Mambo On That Jukebox Explosion!!! (2020)

You don’t make a 22-track album without experiencing doubts—even when you’re Britain’s biggest band. “We kept laughing to ourselves,” The 1975’s Matty Healy tells Apple Music. “‘Can we really put out a record like this? Can we really be where we are?’ The success of [2018 album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships] didn’t change us, but it certainly made us think, ‘God, this is a lot of responsibility. To be compared to Radiohead. F**king hell. What are we going to do?’”They way they saw it, there were two options. The first was to play to expectation and try to become even bigger. The second—the path they chose—was to return to when they were smallest.

Brothers Brad and Curtis Rempel of High Valley have long shared stories of a family-filled childhood in rural La Crete, Alberta in Canada, so it’s no surprise that they’re proud to say they “Grew Up On That.” Their brand new single, written by the duo’s Brad Rempel, Ben Stennis and Jaron Boyer, cites details of small town living specific to their lives but familiar to any country fan.
“We have spent a lot of time in the past couple of years explaining what we grew up without, having spent our childhoods living in a pretty remote area,” Brad said. “This time around we wanted to let people know more of our story and exactly what we did have – what made us who we are – and what we grew up on.”
“I love the way we recorded these,” added Curtis. “Being able to record this project on our own property was amazing. It encapsulates who we are as a band and brings us back to our roots.”

Recorded for a small French label soon after Simone relocated to Paris, Fodder On My Wings found the artist in a difficult period in her life. Not only was Simone feeling isolated in a new country, but her mental illness was worsening and her family life was fractured. However, she channelled her despair into writing some of her most powerful material, including ‘I Was Just A Stupid Dog To Them’ and the near-title-track, ‘Fodder In Her Wings’, which Pitchfork included in their roundup of Simone’s most iconic songs.