This week’s PBS Feature Album is Why Is The Colour Of The Sky? from Naarm-based five-piece band, Bananagun.
The album is their second release via Anti Fade Records & Full Time Hobby, alongside live videos filmed at Button Pusher Studios, where the project was recorded. Departing from the ultra-slick bursts of sunshine pop and afrobeat that defined their 2020 debut The True Story of Bananagun, the group return to muddy the waters with a heavy blend of incendiary jazz and freak-beat experimentation. It’s Bananagun alright, but braver, bolder and more mysterious than ever.
A crucial point for the band was to manipulate the social conditions of the performance to nail the vibe during recording. “It was all attitude towards life and esoteric stuff, natural law, how energy transfers, sounds, chemistry between people”, explains Nick Van Bakel, Bananagun’s songwriter/vocalist/guitarist/flautist.
All of the songs on WITCOTS?, including singles 'Gift of the Open Hand', 'Free Energy', and 'With The Night' - which received radio play on BBC Radio 6, KCRW and triple j, and were featured by Clash, Brooklyn Vegan and Rage - were jammed out, written and recorded in batches of two-a-week across the space of a month.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Why Is The Colour Of The Sky?, and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl: simply email your name and membership number to (link sends e-mail) before midnight Sunday November 17. Please note vinyl giveaways must be picked up from the station in Collingwood.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Kee'ahn, Jake Amy, Anthony Liddell - 'Love You More'
La Descarga - 'Cumbia de Corazón'
BADBADNOTGOOD & Tim Bernardes - 'Poeira Cosmica'
Dean Kalaitzidis - 'My Dear'
Bec Sykes - 'Last To Know'
Mogwai - 'Lion Rumpus'
Wu Kush - 'Galactic'
Nils Frahm - 'Spells (Paris)'
Andrea Keller's Transients - 'Flicker #4'
Lena Douglas - 'Evidence of Bravery'
