“My first experience with records was rather schizophrenic. The music I first remember hearing that actually stayed with me was the Sound of Music soundtrack and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. You couldn’t get two more diametrically opposed albums if you tried.”
“I remember sneaking into my older brother’s room while he was out and playing Dark Side of the Moon (he had his own record player) and gazing in wonder at the mysterious cover art and the pyramid poster on the wall. The music had the same effect on me: mysterious, strange, compelling.
And yet an other day my mother could put the Sound of Music or The Best of Abba or Glen Campbell on the turntable and I’d be equally as enthralled and transported to another place.
My music tastes have remained split down the middle ever since. It might explain why I used to create mix tapes called “Husker Du vs Eno and Classical vs Noise Bomb.” I do the same thing now in Spotify using my old cassette covers as playlist images.
It’s also why I play in and write songs for a downtempo ambient band like All India Radio, yet also play in a fast noisy indie rock band like Pray TV.
I’m split. I like it all.”
—Martin Kennedy
All India Radio’s new album The Slow Light is in stores now via Minty Fresh. Enter to win the vinyl version of the release by citing in the comments below an example of your own paradoxical musical tastes via your personal record collection. We’ll choose one quixotic winner with a North American mailing address a week from today, June 22, 2016.
