Mixtape 148 • Strange To Explain
If I could use synesthesia to describe Woods’ music, I would say it sounds like sparkling pastel day-go colors.
If I could use synesthesia to describe Woods’ music, I would say it sounds like sparkling pastel day-go colors.
The mysterious Orville Peck is a modern cowboy marvel, a rare and legendary masked man with a dusty guitar and a lonesome coyote howl.
Matt Sharp and The Rentals have always attracted a stellar cast of musicians to help them assemble their popsong symphonies.
Understated but solid set of songs with a strong female vocal presence. There’s a loving interlocking of guitar, bass, and keyboard lines that gives the music a rich and interesting texture.
Even obscurists get to form supergroups, and Filthy Friends is one of the top entries in that category, with membership from Sleater-Kinney, the Young Fresh Fellows, the Fastbacks, and more.
Like getting picked up by the scruff of your neck and smashed into a wall of orange Jello, Swarming Branch gets your attention with the warping and weaving of "Zsazsur's Real Estate Song".
Did Jeff Rosenstock manage to find an unrecorded Ramones song? "Beating My Head Against A Wall" sure sounds like it, and that is 1,000% a compliment.
This song by La Louma sure is a catchy anthem for us skeptics and cynics.
Cleary, this is something that needs a song to explain, and Mo Kenney is up to the task.