Eureka!

6/03/2021

1. Overture - Momoko Kikuchi
   Do what I do: cue up Kikuchi’s 1986 album Adventure, Google image search the artist Hiroshi Nagai, and achieve a state of transcendent bliss while imagining the sound of a palm frond’s whispered rustle.

2. Have Mercy - J.U.S, Danny Brown
   Danny Brown at his puckish best in support of his fellow Bruiser Brigadier J.U.S, but special shouts to producer Squadda b for a delightfully disjunct instrumental.

3. Bobby - The Point
   Eruptive car window rattler from The Point, the fertile group project from Austin, TX’s 8CYL and RANEDAWG.

4. Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
   PMac and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album Ram just enjoyed a much-celebrated 50th Birthday, and this cut is a classic PMac narrative lark. It’s a trip to hear this version of PMac, having only just molted his Beatle carapace and still at his creative apex, indulge so luxuriously in his own PMacness.

5. Trip in the Lava - Mimz the Magnificant, Dunn, Semiartruth
   A woozy feather-fall into a deep REM dimension, with dream logic lyrics and a beat that rocks you in its boom bap cradle.

6. Kizashi, TEKE::TEKE
   On their first full-length, the Montreal-based septet TEKE::TEKE craft rich soundscapes that refract traditional Japanese instrumentation through the lenses of psych rock, grunge, surf rock, and ska. The result, illustrated neatly in Kizashi, is a kind of culturally syncretic worldbuilding that sounds like its being beamed from the caffeinated brain of a great anime artist.

7. Seeing Green - Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne
   The best Wayne verse in who knows how long. A performance almost-but-not-quite impressive enough to make you forget he took the check for the Trump endorsement.

8. Zone 1 to 6000 - Nabihah Iqbal
   The ludicrously talented British polymath Nabihah Iqbal delivers a danceable variation on the timeless theme of “We’re all just working for the weekend.”

9. Sweeping Promises - Upright
   Sweeping Promises’ Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal recorded their debut album Hunger for a Way Out using what they describe as a “single-mic technique.” That mono effect creates a strange and tasty temporal dissonance, as if a really cool contemporary garage band was transported to 1963, recorded an accomplished DIY album, and brought it back for our enjoyment.

10. Intergalactic Love Song - The Diddy’s, Paige Douglas
    As of 2017, NASA’s official position was that no humans have ever had sex in outer space. According to the Wikipedia article for “Sex in Space,” the physical act of lovemaking in a weightless environment actually poses some pretty complicated questions vis-à-vis Newton’s Third Law. And that’s not even to mention the unknowns surrounding conception and pregnancy. Anyway, this is a very good tune from the 2015 record Agony and Ecstasy.

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