Original air date ~ 15th June 2023.

We talk to Melbourne's post-punk renegades RVG about last week's 2SER Feature Album, the brawny "Brain Worms".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-15th-jun-2023/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 15th June was as follows ...

HOLM "Alien Health" (PNKSLM)
YOUTH LAGOON "Little Devil From The Country" (Fat Possum)
feeble little horse "Freak" (Saddle Creek)
MAPS "Psyche Valentine" [Counter Mix] (Mute)
THE SAXOPHONES "Speak For You" (Full Time Hobby)
WATER FROM YOUR EYES "Remember Not My Name" (Matador/Remote Control)
RVG "Giant Snake" (Ivy League)
MAKENESS "Avoidance" (Lost Map)
PROTOMARTYR "For Tomorrow" (Domino)
CAPTAIN PLANET featuring EL DIN "Loose Wires" (Bastard Jazz)
PIP BLOM featuring ALEX KAPRANOS "Is This Love?" (Heavenly/[PIAS])
BEACH FOSSILS "Tough Love" (Bayonet)
RIVAL CONSOLES "Coda" (Erased Tapes)
KING KRULE "Pink Shell" (XL/Remote Control)
BODY TYPE "Dream Girls" (Poison City)
AINSLEY FARRELL "Dark Spell" (www.ainsleyfarrell.bandcamp.com)
SKELETEN "Territory Day" (Astral People/2MR)
SQUID "If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away" (Warp)
CORNELIUS "All Things Must Pass" (Warner)
PJ HARVEY "I Inside The Old I Dying" (Partisan/Liberator)
GRIAN CHATTEN "Last Time Every Time Forever" (Partisan/Liberator)
YOUTH LAGOON "Deep Red Sea" (Fat Possum)
SPARKLEHORSE "Evening Star Supercharger" (Anti-)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://2ser.com/episode-archive-page/?show=static

RVG ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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Original air date ~ 2nd October 2025.

We speak to London's long-serving pop supremos Saint Etienne about what's set to be their final-ever album, the incandescent "International".

Stream the full program https://www.2ser.com/episodes/2025-10-02-20-00

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 2nd October was as follows ...

SPRINTS "Coming Alive" (City Slang)
GEESE "Long Island City Here I Come" (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
WEDNESDAY "Townies" (Dead Oceans)
JESSY LANZA "Slapped By My Life" (Hyperdub)
SYDNEY MINSKY SARGEANT "For Your Hand" (Domino)
bar italia "Rooster" (Matador/Remote Control)
SAINT ETIENNE x CONFIDENCE MAN "Brand New Me" (Heavenly/[PIAS])
BLACK LIPS "Zulu Saints" (Fire)
PVA "Boyface" (It's All For Fun)
CATE LE BON "Mothers Of Riches" (Mexican Summer)
JACK LADDER "Sparrow" (Worse)
AUTOMATIC "Black Box" (Stones Throw)
NINE INCH NAILS "Infiltrator" (Interscope/Walt Disney)
SLOAN "Congratulations" (Yep Roc)
THE BLAMERS "Trash Talkin'" (www.instagram.com/theblamers)
MAXINE GILLON "The Last Time" (www.linktr.ee/maxinegillon)
NATHAN ROCHE "35" (KP&P/Celluloid)
JOHN MAUS "Shout" (Young/Remote Control)
SOULWAX "Gimme A Reason" (DEEWEE/Because Music)
GEESE "Half Real" (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
DRY CLEANING "Hit My Head All Day" (4AD/Remote Control)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://www.2ser.com/programs/static

Saint Etienne ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

Pre-order: https://hdmurder.bandcamp.com/album/initiatrix

Arriving on @planetmurecords with debut 12-tracker 'InitiatriX', Manchester-based producer Ship Sket (@hdmurder) pays homage to UK styles like dubstep, grime, drill and rap, but on an emotional level, it’s about spirituality, fetish, and latent darkness hidden by outward appearances.

“I like happy accidents, messing around and resampling, and kind of seeing how far I can push stuff before it disintegrates in front of me," Ship Sket says. "I’ve heard my tunes on a club system and gone, 'wow that mix sounds bad', but the tune is still popping. My approach is a lot more stylistic than it is technical."

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The second single taken from СОЮЗ (SOYUZ)’s career-defining fourth album KROK comes in the form of ‘Ніці / Nici’. A dreamy, timeless production, it showcases SOYUZ’s composer, Alex Chumak’s brilliance as an arranger. Almost genre-less in quality, the music incorporates elements of AOR, jazz, and folk, but the structure and interplay between the instruments feel unique and are a testament to Chumak’s original thinking as a modern composer.

Broadly speaking, ‘Ніці / Nici’ is a song about the strange nature of dreams. Both wistful and hopeful in the same breath, that ethereal essence carries through as Chumak effortlessly rides the melodies with his signature soft vocal tones. Across this fourth album, Chumak took the step to change the language in which he writes songs from Russian, which is used as lingua franca in many post-Soviet countries, to his native Belarusian. The poetic nature of that switch shines in ‘Ніці / Nici’, with a distinct delicacy and intimacy to Chumak’s delivery. Deft Rhodes playing and a shimmering string arrangement by Chumak, coupled with a laidback beat by Biel Basile and electric bass from Marcelo Cabral, form the breezy basis of the song. Alex’s celestial vocals and the hypnotising, gently phasing guitar melodies loop around the ether, leaning ever further into the dreamstate nature of the song.
 
On first listen, due to its mellow nature, the production on ‘Ніці / Nici’ feels stripped back. But as you delve deeper into the song, its rich and delicate textures appear, and their subtle use transforms what first felt minimal into something understatedly expansive.


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Pre-order: https://lovefoxy.lnk.to/Lord-Juice

LOVEFOXY (@foxy-love-1) returns with a brand new single on @thewarehouseproject Records, 'Lord Juice', taking inspiration from Jersey club music and her long-standing love of Robert Hood, and is the latest taste of her new EP of the same name.

“I had so much fun working on this project," she says. "These tracks are designed to elevate your sass and serve as a mood elevator. Serving endless energy and statement.”

Premiere: LOVEFOXY 'Lord Juice'

Static is a weekly new music program on Sydney public radio station 2SER-FM, which debuted in 1992.
For over 30 years, hosts Berko and Mick have been at the forefront of championing new bands and music trends, with up-to-the-second fresh releases from around the world.
Each week's show blends everything from alternative pop to underground rock, eclectic electronica, post-everything and much more.
Every week Berko speaks in-depth to an artist on the show ... these are those interviews.
Stream full programs at www.2ser.com/static

RVG ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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