Today's Dose comes from Spoon.. and how could I not play a song called "On the Radio"?
Here's info from the Beggars group:
Lucifer on the Moon is the anti-gravity companion to Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa. A top-to-bottom rework of the Austin band's tenth album, it was created by On-U Sound founder and UK dub icon, Adrian Sherwood. The album will be released November 4th on LP and digital.
You’ve said the song “On the Radio” is about how when you were a kid, you felt like the voices on the radio were talking to you. Do you think we’ve lost some of the magic of music curation with streaming, where everything feels so algorithmic?
[Britt Daniel] Maybe a little bit, yeah. The song is about how radio made me feel good. When I was lonely, it comforted me a bit and gave me evidence that there was an outside world where people were interacting and life was still happening out there. There was also a sense of community, knowing that that song is coming on in everybody’s car — or clock radio — right now. There was a shared experience, and I used to talk to my friends about what happened on the radio as a kid.
I don’t know if you get that from streaming, when there’s not a person on the other end doing something consciously. Not to knock streaming — there’s good things about it. The thing I like about the digital world is I can be at a bar and Shazam a song and when I come home, that song is on my computer. That’s kind of amazing. - Variety