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Guerilla Toss: “Human Girl” Viagra Boys: “Girls & Boys” (***NEW) Squid: “Peel St.” (***NEW) Water From Your Eyes: “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (***NEW) Palberta: “Never To Go” + “Before I Got Here” (***NEW) cumgirl8: “Waffles” Birthday Ass: “Blah” (***NEW) Ohmme: “Selling Candy” Unschooling: “Wet Sidewalks” Deeper: “Run” Yard Act: “Fixer Upper” (***NEW) Silverbacks: “Pink Tide” Pardoner: “Spike” (***NEW) Under 45: “Under 45″ (***NEW) Shame: “Harsh Degrees” (***NEW) Dry Cleaning: “Unsmart Lady” (***NEW) The Lounge Society: “Cain’s Heresy” (***NEW) Pottery: “Welcome’s To Bobby’s Motel” Snapped Ankles: “Rhythm Is Our Business” (***NEW) Conditioner Disco Group: “(Don’t Gotta’) Raise A Family” Lice: “Imposter” (***NEW) Public Opinion: “For Your Consideration” (***NEW) Neurotic Fiction: “Happy Goth” Grim Streaker: “No” Lungbutter: “Honey” Primitive Teeth: “Beyond The Right” CLT DRP: “Where The Boys Are” Alpha Hopper: “Exploding Money” Joy: “Rotting Crown” Child's Pose: “L’il Snitch” (***NEW) BB & The Blips: “Cyborg” Freaking: “Love Seat” (***NEW) Cold Meat: “Industry Sleaze” Scrap Brain: “Half A Pill” Lie': “All Night Long” Silent Era: “Heart Lay Down” Es: “Kingdom Come” Dame: “Mensrea”

It’s our final deluxe Omega Radio summer broadcast and we wouldn’t do it without two hours of our favorite AAA-game post-punk, d.i.y., and city picks ready to go for the win. Tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces; nothing less. One last game and it’s everything in the deck we offer to our listeners.

We return in 24 hours to say goodbye to our summer broadcasting season once and for all as we fill in for Purple Starlight. See you then.

Omega Radio for July 18, 2020; #234.

Guerilla Toss “Plants”

Tropical Fuck Storm “The Happiest Guy Around”

P.E. “Pink Shiver”

Blue Ray “Choir Of Angels”

Deradoorian "Saturnine Night"

Freaking "For"

Diat "Young And Successful"

Sinead O'Brien "Limbo"

Deeper "This Heat"

Parlor Walls "Violets"

Public Practice "Disposable"

Necking "Rover"

Surf Curse "Disco"

Lithics "Specs"

Vision 3D "Faut Le Faire", "Froid (J'ai)"

Dry Cleaning "New Job"

Stuck "Bells"

Shopping "For Your Pleasure"

Sediment Club, The "Hydraulic Saint"

CB Radio Gorgeous "Babylon"

Otoboke Beaver "S'il Vous Plait"

M.A.Z.E. "I Just Pay Taxes"

cumgirl8 "Hourglass"

Hissing Tiles "Rist"

Multicult "Torsion"

Free $$$ "Birthrights"

Mt. Zena "Complacent!"

Special Interest "Young, Gifted, Black, In Leather"

Bikini Body "So Posh"

Ganser "Lucky"

Lungbutter "Henry Darger"

Duckis "Knife"

Primitive Teeth "Plastic"

Trampoline Team "Come Here Alone"

Lie' "Digging In The Dessert"

Cold Meat "Bad Mood"

Scrap Brain "Crybaby"

Control Top "Unapologetic"

Diat “Nausea”

Bikini Body “Hands Off”

True Dreams “Please Sir”

Mauno “Expectations”

Ganser “PSY OPS”

Necking “Big Mouth”

Editrix “All She Wants To Do Is Party”

Duckis “Issue”

Blessed “Rolled In Glass”

Vision 3D “Je Dois Le Faire”

Pom Pom Squad “Lux Lisbon”

Coriky “Clean Kill”

Palm “Heavy Lifting”

Deeper “Message Erased”

Serfs, The “Caged And Bond”

Free $$$ “Etc.”

Knife Wife “Silly Pony”

Lie’ “Drowning in Piss”

Strobobean “Keep It Together”

Black Midi “BmBmBm”

Control Top “Prism”

Spirits Having Fun “Destiny”

Essi “Fly By”

Ing “Dust”

Stuck “Era”

Omni “Underage”

Dead Finks “Bitter Pill”

M.A.Z.E. “Spread The Germicide” (re-recording)

P.E. “Compromised”

Not For You “Hiding”

Uranium Club “Two Things At Once Pt. 1″

Sinead O’Brien “A Thing You Called Joy”

Hash Redactor “Fish”

Shopping “All Or Nothing”

Lungbutter “Solar”

Skux “Kudis”

Es “Hidden Track”

We return with more new, recent, and current music for everyone. Tonight, Omega Radio says hello again to the post-punk / d.i.y. scene with two hours showcasing our favorite discoveries and much more.

