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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: O.

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Speaker 3: Mother calls me, Yes, this is ah my songs.

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Speaker 4: Use that that is Bret Mackenzie. You recognize the voice

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Speaker 4: a kind of an ecliptic little sound, isn't it. The

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Speaker 4: song is called freak Out City, the album is called

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Speaker 4: freak Out City. Is Stelle Clifford is our music review

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Speaker 4: She never freaks out, but she's with us now morning.

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Speaker 5: If it could happen to you, it could happen to me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It's just it's so k Like I'm already singing.

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Speaker 2: Along to this album and I've only given it a

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Speaker 2: couple of lessensped yesterday. But there's just something about his

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Speaker 2: music that gets under your skin. Yep, And I like

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Speaker 2: that it's kind of got Like that song in particular,

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Speaker 2: has this like disbelieving Wow, can you believe that this

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Speaker 2: can kind.

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Speaker 5: Of happen in the world?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it still has this sort of like humor

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Speaker 2: running underneath it and delivered in that quirky, fun kind

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Speaker 2: of way that I think this is Brett Mackenzie's thing now,

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Speaker 2: isn't it? Like you could imagine it could become a

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Speaker 2: whole show. I think the live version of this would

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Speaker 2: be quite fascinating, and I don't know, I almost expect

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Speaker 2: it to be like a musical show, like a stage show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, No, it does.

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Speaker 5: It does sound like that. Yeah, I don't know if

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Speaker 5: you think this whole album should be a stage show.

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Speaker 2: But there's kind of got that sound behind it, and

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Speaker 2: I think that speaks a lot into how he's done

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Speaker 2: so well at creating a career for himself and that

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Speaker 2: he writes music for film and those kind of productions.

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Speaker 2: And he's also so this album here, he wanted to

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Speaker 2: do it like it was like a seventies live band,

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Speaker 2: So he wanted that kind of sound. And I also

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Speaker 2: really liked that he wanted to pay tribute to his dad.

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Speaker 2: So his dad passed away a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 2: his biggest fan, as you are with you with your children.

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Speaker 2: But he really liked music that you could hear the lyrics,

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Speaker 2: understand the lyrics, and you could sing along. Yeah, And

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Speaker 2: so that's what he's really captured well here. I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of Brett Mackenzie's music is like that. You

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Speaker 2: can pick up on the lyrics, the catchy melodies, and

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Speaker 2: then before you know it. You know the songs and

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Speaker 2: you're you're singing along to them. So I kind of

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Speaker 2: love that he's had that in the back of his

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Speaker 2: mind while creating this and outside of film, which comes

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Speaker 2: with like, we want this song to be this long,

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Speaker 2: it has to have this in it, it has to

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Speaker 2: have this beat.

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Speaker 5: He gets to play a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit more when he does his individual stuff, but still

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Speaker 2: I think with that quirky storytelling, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean it's still very quirky storytelling because he's an incredible

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Speaker 4: Like the thing is where part of the concourse, I

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Speaker 4: feel like people kind of forget just how talented they

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Speaker 4: are as musics. I mean, obvious comedians and all of that,

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Speaker 4: but like Britt mackenzie has real musical chops.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, this is a This is a guy who grew

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Speaker 2: up as a kid being He grew up in the

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Speaker 2: National Youth Orchestra right like so, and he and he

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Speaker 2: played didn't he play Obo or something something obscure and

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Speaker 2: jazz musician background, which means they they are able to jam,

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Speaker 2: they're able to follow a lead. And he tests his

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Speaker 2: life band with that quite a lot. And he's not

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Speaker 2: afraid to leaven. I wouldn't say the mistakes, but the

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Speaker 2: stuff that kind of naturally happens, he's quite good at

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Speaker 2: capturing that.

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Speaker 5: I think he likes the thrill of that live, crazy

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Speaker 5: setting's going to go.

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Speaker 2: So if you can capture that energy and put it

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Speaker 2: into music, even though there might be some underlying dark humor,

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Speaker 2: there might be some quirky little sound effects that go

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Speaker 2: into the production, there's there's Yeah, there's like a lot

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Speaker 2: of talent that goes mind. I think it also says

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Speaker 2: a lot when you go back and listen to Flight

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Speaker 2: to the Concords how much he must have been quite

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Speaker 2: the driving force behind writing a lot music.

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Speaker 5: The music, yeah, and then the delivery.

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Speaker 2: And performance sort of came from there. This is a

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Speaker 2: guy who's born into music, really, isn't he? A real

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Speaker 2: beautiful song that's on this album. He actually has finally

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Speaker 2: written a song for his wife. I mean, they've only

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Speaker 2: been together for nearly three decades and it's got this

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Speaker 2: real New Orleans jazzy vibe, which I think again plays

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Speaker 2: into that quirky sort of music. When the full band's

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Speaker 2: walking down the street having a festival, it's got that.

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Speaker 2: I think he should pay tribute to her. I don't

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Speaker 2: imagine it's easy to be with someone who's a traveling.

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Speaker 5: Muso so to share his love for her.

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Speaker 2: And oh yeah, I think it's it's a really pretty

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Speaker 2: beautiful song. It's quite simple, I guess in its creation.

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Speaker 2: But some of the best love songs are for sure.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to you don't have to be too

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Speaker 2: tricky about it, right, All I need is that song,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, it gave me. It's got the warm, fuzzy

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Speaker 2: feel and I think actually a lot of this album

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Speaker 2: kind of does it made me feel happy? Like overall

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Speaker 2: this album might be talking about social commentary on what's

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Speaker 2: happening in life, you know, but but.

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Speaker 4: The actual style is so is there anything So there's

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Speaker 4: nothing that's too sort of maudlin or you know, there's

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Speaker 4: no ballady kind of things. All, it's all everything's quite right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Again, he's someone who's he's quite open about his fandom

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Speaker 2: for Paul McCartney, and so it has that songwriting kind

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Speaker 2: of style. He could just easily play this music guy

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Speaker 2: and his guitar, or then he can add that full band,

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Speaker 2: full production, and there's there's more of that. There's more

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Speaker 2: of the orchestral full band stuff. Maybe some of the

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Speaker 2: songs would be just as beautiful and nice if he

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Speaker 2: did scale it back a little bit, which he does

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Speaker 2: a little bit on the All I Need Is Love song,

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Speaker 2: but predominantly it's got that full band kind of big

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Speaker 2: brightness and backing about it. And and that's okay though,

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Speaker 2: Like if that's where he wants to play and he

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Speaker 2: wants to be surrounded by.

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Speaker 5: Lots of people, then so bad.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be touring this album in the States

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Speaker 2: in October and teasing that he might be back to

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Speaker 2: tour this album late.

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Speaker 5: Summer for us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be great.

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Speaker 2: You'll have the album well under your skin by the time,

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Speaker 2: you know, he gets to And if you just want

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Speaker 2: some quirky energy, there's a bit of somber jazz. He's

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Speaker 2: been influenced by a lot of styles, but for the

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Speaker 2: most part as a pretty upbeat take. Let's not get

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Speaker 2: too low and gloom on what's happening, you know, like

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Speaker 2: it's happening, but let's have a positive outlook on on

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Speaker 2: what that means.

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Speaker 4: So very good, Okay, cool, So what did you give it?

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Speaker 2: It's an am for me, okay, Fresten, Yeah, I will

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Speaker 2: very much time.

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Speaker 4: So the freak out City is the album from Britt McKenzie.

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Speaker 4: Will play but more in a few minutes. Thank you

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Speaker 4: so much. A Stelle Astelle Clifford is our music reviewer.

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