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Five Songs, 7/10/2021

Boris, "Flower Sun Rain" This comes to us from Smile, the US version, because Boris being Boris, there are different versions of this record with different track lists for different countries. I'm not a completist on this, and so I'll just declare the US version...

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Five Songs, 7/9/2021

They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE When I die, and you cut my brain open (which I'm sure somebody will), you'll hear a tiny echo of this song. Devo, "Be Stiff" From their landmark Freedom of Choice, which is a hell of...

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Five Songs, 6/20/2021

Mombu, "Orichas" Mombu!!! [honking intesifies] Bedhead, "The Unpredictable Landlord" You know, a thing I do very little here is look at the lyrics of songs. That's largely because I don't really pay any attention to them. I like that they're there, and I even learn...

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Five Songs, 3/28/2021

Russian Circles, "Vorel" Russian Circles usually gets tagged with the post-rock label, which doesn't really hang together to me. There's nothing really post- about most of their stuff. To me, this is really just straight up instrumental metal, and it's faaaantastic at that. They've been...

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Five Songs, 2/15/2021

Grandaddy, "Now It's On" I think I've used this space before to kind of lament how Grandaddy hasn't really connected with me. I can see the quality, but it's just never really clicked. This is a fine tune, though. American Music Club, "Outside This Bar"...