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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: This is Greki's Unicorn. It's by Beirute. The new album

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Speaker 2: is a study of losses and a stell Cliffe has

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Speaker 2: been listening hi Estelle.

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Speaker 3: Well, one out of the bag.

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Speaker 2: For you, right, I'm just worried that it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a really bad album and Anyone's gonna go, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's so Morland's so boring.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So that actually get akas Unicorn is one of

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Speaker 4: my favorite. It starts with that synth rhythm and it

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Speaker 4: sets it up and it's kind.

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Speaker 3: Of off key a little bit. Yeah, you're like, what

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Speaker 3: am I falling into?

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Speaker 4: I actually to this entire album, not really having too

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Speaker 4: much backgrounds on beow Route, not knowing the style, not

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Speaker 4: knowing that it was actually composed for a circus, and

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Speaker 4: I was on a trip thinking what.

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Speaker 3: What is happening here?

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Speaker 4: The thing to know about them is that they already

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Speaker 4: had the style of music minus then being asked to

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Speaker 4: write for a circus. So I love that their style

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Speaker 4: has kind of grown and developed into something where someone's like,

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Speaker 4: we can make a whole a whole show.

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Speaker 3: With this kind of soundtrack, Like that's amazing, isn't it

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Speaker 3: to love old music so much that you also then find.

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Speaker 4: Because there's sort of this American pop thing behind it too,

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Speaker 4: like that old school like you'd expect Elvis to kind

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Speaker 4: of be there or something like this all American kind

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Speaker 4: of sound to it. You know, there's that quality behind it,

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Speaker 4: and I guess that's once they start bringing in synth

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Speaker 4: and keyboard and those kind of sounds. But then suddenly

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Speaker 4: you're like, what is there and you're like, it's a melodica. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, like the mouth, you know, organ thing and

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Speaker 4: you're like that's bizarre.

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Speaker 3: Or then there'll be a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Like squeeze box accordions and that kind of thing that

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Speaker 2: get chucked down that's still very yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: Where actually usually it sits on its own in some

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Speaker 4: sort of folky band, but here it's actually getting used

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Speaker 4: and kind of like I mean, most of their albums

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Speaker 4: they've had sort of modern releases of what they're releasing.

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Speaker 3: And I think that there's.

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Speaker 4: Kind of like these weird like like that one, where

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Speaker 4: it's got that weird happiness about it, but it's also

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Speaker 4: a bit off key because it's in that minor tone,

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Speaker 4: and you're like, this is there's so many layers and so.

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Speaker 3: Much I thank you, hey Jack, thanks for finding me.

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Speaker 4: You know me, I tell you what finger on the

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Speaker 4: pulse when it comes to this stuff.

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Speaker 3: This is really clever. I I love.

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Speaker 4: All these instruments that I would not have thought to

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Speaker 4: put in sort of a slight modern music kind of context. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and there's and I imagine that their live shows would

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Speaker 4: be absolutely insane because sometimes they could be full orchestral

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Speaker 4: or just really weird instruments on stage where you get

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Speaker 4: this real schooling of what the heck is going on here?

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Speaker 4: And also that he so Zach Condon is the guy.

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Speaker 4: It actually started as a solo project for him, and

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Speaker 4: I dare say he's one of those people who can

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Speaker 4: pick up any form of instrument and he'll find his

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Speaker 4: way around it. So really clever, really embracing that choir

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Speaker 4: in our songs sort of music and then finding this

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Speaker 4: modern kind of twist on it.

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Speaker 3: His version for taking this on.

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Speaker 4: Board with the Circus because it's about loss, all versions

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Speaker 4: of loss. But he was like, imagine if there was

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Speaker 4: a man who was so obsessed with the things we

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Speaker 4: lost on earth that he collected them and put them

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Speaker 4: on the moon. So that's kind of a deep layer

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Speaker 4: of this album that all our losses are getting taken

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Speaker 4: by someone and he's so fixated on them he's putting

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Speaker 4: them somewhere else, which I guess then buys into the

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Speaker 4: performance of the circus kind of stuff. So a lot

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Speaker 4: of the songs are around the solar system and names

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Speaker 4: that kind of go along with that, which then ties

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Speaker 4: into I guess eventually what the circus. I'm fascinated to

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Speaker 4: see what the circus would be. If we could see

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Speaker 4: that as well, that would be wonderful. If anyone wants

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Speaker 4: to seed us to the circus, you know, then that

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Speaker 4: would be would be I'd give you more points for

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Speaker 4: your album.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 4: It is just about it either like it's so melodic

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Speaker 4: and so ah yeah, just the instruments and voices that come.

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Speaker 3: It's not it's not a forced sound. It's like this

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Speaker 3: real unusual.

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Speaker 4: Blending of things and it's quite acrobatic, and it's in

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Speaker 4: its style, which kind of again suits I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: this is amazing that he's finally been brought in to

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Speaker 4: make a soundtrack to something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird, it's weird, but.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, is it telling about you that you

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Speaker 4: are the one that's then found us this music?

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Speaker 2: It probably is you want to run away with.

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Speaker 4: A circus check like it's I would run away with

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Speaker 4: the circus with this It's it's haunting and beautiful.

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Speaker 3: He also loves ukulele.

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Speaker 4: So there's some pacifica sort of sounds that come in

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Speaker 4: through some of the music too, So you're kind.

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Speaker 3: Of going to get a lot. There's a lot to.

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Speaker 4: Unpack and yeah, yeah, and it might mean you might

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Speaker 4: go backwards too in some of their catalog, which is

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Speaker 4: great keeping in mind that some of the earlier stuff

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Speaker 4: didn't have that sort of American pop synth based to it, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but still had a lot of this world folk music

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Speaker 4: thing going on too. So yeah, God, he's really embraced

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Speaker 4: all of all what he could do. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 2: I'm so pleased. I'm so this is the one time

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Speaker 2: in my life that I could feel like I can

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Speaker 2: can contribute to introducing you to something.

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Speaker 3: You know, Look, you gave me this moment. Yeah, now

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Speaker 3: I kind of know where.

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Speaker 4: You've been at you like, if you're starting to pick

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Speaker 4: up the flugelhorn or something different, you just please can

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Speaker 4: you we will like to know your progression with any

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Speaker 4: of these unusual instruments.

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Speaker 2: So what did you give it? A Study of Losses

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Speaker 2: by Beute.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm giving an eight out of ten, but I

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Speaker 4: think if it was pitched with the circus, I.

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Speaker 3: Might give it a ten out of ten. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: I saw the visual too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so good. All right, we'll have a bit

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Speaker 2: more of a few minutes. Hey, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Good on you for digging it out as well.

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Speaker 3: Love it.

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Speaker 2: Astell the Stelle Clifford is a music reviewer. There A

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Speaker 2: Study of Losses is Beroots new album.

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