Revenge

Revenge, “14K”

Revenge is Peter Hook’s (Joy Division, New Order) band after leaving the latter of those bands. They put out one record and a smattering of singles, one of which gives us this song. And, look - Revenge wasn’t very interesting. It was just kind of there. If you’re a big New Order fan, as I was when this stuff was coming out, you might trick yourself into getting excited for it. But don’t fall in that trap!

ZGTO, “Remedy”

I don’t remember getting this, but I did pick it up on Bandcamp. It’s apparently a collaboration between electronic musician Shigeto and a rapper named ZelooperZ, neither of whom I’m familiar with. Probably bought this from a year-end roundup and didn’t give it a proper listen. Pretty good, though!

Hockey Night, “Greet the Dawn”

I long ago ran out of ways to say “this band sounds like Pavement” in a clever way, so: this band sounds a shitload like Pavement. Diet Pavement.