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Wussy

25-06-2018 11:39 MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Wussy, sir Was, Pop. 1280, Kelela, Milky Wimpshake, Ryley Walker, Jo Passed, Spectres, Lithics, Wand, Angel Olsen, The Heliocentrics, Gwenno Saunders

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Eclectic, atmospheric, and darkly brilliant American indie band led by Chuck Cleaver (ex-Ass Ponys) and Lisa Walker. Wussy are one of the most celebrated independent bands in the American Midwest, a group whose idiosyncratically thoughtful songs and atmospheric, forceful guitar attack have won them a fervent cult following and a growing stack of rave reviews.
Wussy
One Per Customer (Chuck Cleaver) 4:46
Skip (Lisa Walker) 3:52
from What Heaven is Like 2018
...There's always been something out of time about Wussy. Their take on rock and roll harkens back to classic garage, pop, and psychedelic reference points of the past yet they consistently surprise. Like the tchotchkes and artifacts of our recent, schlocky past, Wussy's sound resonates as if from some other world that resonates with optimism for the future. In Wussy's world, time moves recklessly forward like a souped-out jalopy, fuzzy dice bobbing from the rearview mirror the driver is steering by...

Following myriad musical and travel experiences throughout his early life, Joel Wästberg emerged under the pseudonym sir Was with wide-ranging musical tastes. Wästberg grew up in Frillesås on the western coast of Sweden, and he played music from an early age, starting with the saxophone at ten...
sir Was
In the Midst (sir Was) 5:01
Digging a Tunnel (sir Was) 4:01
Bomping (sir Was) 2:25
from Digging a Tunnel 2017
Considering Digging a Tunnel's persistently chilled vibe, it's somewhat surprising to read sir Was (aka Joel Wästberg) describe it as an "existential dread-filled debut." That surprise is validated to a degree by the album's opener, "In the Midst." The Curtis Mayfield sensibility of the snappy percussion and super-smooth bassline are matched by the relaxed flow of Wästberg's rap. His avowal that "If you wanna have it you gotta start searching/If you wanna keep it you gotta start living" has more in common with Wooderson's (played by Matthew McConaughey) Dazed & Confused mantra, "You gotta keep on livin'...L-I-V-I-N," than it does with Camus or Sartre. But it would be foolish to dismiss the Swedish multi-instrumentalist on the basis of one line from a record that is an extremely dense confluence of musical themes and motifs. The album absorbs a myriad of styles and influences that include, but are not limited to, '90s hip-hop beats, psychedelia, and shades of trip-hop, all of which are bathed in light electronic washes...

Noisy, minimalist Brooklyn quartet influenced by post-punk and no wave. Indebted to no wave and post-punk, and named for one of noir novelist Jim Thompson's bleakest tales, Brooklyn's Pop. 1280 was started by Chris Bug and Ivan Lip in 2009.
Pop. 1280
In Silico (Pop. 1280) 7:11
Paradise (Pop. 1280) 3:36
from Paradise 2016
The band Pop. 1280 named themselves after a book by infamous pulp novelist Jim Thompson, in which the dimwitted sheriff of a small Southern town unwittingly discovers his capacity for corruption and bloodshed. While their music suggests they exist in some otherworldly universe rather than the American Southwest, Pop. 1280's third full-length album, 2016's Paradise, sure sounds like the soundtrack to a story full of violence, betrayal, and bad karma...

L.A.-based alternative R&B singer and writer who appeared on tracks by Teengirl Fantasy and Kingdom prior to releasing her 2013 debut mixtape. Kelela synthesizes contemporary R&B and progressive electronic music with an aptitude for prompting club play as much as bedroom listening. The vocalist and songwriter, born Kelela Mizanekristos in Washington, D.C., was raised in suburban Maryland and didn't have aspirations as a singer until she started studying jazz.
Kelela
All the Way Down 4:29
Hallucinogen 2:20
from Hallucinogen 2015
...Her new EP, Hallucinogen, uses the gristle and guts of feeling as a thematic base for exploring new textures in music. Like Cut 4 Me, the sound is like being enveloped in the black-lit silence of the intro to Belly: it’s a sensuous, sensitive, hi-definition approach to R&B. Some of the producers are the same (Kingdom, Nguzunguzu’s MA) and some are new (Arca, Kendrick and Drake collaborator DJ Dahi), but these partnerships hew to what’s now the Kelela template: soulful songs with unpredictable, assaultive drum patterns, whorls of whimsical synthesizer effects, and so much processing on the vocals that it sounds like you’re listening to a transmission from tomorrow. The deconstructed clatter of FKA twigs—who also worked with Arca—might be from another dimension altogether, but Kelela, whose music feels like there is blood flowing through it, looks to a future with a decidedly human shape...

