Ex Hex, "Hot and Cold" There's an extremely 80s feel to Ex Hex. I get a false sense memory of sitting in the back of Monza when we pick up the college radio station at Washington State University, and being intrigued by hearing something a...
The Housemartins, "Flag Day" I don't want to profane this with my witless scribbling. Panopticon, "Trauerweide II" From a split release with Panopticon and Waldgeflüster, where the bands each contributed a long black metal song and a folk cover of a song from the other...
All You Can Eat, "Family Matters" Here on Five Songs, mostly, we like our punk to be DIY and forgotten, mostly. I'm fine with some of the glossier stuff, but the underground shit just feels a lot more vital. There's nothing special about All You...
De La Soul, "Intro" The biggest exception to rap skits sucking is pretty much anything with Prince Paul involved. The framing device for De La Soul Is Dead, of an audio storybook detailing kids encountering the record for the first time, is delightfully self-refential and...
Pallbearer, "Over & Over" This song comes from the 2016 single Fear & Fury, which was released after their breakthrough record, Foundations of Burden. It was a wise piece of striking while the iron is hot. Pallbearer plays doom metal, heavy and reliant on plodding tempos, and...
