The Unwelcome Guest
8/5/2021Sky Train - Omar S, Nite Jewel
Omar and Nite laying out their bold vision for a future in which all human transport is conducted via networks of elevated bullet train railways and advanced pneumatic tube technology.NTE - Buscabulla
A seriously steamy groove from the Puerto Rican genre-hoppers. Like, drop the needle on this one, hang up your wrinkly T-shirts—the ones crammed in the deepest, darkest corners of your dresser drawers—and watch those babies turn as smooth as a dolphin’s dumper.O Ninho - Jose Mauro
This is the song that plays in every cemetery in Rio De Janeiro on the Dia das Bruxas just as the sun is creeping below the foothills of the Tijuca Forest. The first blare of the brass section is usually when the first zombified hands thrust up through the loam, and the first shriek of the woodwinds is typically when the poltergeists start knocking over urns and setting off car alarms.Actually - Dan Kyle
When’s the last time you changed your mind about something important? I can cite a few big reappraisals in my own life, but I can’t underline one single and identifiable “Actually” moment.
I find that a true mind change is a more gradual, unconscious process—a downstream effect of the fact that, unless you’re totally incurious or immovably stubborn, your outlook on the world is constantly evolving. The whole perceptual framework you rely on to interpret your reality is shifting ceaselessly, like so many tectonic plates rubbing and crunching and subducting against each other.
Sometimes, all that geologic activity might create new patterns, new topological features, new mountain ranges of belief and presentiment. But that’s only after those plates have done their imperceptibly slow scraping beneath the crust of conscious thought. I guess that’s way it’s so hard to change people’s minds: the only way to really do it is through some miracle of directed continental drift.The Flood is Following Me - Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion
Feels like we’ve all got the flood following us nowadays. The unwelcome guest forever rapping our door. Guess we can take solace in the fact that it’s not a particularly novel feeling to have. But this time… this time it seems like the big one might really be on its way. We’ve got wannabe Noahs out here literally building their arcs. I hope you’ve got some pool noodles in the shed.Get Sun (feat. Arthur Verocai) - Hiatus Kaiyote
HK did an AMA in r/indieheads not too long ago, and one of their answers talked about how they intentionally make their music so intricate as to encourage fans to unravel their mazy songs over multiple listens for new details and “hidden gems.” You get the full effect of that purposeful complexity on Get Sun. It’s cool every now and then to see artists happily jettison the “less is more” ethos in favor of hyperactive balls-to-the-wallism.Work Hard, REST - Deep Aztec
The coup de grace of the South African Deep Aztec’s trunk-bumping debut full-length. I’m with him on the REST, although he loses me a little on the Work Hard bit.Traveler - Mesh
I really liked Mesh’s recent EP, which sounds a little like if a cryptozoology reading group decided to start a psych-punk band. I don’t know anything about these guys, but if I had to guess, I’d say they all live together in the radio broadcasting van Woody Harrelson’s character drives around in 2012.I Wanna Get High To The Music - Pardoner
Playlist’s almost over. About time to spark the damn thing or pass it to somebody who will.Click Song Number One - Miriam Makeba
I have one of the worst cases of marble mouth that I know of. Tongue limper than a wet rag. Cannot get it to work right.
It is simply a wonder that Miriam Makeba and I are conspecifics; me of the fat dumb tongue, she the singer of beautiful songs in Xhosa, which both contains 18 click consonants and is a tonal language. Same kind of shame I feel when I listen to John Moschitta, Jr spit. I may was well be a hooting gibbon. Hell, the monkeys sound better than me too.
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