S6E255 - The Bevis Frond 'Little Eden' with Mick Hans

<p>If you are unfamiliar with British rock band <strong>The Bevis Frond</strong> and its founder, singer/multi-instrumentalist <strong>Nick Saloman</strong>, you have some serious catching up to do. Releasing glorious pop/punk/psyche records at a feverish pace since the late 80s, they could quite possibly be England's best kept indie-rock secret. OG fan and Chicago resident <strong>Mick Hans</strong> brings us their latest release, 2021's '<strong>Little Eden</strong>', a psychedelically-hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure pop melodies and beautifully-observed English melancholy. </p> <p>Songs featured in this episode: <em>He'd Be A Diamond</em> - Juliana Hatfield Three/Teenage Fanclub/Mary Lou Lord; <em>Born In Chicago</em> - Pixies; <em>Splendid Isolation</em> - The Bevis Frond; <em>Positive Vibrations</em> - The Soft Boys; <em>He'd Be A Diamond</em> - Teenage Fanclub; <em>Raisans</em> - Dinosaur Jr; <em>Fortune Teller</em> - Sugar; <em>Everyone Rise, You Owe Me, They Will Return, Find The Mole</em> - The Bevis Frond; <em>The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle</em> - The Sex Pistols w/Edward Tudor-Pole; <em>Do Without Me, The Man In The Garden</em> - The Bevis Frond; <em>Autumn Almanac</em> - The Kinks; <em>As I Lay Down To Die, Cherry Gardens, There's Always Love, Little Eden, Here Come The Flies</em> - The Bevis Frond; <em>Youth Of America</em> - The Wipers; <em>Pasted All Over</em> - The Bevis Frond; <em>Lights Are Changing</em> - Mary Lou Lord; <em>My Own Hollywood, Dreams Of Flying</em> - The Bevis Frond</p>