I’ve seen denim button-up skirts and cork wedges filling the racks. Is there any new music that follows this 70s style? I want to dive in.
Holy moly, are Farrah flicks back, too? Cortinas and driving coats, Stretch Armstrongs? Chopper bikes, acrylic tank-tops… and that powdered orange drink (was it Bird’s Apeel?). The Doctor loved the 70s. Is everybody invited to dive into this retro trend? Tonging and macrame, here we come! Only it’ll look better on Alexa Chung, as per usual.
Even so, mere mortals can dig the musical revival. Let’s take a stack of new releases and look for the 70s influence. New on my deck is the psychedelic Melbourne outfit King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: check out their new single, The River, in 5/4 time signature (just like my favourite, Take Five, by Dave Brubeck).
If long-haired lovers’ rock is not your style, then take the rootsier option with the melody-heavy, ramshackle approach of Smokey Angle Shades, whose album Shades of Joy, released on Impossible Ark, is a delight: watch the YouTube video of their cover of OV Wright’s Everybody Knows, which perfectly demonstrates how to sport this season’s headdress. And if you feel like dancing in your flares, then play Sri Lankan Bhi Bhiman’s Moving To Brussels and strut to this huge, organ-led, backing-vocal-heavy gem.
Now, for those window-down, arm-out country drives, there’s the Canadian piano-playing crooner Tobias Jesso Jr – start with his Crocodile Tears. And to end? Take the oh-so-70s country sound of Barna Howard’s Indiana Rose: ideal for that double-denim Midnight Cowboy appeal. Now, gimme those metal skates: I’m off to play with my Eagle Eye Action Man.
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