Joshua Buergel
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Five Songs, 8/8/2023

Hammerhead, "Evil Twin" Hammerhead's initial three-album run with Amphetamine Reptile is probably my favorite on the label, and it's the second and third albums (Into The Vortex and Duh, The Big City) that are the real prizes. The first record is good, but the latter...

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Five Songs, 8/7/2023

Revenge, "14K" Revenge is Peter Hook's (Joy Division, New Order) band after leaving the latter of those bands. They put out one record and a smattering of singles, one of which gives us this song. And, look - Revenge wasn't very interesting. It was just...

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Five Songs, 8/6/2023

Gob, "Beauville" I have regrets when it comes to the tagging system I use around here. Yes, it's nice to have all the bands tagged, that's useful. But I wish I had also tagged genres, and subgenres, and some of the common threads in these...

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Five Songs, 8/5/2023

Pyramids, "The Echo of Something Lovely" Experimental post-rock band Pyramids released their first record on Hydra Head Records, which is how I ended up being exposed to them. They're honestly pretty all over the map on this record, which kind of lurches around between various...

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Five Songs, 8/4/2023

Pinkwash, "No Real Witness" I feel like every time Pinkwash comes up, I say something equivalent to "hey, this is neat, I keep forgetting about this!" I wish I could say that I'd grown past that, but no, I do still keep forgetting about this....