British twee punk band with political underpinnings originally formed in the early '90s by affiliates of the Slampt label. Milky Wimpshake are a lo-fi indie punk threesome from Newcastle originally consisting of Ms. Joey Ramone (drums), Christine (bass/vox), and frontman Pete Dale, whose scene credits include running the Slampt label; FAST Connection fanzine, and the bands Avocado Baby, Pussycat Trash, and Red Monkey.
Milky Wimpshake
You Don't Look Twice (Pete Dale) 1:52
In Spite of These Times... (Close Lobsters) 3:36
La Revolution Politique (Pete Dale) 2:09
from Encore, un Effort! 2015
English twee punk trio Milky Wimpshake began their under-the-radar run in the early '90s, guitarist/vocalist Pete Dale taking time away from his more angry and rough-edged work in Red Monkey to investigate daydreamy sentiments and D.I.Y. takes on sociopolitical protest songs. Working at an extremely relaxed pace, Milky Wimpshake's discography exists in piecemeal compilation appearances, long out of print 7" singles, and a scant five albums stretched out over the course of more than 15 years. Encore, un Effort! materialized in 2015, but the album's 13 tunes would sound at home in almost any phase of their output, still holding the torch for scrappy, simple guitar tunes, fast tempos, and wispy twee vocals. One new addition is vocalist Sophie Evans, who duets with Dale on more than half of the tracks. Evans' melancholic tones are a nice foil for Dale's always charming but often wavering croon...

An accomplished fingerstyle guitarist/songwriter whose music bridges similarities with Tim Buckley's, Sandy Bull's, Davey Graham's and John Martyn's.  Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago whose music and evolution as an artist have proven mercurial. After spending a few years cutting his teeth on the city's indie and experimental music scenes, he began giving solo live performances on acoustic guitar drawing the inevitable comparisons to his peers, from William Tyler and Glenn Jones to British Isles guitarists ranging from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn to Davy Graham and Martin Carthy. For his part, Walker proved delightfully unpredictable.
Ryley Walker
Primrose Green (Ryley Walker) 4:06
Love Can Be Cruel (Ryley Walker) 5:03
Sweet Satisfaction (Ryley Walker) 6:23
from Primrose Green 2015
Guitarist Ryley Walker follows All Kinds of You, his 2014 debut full-length, by delving deeper into some of the abstract jazz and psych-inflected folk-rock that permeated several of its tracks. On Primrose Green -- his debut for Dead Oceans -- he doesn't worry about putting his own signature on his tunes; this record is all about playing music he loves with people he respects. Though these are original songs, their inspirational roots lie in late-'60s and early-'70s sources. He's found a host of willing Chicago collaborators from the worlds of jazz and improv to assist, including cellists Fred Lonberg-Holm and Whitney Johnson, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, drummer Frank Rosaly, keyboardist Ben Boye, upright and electric bassist Anton Hatwich, and electric guitarist Brian Sulpizio...

Dreamy but aggressive guitar-based indie pop from Vancouver, led by guitarist and songwriter Jo Hirabayashi. A band whose music exists somewhere between dream pop, shoegaze, indie rock, and prog, Jo Passed balance languid melodies and blissed-out vocals against guitar figures that are by turns artful and aggressively physical. The Vancouver-based group was formed by guitarist and songwriter Jo Hirabayashi in 2015, originally as a two-man recording project with drummer Mac Lawrie; this edition of the group produced two EPs in 2016. After a sojourn in Montreal, the band expanded to a quartet with the addition of guitarist Bella Bébé and bassist Megan-Magdalena Bourne.
Jo Passed
Look Up 2:52
Pet Crows 3:48
from Up 2016
There’s a quiet isolation that comes at night. Insomnia sets in, feelings of exhaustion intermingle with that tug of restlessness, and you’re torn between two worlds, too familiar with the witching hour. It’s the sort of sleep affliction that’s rife with symbolism for Joseph Hirabayashi, whose bout of sleepless nights followed the gradual disbanding of his Vancouver-based modern psych group Spring. This wasn’t the first time that Hirabayshi had an artistic outfit splinter off, and Spring itself was formed from the pieces of a prior progressive punk band the SSRIs. But this particular fracture was different. Deeper. It put Hirabayashi and a long-time friend and collaborator on hiatus, leaving the star of our show, Joseph, uprooted and at a standstill. His remedy ultimately came in the form of music, and the hair of the dog that bit him—which, in this case, was change...

Hailing from Devon and based in Bristol, U.K., Spectres were a noise rock quartet combining elements of shoegaze, drone, indie rock, and, to some extent, post-punk.  Made up of vocalist/guitarist Joe Hatt, guitarist Adrian Dutt, bassist Darren Frost, and drummer Andy Came, the group's ascent to widespread critical acclaim both on record and on the stage began after they had started to dominate the U.K. gig circuit.
Spectres
The Beginning of an End (Joe Hatt / Spectres) 5:02
Coping Mechanism (Joe Hatt / Spectres) 6:59
from Condition 2017
On their second album, Condition, the Bristol-based Spectres strip their noise rock sound back to the bare wires and torn-up insulation. Their previous album, Dying, had a layered, pummeling wall of guitars that attacked like a swarm of chain saws and songs that ground and charged like Loop at their best. This time out, the band has forsaken niceties like song structure, melody, and walls of sound in favor of elongated, almost formless pieces that sound the way a half-torn-down building looks. The pipes are exposed, the plaster is crumbling, and there are sparks spitting out of the outlets...

