Ep. 126 w/. Millie Lovelock (Astro Children // NZ) & Maxine Funke (Feeding Tube/Epic Sweep // NZ)

We air selections from two crucial Dunedin artists. Millie Lovelock performs solo as Repulsive Woman, and with Isaac Hickey as Astro Children. Millie was a recent alumnus of the Red Bull Music Academy in Berlin, and has just completed a tour of Europe and the UK. She has kindly put together an amazing mixtape of songs that have accompanied her on tour, while sitting in a cafe in Oxford. Following that, we hear from Maxine Funke. Maxine broke the silence this year with the Eternity and Lemonade 7"s, and an album called Home Fi. She also has a new album, Silk, due in mid-December on Feeding Tube. These new releases are beautifully skeletal yet transcendent, in the vein of her earlier releases Felt and Lace. Maxine compiled some of her home-listening for us, and we're so grateful to share it with you. *Millie Lovelock* The White Stripes - Wasting My Time [XL] Jam City - City Hummingbird [Love Is Resistance] The Cure - Play For Today [Polydor] Planningtorock - The Breaks [DFA] PJ Harvey - Catherine [Island] Chelsea Jade - Laugh It Off [Self] Sneaks - PBNJ [Merge] Speedy Ortiz - Lucky 88 [Carpark] Anderson .Paak - Am I Wrong [OBE] Radiohead - Nice Dream [Parlophone] Agnes Obel - The Curse [PIAS] The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star [Polydor] *Maxine Funke* St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart [Heavenly] Kate Bush - Mrs Bartolozzi [EMI] Yung Lean - Agony [Year0001] Elizaband - I Did Not Grow Up Straight [Self] Veronica Maggio - Vi Mot Varlden [Universal Music] Buffy Sainte-Marie - Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan [ABC] Judy Collins - Tom Thumbs Blues [Exulta] Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine [Pacific Jazz] Jenny and Jade – Don't Get Up [Self] Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up [Curtom] Lucy Roleff - Two Children [Lost and Lonesome] Gram Parsons - A Song For You [Reprise] The Finks - Thankful [Milk!] Notes from Millie: - selection of tracks I've been listening to since heading out on tour in the EU/UK following RBMA in Berlin - my time in Berlin opened my mind and ears to more electronic music and encouraged me to see the similarities between the music I make and music that might be better suited to dancing. The continuity in the songs I picked out is a visceral sense of corporeality. Each of the artists is pretty introspective, but you can hear they're very conscious of how music passes in and out of them, both emotionally and physically, and for me that's the most important quality an artist can have. - being on tour is also a weird and liminal experience, you move so much and do so much but spend a stupid amount of time incredibly static in between action. Before tour, I spent two weeks doing nothing but making music-i didn't really listen to anything- so once we got on the road I wanted to keep my brain moving at the same pace as it had been going in Berlin even though I was out of the studio. I've listened to these artists a lot in transit to do that, each song has such a strong sense of purpose. - NB: Jam City and Planningtorock both gave lectures at RBMA, and Sneaks was a participant. - the passions German film star song is one of my favourite songs, i used to listen to it on a cassette mixtape in my dad's car. spending so much time in the car you have to build little worlds for yourself, and that song is such a complete scene, it used to drive me wild as a kid. Every other song on the playlist I think does a similar thing, you feel the song so deeply it's like you're actually inside it.