3/5/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock
Song of the Week: Water From Your Eyes "Barley"
Album of the Week: Tanukichan "GIZMO"
1. Water From Your Eyes "Barley" Matador
2. Tanukichan "Been Here Before" Company
3. koleżanka "Koszmary" Bar None
4. Mandy, Indiana "Pinking Shears" Fire Talk
5. Kxllswxtch "WASTE"
6. Death Valley Girls "What Are The Odds" Suicide Squeeze
7. Yves Tumor "Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood" Warp
8. TEKE::TEKE "Garakuta" Kill Rock Stars
9. Humazapas "Chichu Burru" AYA
10. Lomelda (feat. More Eaze) "Scaredy's World" Double Yolk Record House
11. Dry Cleaning "Swampy" 4AD
12. Slow Pulp "Cramps" Anti
13. The Church "C'EST LA VIE" Communicating Vessels
14. Momma "Bang Bang" Polyvinyl
15. Youth Lagoon "Idaho Alien" Fat Possum
16. Bonnie Trash "Shades Of You" Hand Drawn Dracula
17. Kara Jackson "Pawnshop"
-hour 2-
18. REBENN "Maybe I'm Psycho"
19. Arlo Parks "Impurities" Transgressive
20. Gorillaz(ft Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) "New Gold"
21. M83 "Earth to Sea" mute
22. The Allergies "Mash Up the Sound" Jalapeno
23. Sir Chloe "Hooves" Atlantic
24. Metallica "If Darkness Had a Son" Blackened
25. Dååth "No Rest No End" Metal Blade
26. Tanlines "Outer Banks" Merge
27. Ruen Brothers "Don't Know Whats Come Over You"
28. Ty Segall Emmett Kelly "Blue" Drag City Inc.
29. Annie DiRusso "Nauseous"
30. The Now "Devil Inside Me" Trew
As I near my anniversary event horizon I reflect on forgotten previous versions who have become the biggest strangers I've known. Through the power of forward motion I got to drop another New Noize and here are some highlights off the playlist.
I kicked off the set with the New Noize Song of the Week from a band called Water From Your Eyes with their latest single "Barley" . It's dramatic in all the right places.
Tanukichan snatched up Song of the Week earlier this year so needless to say I was waiting for this to hit my inbox and as soon as it did it hit that permanent rotation. You know the album is good when you listen to it cover to cover, then immediately run it back. This album is kinda sad but not in a sad way if that makes sense. It has that dream pop texture with some serious fuzzy garage rock dankness that transports you into this emotional state far away from your present self. Tanukichan is not a new artist by any means but GIZMO is the record that people will listen to and then dive into the back catalog as soon as the album finishes. Also anyone that knows me knows how hard it was for me not to make Cracker Island the Album of the Week cause I am a fan of the Gorillaz and there are some BANGERS!
Talking about bangers Mando and Grogu are back and the bar for episode 1 of Seasons 3 of the Mandolorian is set to ULTRA HIGH. By the time the episode was over we had been to 3 worlds, met some classic friends, made some new enemies and set up to pick up key quest items for the final boss.
I KNOW I HAVE NOT BEEN TALKING ABOUT LAST OF US. Why, though? People are constantly asking me what I think of the HBO adaptation of one of the greatest narratives ever told in video games. Obviously I think it's a masterpiece of TV but I have been saying for decades that video games are a superior form of expressing narrative OVER film and TV every time. Never have I said the movie was better than the video game. There is one exception.
ANIME!!!!! Let's look at cyberpunk 2077, the game was an overall disaster mostly because of how broken it was on rollout. Then the anime came out which was one of the bigger surprises of last year and people returned to the video game, which was all patched up and was a different experience compared to when it was initially released.
Anime and animation are better mediums as their only constraints are the imagination and the almighty budget. But when anime does get an upper tier budget you get things like Attack on Titan. DID YOU SEE THE NEW EPISODE?!?!?!?! If you know, you know and if you don't you never will.
I'll be back Sunday after completing 15,695 days give or take a few...
