One listen to White Lung‘s frenetic Deep Fantasy album, and one might expect singer Mish Way to pick a hardcore or punk album for her Classic Platter. Instead, Way opts for a Fleetwood Mac album. No, we’re not doing the most cliche Classic Platter imaginable and talking about Rumours; instead Way picks the band’s 1979 followup, Tusk, an album that most Fleetwood Mac “fans” probably don’t even remember, even though it came out only two years after that album.
Way: Let’s talk about Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk, because I’m revisiting that album right now and it’s one of my favourites. I’m a huge Stevie Nicks fan, because she is The Queen, but I also love the gossip within that band. The incestuous sex and drugs and drama. Tusk is such a freak of an album. Lindsay Buckingham is a genius.
What do you like about it?
It’s explorative, totally pop. Harmonies. I mean, Fleetwood Mac are an inimitable band. It’s really magical, actually: the quality of their catalogue and the commercial success, as well as their longevity. I think that’s why I love Black Mountain so much; they are like a modern psych-rock version of Fleetwood Mac in many ways. Even the progression of the band, like starting with one lineup (Black Mountain began as Jerk with a Bomb; Fleetwood added Buckingham and Nicks in California later on), then adding this woman on vocals with a killer voice and blowing up. Bands are all chemistry.
Fleetwood Mac‘s Tusk was released in 1979 on Warner Brothers.
White Lung‘s Deep Fantasy is out now on Domino Recording Company.
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