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This week's show also features an interview with Cathy Lucas & Susumu Mukai from Vanishing Twin. Archives, Vanishing Twin's latest record, was released on October 2nd through Fire Records. Find out more about Vanishing Twin (and purchase their music) here: https://vanishingtwinmusic.bandcamp.com/music

Nick's Pick of the Week is Cameron Winter's Live At Carnegie Hall, you can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here: https://cameronwinter.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-carnegie-hall and my review can be read below.

Cameron Winter: Live At Carnegie Hall (Partisan/PIAS)

Released 9th October 2026

On Live At Carnegie Hall Cameron Winter plays the piano like a youthful Tom Waits and delivers lines as pensive and esoteric as a young Bob Dylan. As hyperbolic as this may sound, it’s true. Winter is not only a remarkable musician but a stellar wordsmith and —whilst personally I am still yet to see what is so special about Geese’s Getting Killed— I’ll be damned if this isn’t one of the most compelling releases of the year.

Recorded in December 2025 at the historic Carnegie Hall and to a sold out audience of approximately 3000. Live At Carnegie Hall contains songs from Winter’s solo record, Heavy Metal, plus three new songs: It All Fell Over, Emperor XIII In Shades and If You Turn Back Now.

Each of these new songs provides a hint as to where Winter’s craft may shift to next, whilst the previously released songs shine in their brazen bareness. It is hard not to be impressed (and puzzled) by lines such as, “Like Hinkley’s son / I was born to dance with a candy gun / Towards the president’s ass,” from The Rolling Stones, or moved by “I found a keepsake of you / By the window of the kitchen / Take it with you when you leave,” from Take It With You.

Live At Carnegie Hall is a simple, austere record that leaves nowhere for Winter to hide. Here, he (and his songs) are almost naked, stripped back to their skeletons and showing little but their purest of essences: all I can really say is this, I finally get it now.

Nick Stephan