Five Songs, 4/9/2021
Monobody, "Country Doctor" Monobody is one of those bands that has a real mismatch of names. For whatever reason, I don't think this should be a math-rock/post-rock kind of band. "Monobody" seems like it should really be a...
Monobody, "Country Doctor" Monobody is one of those bands that has a real mismatch of names. For whatever reason, I don't think this should be a math-rock/post-rock kind of band. "Monobody" seems like it should really be a...
Jungle Fire, "La Kossa" Jungle Fire, out of LA, play Afro beat and funk, clearly heavily inspired by the usual folks like Fela Kuti and James Brown. Nothing wrong with that! Anyway, this is from their 2017 album on Colemine records, and I...
Pyrrhon, "The Invisible Hand Holds A Whip" Every three years, discordant death metal masters Pyrrhon fire off a new album, and every three years, it whips. I first encountered them with their second record, The Mother of Virtues, and have eagerly followed them...
Green Day, "Basket Case" I know they became clownish and bad, and that continuing to like them is evidence of creeping Boomerism, but I don't care, this album rules and this song rules. Yves Tumor, "Romanticist" I had my...
clipping., "Nothing Is Safe" There was probably a time in my life when I would have regarded clipping. askance. I've long been OK with noise in my music, having picked up an affection for industrial as a teenager that continued forward...