Summer music: Cassandra Jenkins and a new documentary about Blur

夏季音乐:卡桑德拉·詹金斯和一部关于 Blur 的新纪录片

Monocle on Culture

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2024-07-16

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New York-based artist and musician Cassandra Jenkins discusses her new album, ‘My Light, My Destroyer’. The spellbinding new record is a tangle of cranked guitars, close-mic confessionals and wonderfully melodic songwriting. Plus: we celebrate ‘To the End’, a new documentary about Blur, with the film’s director, Toby L. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.

  • I'm Robert Bound.

  • Today we're picking a couple of winners from the wide and welcoming sea of summer music to sift through all the seasons, albums, songs, festivals and documentaries.

  • Well, we would have driven ourselves half mad.

  • So instead we pluck the new album from an artist we've admired from afar for a while, New York's Cassandra Jenkins.

  • And to try to to kill a couple of birds with one well aimed, skimmed stone on the summer surf.

  • We're also going to celebrate a warm and wonderful music documentary about Blur, those scamps that became legends, that became elder statesmen of world pop.

  • We'll be speaking to Toby L, the film's director, on how to tease the best from.

  • Well, the best.

  • That is all coming up right here on Monocle on Culture.

  • First we're going to explore the spellbinding new album from Cassandra Jenkins.

  • Titled My Light, My Destroyer.

  • It's a record of mystic folkways, cranked guitars, close mic confessionals, synth wreath, tomb raiding, at least hourly and wonderfully melodic singer songwriting.

  • Cassandra Jenkins is a native New Yorker who seems to be taking us for a walk around neighbourhoods real and imagined, past and present, fantastical and ordinary.

  • And every now and again turning to us and nodding us on with almost unreadable encouragement.

  • Worn by the glow of the sign from a massage parlour somewhere in New York City, we waft through the streets and parks.

  • This is her third album proper after the much admired an overview on phenomenal nature.

  • A move that record's hazy Jane Jazz suite into something unfamiliar but bewitching enough to make you want to solve it.

  • Here is Cassandra Jenkins on the making of My Light, My Destroyer.

  • Outside my window I saw two doves wrapped up in filthy.