:Episode One Hundred Ninety-Six: 7.31.2020
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Black Helium | Pink Bolt | The Wholly Other |
| Les Big Byrd | Roofied Angels | Roofied Angels EP |
| El Jefazo | Serpiente | Simbiosis |
| Mercury Boys | Atlas Falling | Return to Cinders |
| Dätcha Mandala | Moha | Hara |
| John Carpenter | Skeleton | Skeleton (Single) |
| John Di Stefano | For The Moment | For The Moment |
| IXNA | Galileo | Knotpop |
| KMRU | Klang | Peel |
| Makaya McCraven | Kings and Queens | Universal Beings E & F Sides |
| Sven Wunder | Red Rose | Doğu Çiçekleri |
| J.H. Guraj | Migration | Introspection / Migration |
| Jack Briece | In Eight | Heterophonious Fool |
| Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel | Primal Drones | Primal Forms |
| Autotelia | Red Bloom | I |
| Jon Hassell | Lunar | Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento, Vol. 2 |
| Ashtray Navigations | The Final Hit | Greatest Imaginary Hits |
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* Not on Spotify:
Nothing this week. Sometimes, they really do have it all.
Description
Opening the show is Black Helium, with some rather heavy (ironic, given that they're named for a lighter-than-air element) psych-metal, followed a little later by a new single by the great John Carpenter (is there a better time to watch his "apocalypse trilogy": The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In The Mouth of Madness?), a song that... has nothing to do with any of his cinematic endeavors, the first such in four years. There's also a bevy of great ambient tunes this episode as well, including the field-recording-augmented drones of Kenya's KMRU, the 4th-Worldian pop-ambient of Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel, the neo-kosmische of Autotelia, and the ultra-lo-fi buzz of Ashtray Navigations (from a retrospective of their twenty-seven year(!) career spanning four discs, each individually curated by a "celebrity" fan of the band, including Henry Rollins(?!))