Stereo Embers The Podcast: Alison Moyet and Cloud Castle Lake’s Daniel McAuley

“Alison Moyet Is Middle Aged Creative Woman”

And she wants you to know it. Alex sits down with the legendary Alison Moyet who talks to him about getting older in an industry that covets youth and beauty. “I don’t want to pretend I’m anything but middle aged,” she says. “I hate to see women being de-valued when they move beyond being shag-worthy.” It’s an empowering conversation that encompasses Alison’s last two releases—2013’s The Minutes and 2017’s Other—and how it gets easier to say no as we get older.

“Daniel McAuley Never Knew He Could Sing”

But boy, can he! The Dublin-based band Cloud Castle Lake have in their frontman Daniel McAuley a voice that falls somewhere between Thom Yorke and Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but it also soars mightily in its own unique way. The funny thing is, McAuley never knew he could sing and actually found out about it by accident. He talks to Alex about discovering his hidden superpower and learning how to hone it.