Gyan, Admas and Francis Bebey representing Africa (Ghana, Ethiopia and Cameroon respectively), Les Prospection from France, Scots’ Boards Of Canada and fellow Canucks River Tiber and Charlotte Day Wilson.
Finally, there’s the no-small-matter of the Late Night Tales cover version, in which BadBadNotGood take on Andy Shauf’s ‘To You’ is turned into a mournful delight. while the Queen Of Siam herself, Lydia Lunch, delivers a sexual sermon involving only you, her and Jim Beam.
Tracklist:
Side A:
Boards Of Canada – Olson 01:31
Erasmo Carlos – Vida Antiga 03:23
Gene Williams – Don’t Let Your Love Fade Away 02:46
The Chosen Few – People Make The World Go Round 03:18
Esther Phillips – Home Is Where The Hatred Is 03:25
Delegation – Oh Honey 05:59
Side B:
Velly Joonas – Kaes On Aeg 02:52
Stereolab – The Flower Called Nowhere 04:55
Kiki Gyan – Disco Dancer 06:56
Admas – Anchi Bale Game 05:14
Side C:
Francis Bebey – Sanza Nocturne 05:51
Thundercat – For Love I Come 03:35
River Tiber ft Daniel Caesar – West 02:32
Charlotte Day Wilson – Work 03:44
The Beach Boys – Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) 02:58
Donnie & Joe Emerson – Baby 04:10
Side D:
Les Prospection – Lido 03:44
Grady Tate – And I Love Her 04:47
BADBADNOTGOOD – To You (Exclusive Andy Shauf Cover Version) 02:25
Steve Kuhn – The Meaning Of Love 03:00
Lydia Lunch – You, Me and Jim Beam (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece) 04:25
