Joshua Buergel
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Five Songs, 9/2/2023

Coil, "Dark River" Coil is one of the most interesting bands to emerge from the original industrial scene, where they quickly went off in their own direction. By the time we get to their third proper album, Love's Secret Domain, there wasn't really anything industrial...

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Five Songs, 9/1/2023

Pile, "touched by comfort" Quite a lovely build-up on this one. The urgency that PILE bring to this song, the climax they build towards, doesn't at all pay off on the album, which lurches into a quiet instrumental that they call "fuck the police". But...

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Five Songs, 8/31/2023

The Baseball Project, "¡Hola America!" Baseball Project, yes, yes, very good, love 'em AS OF THIS WRITING THE MARINERS ARE IN THE LEAD IN THE AL WEST AND WOULD BE THE AL's #2 SEED IF THE PLAYOFFS STARTED TODAY WOOOOOO Poster Children, "Evidence" There was...

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Five Songs, 8/30/2023

Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, "Whip the Blankets" Fuck yeah, Neko Case doing a convincing June Carter impression here, great stuff. One Eye Open, "Blue Gene Blues" This is from a split LP with Janitors Against Apartheid, the final track, and it's...look, it's not good....

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Five Songs, 8/29/2023

Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Empty" I was going to say that this is the only STP track in my library, their contribution to The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack which I bought because it had a new track from Nine Inch Nails and Helmet. Anyway,...