Flowered Up - Weatherall’s Weekender: Audrey is a Little Bit Partial/Audrey is a Little Bit More PartialWeekender was always a mass of contradictions. Both derisory commentary on part time party animals and shout along anthem adopted for committed fans and casual listeners alike, it was equal parts acid house and progressive rock. Lyrically, it was far more free form street poetry than pop song, a snarl from the sidelines. And, ultimately, it was both Flowered Ups towering zenith and their troubled swan song. Now nearly three decades on, its easy to see

a riff or a beat and see what happens

and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe

full of subtle introspection - an elliptical document of Courtney‰۪s transition into family life and fatherhood

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This version of My Back Wages as issued by Captured Tracks

Hers was pop music that took the weight of chanson on its shoulders

alluding to it

building shrines to light

I booked studio time with a very talented fellow named Jeremy Harris and we worked together out of a studio in the Dogpatch district of SF (owned and run by Paul from the UK band The Bees (or in US

captures the mundaneness and yearning that isolation creates

Perception is under duress

Polly Maberly