Suffering Jukebox

This morning's episode features an interview with experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi. Cooked is Oren's latest record and it will be released this coming Friday, 25th September, via Drag City Records. Find out more about Oren Ambarchi (and purchase his music) here: https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/music

This week's show also features a short catch-up with Kade and Ben from local band Valve, as they prepare to release their debut album on Friday 25th September. The album is titled, Last Hands Of Heaven And Angels and I have the privilege of premiering two interconnected songs from the record, How To Push It Down Into Your Hollow Legs and Last Hands Of Heaven And Angels. 

Nick's Pick of the Week is Curbside Lambsear's Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands, you can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here: https://curbsidelambsear.bandcamp.com/ and my review can be read below.

Curbside Lambsear: Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands (Scenic Route)

Released September 11th 2026

Curbside Lambsear are a London-based two-piece featuring Magdalena McLean from Caroline and Annabelle Mödlinger from The Umlauts. Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands is their striking debut for Scenic Route, a stunning EP that contains catchy hooks and laconic lyricism alongside noise and drones. The EP may have appeared out of nowhere, but the songwriting ability and knack for experimentation belies a pair of songwriters who are well-versed at their craft.

Ironically, both McLean and Mödlinger are from Austria, however, they only connected after each had established themself in the English capital as members of the city’s thriving experimental music scene. Curbside Lambsear was born from a desire to do something simpler than their respective projects (Caroline contains eight members, whilst The Umlauts have core of four that expands to nine for live shows) and a desire to learn something new. Mödlinger had this to say in a recent article on The Quietus, “The first session we spent together was just an hour of figuring out where everything needed to be plugged into… this project is the first time I’ve done this, so the run-up has just been me teaching myself everything.”

Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands contains five tracks, all exceeding five minutes in length, making it a relatively long EP, and (at thirty minutes in length) longer than some band’s albums. No Ordinary Word opens the record, with a dubby backbeat, layers of feedback and noise and spoken word vocals. The unpronounceable Jjochstubn is a slow burn of static, whilst the (relatively) poppy Man The Door provides a breezy mid-point break. Avril, the EP’s high-point, has a maximalist, shoegazy energy, before Uneasy winds things down with its laid back, broken-synth tones.

Even when one considers Mclean and Mödlinger’s musical pedigree, Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands is still an astonishing debut and a release that manages to sound equally fresh and accomplished. The EP’s mish mash of styles and influences results in a record of continuous surprises and a listening experience that few could consider boring. It really is a remarkable release and one can’t help but wonder what this dynamic duo will produce next.

Nick Stephan