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Very rarely do the stars align on this podcast. Indeed, given Mark’s absence this week due a scheduling conflict, it’s possible that you could call this another case of the stars failing to align. However, we’re here to disprove that notion entirely because it just so happens that they week we chose to do Sebadoh, Lou Barlow himself just happened to be in town.

Which means that our episode on the band’s sixth album. Harmacy, has now become a two parter where in part one, Chris chats to Lou Barlow about the band’s legacy. He reflects on his favourite Sebadoh records, regales us with a couple of stories about the band from over the years, and then goes fairly deep into the whole Harmacy (and to a latter extent, Bakesale) era.

A thoroughly amiable chap all around, we’re grateful to Lou for taking some time out of his schedule (he had not long arrived in Glasgow and was due to play with Dinosaur Jr that very evening) and for giving us his true opinion on the album. He answered a few questions we had about the album, yet left us with a bunch more, which we’ll dive into in part two.

Next week we’ll chat more fully about the band’s career and of course Harmacy itself.