New sounds from Bikini Body, Lié, Dead Finks, P.E., and Es.

Recent sounds from True Dreams, Mauno, Necking, Editrix, Duckis, Blessed, Vision 3D, Coriky, The Serfs, Free $$$, Knife Wife, Strobobean, Black Midi, Control Top, Spirits Having Fun, Essi, Omni, Not For You, Uranium Club, Sinead O’Brien, Hash Redactor, Shopping, Lungbutter, and Skux.

Omega returns to air on March 30, 2020 (midnight, New York City) as we fill-in for Purple Starlight for our next bonus broadcast.

Power is the Pharmacy Ky 2023, Constellation (Bandcamp)

My streaming app’s stats tell me Power is the Pharmacy has been one of my most frequently-played albums of the year so far, and the physical LP has seen a fair few spins on my table as well. Though I’ve had the chance to see these songs developing over a number of live performances, with former Lungbutter vocalist (and pal) Ky Brooks’ music there was no way to really predict how the final product would sound. Their solo sets (usually using a small synth and variety of vocal pedals) run from elfin quirk to brutalist noise, while on the rare occasions all five extremely busy, geographically disparate members of their current band are assembled they make a formidable electronic-tinged heavy rock proposition.

Power is the Pharmacy falls somewhere between these extremes, a loose, jammy set of noisy art rock built around Brooks’ distorted, spoken-sung free verse. The shape and intensity of that vocal processing (Brooks’ chief instrument) varies from song to song: on the title track Ky sounds like a pair of berserk chat bots in a feedback loop, while “All the Sad and Lonely People” sort of approximates a vintage talk box. Ky’s lyrics weave dreamy associations, references to critical theory, and the occasional absurdist joke into a kind of visionary ramble:

the easiest things to heal are like unchewing something with a nice texture the harder things are like uncracking and come together sharply in a way that makes you worry about the integrity of your teeth it's like having a second secret set of teeth that do the opposite of what teeth do

and if the most powerful teeth are razor sharp and jagged the invisible jaw has just as much power it’s strong enough to put anything back the way it should be

To create Power’s music, Brooks improvised in studio with a small group of collaborators including electronic ambient musician Nick Schofield, jazz saxophonist James Goddard (AKA Skin Tone), and Andrés Salas of excellent Montreal-based Colombian punk band Bosque Rojo, then chopped and spliced these raw materials into loops. The backgrounds of these three musicians make a nice stylistic Venn diagram for where Ky’s music can be found, as does the presence in the additional credits of members of drone metallers Big Brave and experimental post-punks Gong Gong Gong. On “Revolving Door,” Ky dabbles in meditative drone, while “The Dancer” turns an arpeggiating synth loop and breakbeat-style drumming into something you could comfortably disassociate to at a club. Expansive album highlight “Dragons” even summons something akin to the classic Constellation Records post-rock sound, with its creeping pacing, waves of multi-instrumental distortion, and Farley Miller’s martial drumbeats.

Of course, the diversity of Ky’s collaborators also speaks to Brooks’ broad and deep connections within Montreal’s independent music scene, and to Power is the Pharmacy as an album defined by these relationships. The album is dedicated to Joni Sadler, Ky’s Lungbutter bandmate who died at just 36 from a brain aneurysm, and much of Pharmacy’s tone and lyrical content can be understood as Brooks’ efforts to process a profound grief. But there is also the sense of trying to bring a once-vital community back together, in the wake of not only the loss of Sadler but the isolation enforced by Québec’s draconian lockdown mandates. The pandemic has done few favours to an experimental scene already pressed to define itself apart from the Godspeed-adjacent wave of bands who found such remarkable international success, but Power is the Pharmacy is a testament to the quiet endurance of a generation of talented musicians and community builders, and the oblique paths of healing.

LUNGBUTTER - "Veneer", from the 2019 album ‘Honey' out via Constellation.

LUNGBUTTER - “Curtain” off the album 'Honey' out now on Constellation  Records.

Directed by Clayton Beugeling and Kaitlyn Zozula

Cinematography by Tom McNamara

Costume Design by Sine Kundargi-Girard and Kaitlyn Zozula

The Album Drop #418 – July 9, 2019

This week we have new tunes from Silversun Pickups, The Raconteurs, Silverstein and much more! (more…)