4/28/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: UNA "Puddles" Cool Jewel Records
Album of the Week: Deerhoof "Noble and Godlike in Ruin" joyfull noise

she's green "Figurines"
Greg Freeman "Point and Shoot"
Bag People "UPS"
Deerhoof "Return of the Return of the Fire Trick Star"
Sunflower Bean "Sunshine"
Mess Esque "Liminal Space"
Viagra Boys "The Bog Body"
Colin Miller "Cadillac"
Arcade Fire "Pink Elephant"
Deafheaven "Heathen"
Paradise Slaves(ft. Trevor Phipps) "Swim North"
Space Chaser "Ignite the Skies"
Divide and Dissolve "Dichotomy"
Our Chronicle "Stop Motion"
Freezemachine "Edge of a Knife"

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BIG BRAVE "innominate Nº viii"
UNA "Puddles"
Fly Anakin (feat. lojii) "CheckOnMe"
Silas Short "LUSHLAND"
Emma-Jean Thackray "Where'd You Go"
Femi Kuti "Last Mugu"
Gabriel da Rosa "Pê Patu Pá"
Durand Jones & The Indications "Flower Moon"
Luke Titus "Natures Eternal"
Salami Rose Joe Louis "Hobbies"
Bitter:Sweet "Stay"
ISTA "Aim For the Heart"
Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl"
Nazar "Anticipate"
Fontaines D.C. "It's Amazing To Be Young"

Corrections from last week. Okay, slight correction from last week's write-up:
Turns out the team we beat in the championship weren't lawn bowling teachers.
They were actual teachers. My bad. I got a little carried away. That said — the outcome was still nuts. I can officially add LAWN BOWLING CHAMPION to my short but deeply chaotic list of life accomplishments.

Here's the play-by-play:
Ninth frame, we’re down by three.
My last bowl — last of the frame — I drop an absolute dagger. Swing the score. We’re now up by one.

Tenth and final frame:
They’re about to win, they're up by two, poised for the kill... and I somehow pull another miracle bowl out of nowhere, snatch a point, and put us back up by one.
Their last player steps up... misses.
By the grace of Allah coupled with a lot of work we won!!!! I have been wearing the medal sans taking it off during a shower this whole week.

New Noize this week was chaotically perfect — the way it should be. Bounced from hardcore to dreamy indie to Brazilian ballads and somehow made it all work.

One of my favorite discoveries was Bag People — a band I had never heard of, mostly because I was probably still eating glue when they were around. Self-titled record, curated by Drag City, who dug into the archives to make this happen. If you’re a Sonic Youth fan, stop sleeping. This is essential listening.
Big respect to Drag City for doing the lord’s work and putting this into existence. Got to it a few weeks late — still counts.

New Noize Album of the Week is no surprise — it’s Deerhoof. Noble and Godlike in Ruin is a beast of a record. Been spinning it non-stop since it landed in my inbox early (thanks for the early hookup). Chaotically cohesive this newest collection of songs on Noble and Godlike in Ruin is some of their most ambitious. Its kinda all over the place in all the right ways. Deerhoof is essentially a live band with really fun records. Noble and Godlike in Ruin captures this live energy better than most of their other records. Feels alive in a way a lot of records don't.

The New Noize song of the week is UNA "Puddles". This track hit immediately.
Trust me. (And not just because I’m a lawn bowling champion now.)

Until next time.