:Episode One Hundred Sixty-Six: 12.6.2019
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Los Tabanos Experience | Sacrificio por Fuego | Rise of the Melted Eagle |
| Holy Serpent | For No One | Endless |
| 10 000 Russos | Runnin' Escapin' | Kompromat |
| Routine Death | Spies | 2 Weeks to 4 Months |
| Kill Your Boyfriend | Elizabeth | Elizabeth (Single) |
| Skull Cult | Mutilator | Braindead |
| Weeed | You Are The Sky | You Are The Sky |
| Badge Époque Ensemble | Nature Man and Woman | Nature Man and Woman EP |
| Al Doum & The Faryds | Light Up | Spirit Rejoin |
| Martin Bisi | Let it Fall | Solstice |
| Bifannah | Não acredite | Danças Líquidas |
| Gareth Davis & Scanner | Towards The Door | Footfalls |
| Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri | Rapido De Noir | Villa Wunderbar |
| Shasta Cults | Incline | Shasta Cults |
| Shapednoise | Blasting Super Melt | Aesthesis |
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* Not on Spotify:
Nothing this week. Sometimes, they really do have it all.
Description
[Note: I seldom get sick, but when I do, like right now, I get "don't see death as that unpleasant an alternative" sick, so the capsule is gonna be a bit terse]
Among the highlights of this week's show:
In the opening, rock-oriented set (really there are two rock-oriented sets this week, with the second a bit more nuanced and the first more straight-ahead R-A-W-K-!) we have: Chilean space rock by Los Tabanos Experience (check out the sweet blacklight painting art on that cover); some bludgeoning stoner metal by Holy Serpent; motorik, new-wavey, chug-a-lug by 10 000 Russos; neo-shoegaze by Routine Death; some... I don't even know - industrial-gaze? - by Kill Your Boyfriend; and some very economical (a minute forty - maybe the shortest track I've ever played) psych-punk by Skull Cult.
The middle also-rock-set consists of the proggy psych of Portland's own Weeed; the jazzy funk-rock (or maybe funky jazz-rock?) of Badge Époque Ensemble; Middle-Eastern influenced sounds by Al Doum & the Faryds; some operatic avant-rock by legendary producer (of Sonic Youth, Swans, etc) Martin Bisi; and the vintage-sounding Iberian folk-rock of Bifannah.
The last set includes a rather singular (as I said on the show, it reminds me of a lot of things but no one thing in particular) jazz-influenced, electronic avant-garde piece by Gareth Davis & Scanner; a bit of founding member of CAN Irmin Schmidt's early-80s output, from his recently reissued career-retrospective album Villa Wunderbar; lovely Buchla synth-drone by Shasta Cults; and, finally... well, it's a song called "Blasting Super Melt", you can probably guess what you're going to get (oh, by Shapednoise, by the way).