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toehead - My Heart Pumps Piss For You

The second full-length from Ohio transplant toehead, My Heart Pumps Piss For You, is exemplary in the DIY bedroom genre. It has a small and intimate vibe but still carefully pored over for additional, subtle, textures - like a faint drum beat or layered, meandering, guitars. 

Shanshala - Point Nemo

The opening notes of the Point Nemo EP from Shanshala are a deceptive representation of the two full songs that make up the release. A gently strumming acoustic guitar accompanied by a warm organ might fool your brain into thinking you’re in for some Lightning 100-esque Adult Contemporary but the vocals introduce themselves with a slight warble that tells you otherwise. 

Billy Anderson - Billy Again Lately

A lifetime could be spent documenting the work of R. Stevie Moore. Part of that undertaking would be shining a light on many of the 40 years worth of collaborations Moore has given the world. One such frequent collaborator is Billy Anderson, reportedly Moore’s best friend since the late 60′s and, from the sounds of it, a fitting partner.

Billy Again Lately was recorded released in late 1977 and features a number of lo-fi original pop gems that you’d expect from the frantic brain of R. Stevie Moore and some bombastic covers, such as the satisfyingly intense version of “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” As you’d hope, it runs a wide gamut of styles but somehow manages to feel like a cohesively good time.

The Pills - Lost Tape

There’s something completely endearing about listening to a band that wears their influences brightly on their sleeve. Assuming you also enjoy those influences, it creates an instant common ground. The Explorer’s Club channels The Beach Boys every bit as much as Bully channels Grunge. They do it with their own twist and expertise but, regardless, the root influence is still there.

DEDSA “Lighter Click”

The official music video for DEDSA’s “Lighter Click” has a visual aesthetic that you would typically associate with thrashing metal bands obsessed with wizards, creatures and fantasy tropes of all sorts. Surprisingly, the song is a dance-y number with a slow build into a chaotic explosion of energy.

I’m honestly blown away by the style of this video, the amount of work to create this world and the attention to detail. It’s more akin to Fantastic Planet than it is Heavy Metal but there’s clearly influences coming from all over.

Volume 99

Welcome to 2018! While an astronomer might be quick to point out that there is nothing astronomically significant about January 1st, it works quite well as a time to refresh and begin again. A Fresh Start if you will. We're hurdling into the new year by posting another 25 minutes of great local music, some of which is already available in EP and LP forms and some of which we have to wait a few months to be released in their entirety. Regardless, we've got a lot to look forward to this year and Volume 99 is just a taste of it.

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Peachtea - Pt. 1

Lionlimb - Maria

Mouth Reader - Eyes Sink

Two Chalfonts - Kings Highway (Tom Petty)

Tape Deck Mountain - Halo

Woodsplitter - Heart Of It All

Joseph Bradshaw & Nikki Lane “Wait Till After Christmas”

Waterfall Wash “Do You Know When It’s Christmas?”

*repeat repeat - “Baby It’s 2018″

As the year winds down now is the perfect time to remind you of a few facts about *repeat repeat:

They put on a scorching live show.

They released the second full-length record, Floral Canyon, on Dangerbird Records in 2017 and it's excellent. Do Listen.

They are a funny bunch.

Smart Objects “The Autumn Man” (Official Video)

Back in August we shared the first single from Ben Harper’s new project, Smart Objects, “The Autumn Man.” Hopefully it’s been in your rotation since that time because it’s a damn fine piece of pop work. 

Rales - "Windsor Pl”

Woodsplitter - May All Your Post Rock Dreams Come True

Woodsplitter, the genre hopping side project of All Them Witches Ben McLeod, has another new instrumental album to indulge in. Like the previously released Journey Into Krautrock and Egyptian Overlord before that, McLeod picks a flavor and dives in deep, embracing the tropes of a particular style but always with his own enjoyable twist. May All Your Post Rock Dreams Come True is, obviously, his version of quiet-to-loud arrangements the likes of Explosions in the Sky, 65daysofstatic and Mogwai (of which there is even a cover). The songs build with tension until releasing into some overtly epic onslaught of sound, best listened to at the highest of volumes.

Two Chalfonts “Merry Christmas Will Do”

I’m all for a maudlin, introspective, Christmas tune but sometimes it’s nice to get an infusion of upbeat pop-rock for the holiday season. Enter Two Chalfonts cover of Material Issue’s “Merry Christmas Will Do” - a seemingly happy song cut with melancholy lyrics if you’re paying attention. 

Mouth Reader “Eyes Sink”

Tristen “Crying on Christmas Day”

Great to see Tristen keeping with her holiday tradition of releasing a new song in December. This years offering, “Crying on Christmas Day”, is a somber number but well suited for a time of year where we reflect. This pushes melancholy to its limits, in the most pleasingly moving of ways.

Volume 98

December is, historically, a time for reflecting on the year's previous releases - a worthy practice if ever there was one. However, there's still plenty of great recent releases that haven't been highlighted on our show and that just simply will not stand. If the WOTT Music podcast is a time capsule of the great music our city has to offer, we're going to forge ahead with documenting those releases. There may be a Best Of episode in our future but until 2017 has completely run out of steam, we're going to keep highlighting newness.

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The Subnovas - I Cannot Stop

Kim Logan - Ladyboy

Joshua Morse - Demon Seed (Castlevania 3)

Robyn Hitchcock -Time Coast

Nightblonde - Let's Go To Bed (The Cure)

HARI - All My Darkest Dreams

PANGS - VANISHING POINT

Soccer Mommy - Inside Out

Vaporwave Christmas Story

Contemporary Tapes is a Nashville based label focused on highlighting releases from the experimental and vaporwave electronic genres. They’ve released albums from locals such as Palm Spring and Strange Æons but their latest release compiles songs from artists across the country to create a surprisingly pleasing, far-out Christmas album.

Typically,  Vaporwave and Christmas would seem to be two ideas that would never work well together but this comp proves that theory 100% incorrect. Listening to “All I Want For Christmas Is You” or “The Scut Farkis Affair” it’s clear that there’s room for plenty of new styles in the Christmas genre.