11/16/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock
Song of the Week: Marlon Magnee "Nuage Gris" Disque Pointu
Album of the Week: Star Card "Trash World" Already Dead Tapes & Records
Triple Blind "Sketchy Invention"
Kalia Vandever "Withholding"
Roy Ayers "Dragon's Nest"
Hawk In The Nest "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Lord Jay-Monte Ogbon "Texting This Fine Shit for a Month"
TIWAYO "I've Got To Travel Alone"
Summer Walker, Latto & Doja Cat "Go Girl"
GENA "CIRCLESZ"
Ora the Molecule "Løveskatt (Midnight Magic Remix)"
Danny Brown (feat. underscores) "Baby"
Eliza Rose & Oppidan "Too Slow (All Night)"
FKA twigs (feat. PinkPantheress) "Wild And Alone"
Bicep "CHROMA 011 A.L.O.E II"
Ankhoï & Luch "THE FUTURE"
-hour 2-
BENEE "Underwater"
JMMR "Kiosk Radio"
Austra "Fallen Cloud"
Felsmann + Tiley (feat. Pet Deaths) "OPIOID"
Jim Jarmusch and Anika "Spooky"
Witch Post "The Wolf"
Sword II "Disconnection"
Jean Dawson "Prize Fighter"
Odonis Odonis "Hijacked"
Star Card "Oblique Strategies"
AVTT/PTTN "Heaven's Breath"
Team Trust "Beside the Tree"
Tara Lily(feat. King Krule) "Tropical Storm"
JJJJJerome Ellis "Evensong, part 2 (for and after James Harrison Monaco)"
Marlon Magnee "Nuage Gris"
The Orielles "Three Halves"
Not On Spotify
Triple Blind "Sketchy Invention"
Well that’s a surprise, Spotify doesn’t have my first track?! This is why you gotta catch the live set IRL. That’s the full New Noize experience.
Anyway, dramatic intro aside, these November vibes got me feeling all kinds of ways. Could it be the rain? Could it be the lack of steady income? Could it be both? Who’s to say. All I know is Sunday hit different and we landed in a moody zone. A good moody though. A cinematic one. A “rain hitting the curb, headphones on, hoodie up” type ish.
The flow was obvious Jazzy into lite R&B/hip-hop a fat slices of electronic excursions then guitars & feedback to close it out.
So many full lengths dropped this week. But I gotta shout out a recommendation that came via text from my guy Bernie. Dude was like, “You heard BENEE?” and then wouldn’t shut up about it. He sent me “Underwater,” and now I’m fully in. Her record Ur an Angel I'm Just Particles dropped a few months back and absolutely slipped through the cracks for me. Thank you, Bernie. Hollaz.
My heart’s heart, Aphrodite herself, blessed us with another release to close out 2025. Afterglow is more like a part two or an epilogue to Eusaxual. It has this post party feel, the kind of music you would rock after you are done with a rave and the sunrise is still below the horizon but the glow is lightning up your way to a motel as you look forward to a low thread count tumble with someone you just met. I love this record and I love that FKA Twigs decided to not release this as a "deluxe" but give "afterglow" the proper roll out is deserves.
If you want something aggressively electronic, Bicep’s CHROMA 000 is IT. They’ve been doing these CHROMA drops all year and now it’s all bundled. This thing goes hard by the 30-second mark. Your heartbeat will sync up whether you want it to or not.
Oh and this new JMMR record, Resistance is Fertile" also pumps and has a ton of sax.
Tara Lily EP is out and the world is a better for it. This small collection of songs hit just right during these rainy November nights. You can practically feel the pre-freeze air hit your nostrils as the asphalt cools to ice. Lo-fi melancholy in its purest form.
Sword II new album is one of my favorite albums of the year. If you are longing for an alternative band that sounds a bit loose but is real tight than checkout Electric Hour. There’s something familiar here that I can’t quite quantify. I’m just drawn to it like a moth to a reverb-soaked flame.
The New Noize Album of the Week is "Trash World" by Star Card. Ill be honest I was not familiar with this band at all. I was in my usual routine of listening to countless records, half-bored, half-zoned out… and then Trash World hits. And suddenly I’m not multitasking anymore. I’m 15 again, in my bedroom in New Jersey, headphones blasting, just feeling things. It’s youthful. It moves. It pulls. It hits. Take the ride. Trust me.
Singles Corner:
Ankhoï & Luch “THE FUTURE”… this is pure dance-floor joy.
Lord Jay-Monte Ogbon “Texting This Fine Shit for a Month”… hilarious and accurate.
And Marlon Magnée’s “Nuage Gris”. I have no idea what he’s saying (my French is trash), but that’s the New Noize Song of the Week.
I need to put the AC unit back in storage and pull out the plug-in heaters.
Until next Sunday.