Mating Surfaces is the second full length release, and first for Kill Rock Stars, as well as a couple of EPs from Portland, OR band Lithics. The band like to keep a little bit of a mystery to themselves as they have very little online presence outside of some local independent articles, and that carries over to the music as well.
Lithics
Excuse the Generator 2:18
Specs 1:43
Boyce 5:02
from Mating Surfaces 2018
Mating Surfaces is the second full length release, and first for Kill Rock Stars, as well as a couple of EPs from Portland, OR band Lithics. The band like to keep a little bit of a mystery to themselves as they have very little online presence outside of some local independent articles, and that carries over to the music as well. There are many shifts and turns that can happen at the drop of a hat and every once in while vocalist/guitarist Aubrey Hornor’s usually detached vocals are sprinkled with emotions. There are some touches of some classic post-punk influencers like early Fall and Sonic Youth, but more-so in the sense of some fearless and wild abandonment in the name of experimentation...  Mating Surfaces is a record that is filled with tension and walks on the border of full on breakdown that it never really succumbs to until it’s fitting ending.

Los Angeles-based garage psych quartet championed by Ty Segall.  When the Los Angeles group Wand formed in 2013, they played a wickedly spooky brand of psychedelic garage rock tinged with heavy metal. Over the course of three albums recorded in a couple years, the band's leader Cory Hanson wielded full control over their claustrophobic sound. The band's lineup changed along the way and Hanson loosened his grip on their sonic boundaries, allowing the new bandmembers more say in their newly classic rock- and modern pop-influenced approach.
Wand
Perfume 7:29
The Gift 4:05
Pure Romance 3:37
from Perfume 2018
After an album that saw Wand shifting from Cory Hanson's project where he called all the shots to a fully fledged band, consequently losing some of the claustrophobic brilliance of earlier work, the 2018 EP Perfume is another democratic effort that suffers the same fate. While the seven songs included aren't exactly bad, they just lack the attention to detail and spooky outsider psych feel of Wand when it was only Hanson pulling the strings...

St. Louis native whose intimate indie folk bridges classic country crooning and stylized garage rock.  Raised in St. Louis, Missouri and later relocating to Chicago, Illinois, indie folk singer/songwriter Angel Olsen began performing in St. Louis coffee shops in her teenage years, eventually branching out and tapping into a network of like-minded artists.
Angel Olsen
Fly on Your Wall (Angel Olsen) 3:38
Sweet Dreams (Angel Olsen) 3:11
Special (Angel Olsen) 7:21
from Phases 2017
Arriving a year after her Top 50 album My Woman, 2017's Phases compiles rarities spanning Angel Olsen's prior output, including early demos, stand-alone singles, and unreleased material from the My Woman recording sessions. Having made a gradual but marked shift in her sound during that time, it offers tracks representing the sparer, country-inflected lo-fi of her earliest work as well as the full-band retro rock present on My Woman... While likely of interest mostly to dedicated fans due to the eclectic nature of the recordings, it may also pique the curiosity of those less familiar with Olsen's growing, distinctive catalog.

Eclectic U.K.-based ensemble blending influences such as hip-hop, jazz, soundtracks, Ethiopian funk, outré electronics, and more.  Hailing from the United Kingdom, the youth-oriented ensemble the Heliocentrics are hard to pigeonhole, though some have dubbed them a contemporary acid jazz band. Led by drummer Malcolm Catto, the band straddles hip-hop, funk, modern creative jazz, soundtracks, library music, psychedelic electronica, and world musics.
The Heliocentrics
Visions of Himself 1:37
The Pit 5:26
Night and Day 4:02
from From the Deep 2016
On their 2016 release From the Deep, eclectic British rare groove enthusiasts the Heliocentrics take a dip through their archives, unearthing a multitude of tracks cut at their former recording home base, Quatermass Studios. As with most of their recordings, however, these outer-dimensional transmissions could have been beamed from seemingly any time in the past, present, or future. The band's heavy, spacy grooves resist easy categorization, laying down heavy, fluid drum patterns and filling them with cosmic synth squiggles, dubby echo, and the occasional squawking horns...

Once a member of the girl group-loving Pipettes, the Welsh singer/musician embarked on a career as an electronic pop artist after leaving the group.  
Gwenno
Chwyldro (Gwenno Saunders) 5:18
Sisial Y Môr (Gwenno Saunders) 5:41
from Y Dydd Olaf 2015
Gwenno Saunders used to be best known as one of the Pipettes, and if she had vanished after they broke up, she would still have something really cool on her CV. With the release of her first solo album, Y Dydd Olaf, Gwenno (as she's now known) makes a name for herself outside of the group in a big way. The record was inspired by the 1976 sci-fi novel House of the Twilight, is sung entirely in Welsh except for one song sung in Cornish, and hits a sweet spot between the exotic electronic pulse of Broadcast, the candy-sweet pop hooks of Stereolab, and the experimentalism of classic electronic pioneers like Delia Derbyshire...