This is so damn soothing.
Music
It took a while for Slowdive to get their due, but now I can see their fingerprints on a seemingly infinite amount of bands taking cues from Creation Record’s noisiest, most soaring moments. It’s almost intimidating how many great new bands are emerging that could be classified as “shoegaze” by some measure or another. Fake Palms have a bit of a sinister undercurrent to them, and remind me a lot of the claustrophic psych of Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Definitely worth paying attention to.
There is a lot of good hip hop out there. I didn’t listen to much when I was younger though, so I kind of have no clue about most of it. But I came across this and it’s just great.
Ultimate Painting features members of Manchester-based Mazes and contemporary Slumberland torchbearers Veronica Falls. They put out an extremely underrated self-titled debut last year, and they’re already about to follow it up with Green Lanes. “Sanctioned Blues” finds the duo back in their VUish wheelhouse, with just enough bluesy twang to needle itself into your brain and stay there all day.
I missed that this video happened. Real Life Buildings features Matt Van Asselt from Mt. Home Arts with members of Told Slant and Eskimeaux. All of which I like. I also liked his stuff with The Act of Estimating as Worthless. The video, for what it’s worth, was animated by Anne Shepperson, also of Mt. Home Arts. I really like pretty much everything they do. I love the home grown element of art in every aspect of music and book making that they do.
Things got pretty heady on my SOTD yesterday, so let’s go with the polar opposite for today. 100% pop from Skylar Spence, nee St. Pepsi, with the perfect video accompaniment.
Two piece from Philadelphia. This is all i’ve heard from them but I like this in any case.
Got a half hour to kill? Morphing Turkish psych from Insanlar, who I know next to nothing about. So, uh, sorry about that, but enjoy the song!
This is a bit magik markers esque. Really good in other words.
Radio shower commences in 3 hours. 9pm to midnight. 88.3FM in Pittsburgh. WRCT.org to stream.
Here is some live cardiel to get you pumped up! Every Sunday we’ll be posting live songs/shows to warm everyone up for the radio.