1/7/24 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: SLIFT "Weaver's Weft" Sub Pop
Album of the Week: Pile Hot Air Balloon [EP] Exploding In Sound Records

1. Pile "Exits Blocked" Exploding In Sound Records
2. HighSchool "August 19" [PIAS]
3. SLIFT "Weaver's Weft" Sub Pop
4. Folly Group "Strange Neighbour" So Young
5. Nick Manzino "Mosquito"
6. Sleeping Jesus "Ferdy" Garden Shed
7. Oh Bummer! "Listen Up"  If This Then Records
8. Buck Meek "Cuero Dudes" 4AD
9. Christine and the Queens "Stayin' Alive!" Because Music
10. Ida Kudo "The Power That Is Woman" Pasadena
11. Royel Otis "Heading For The Door"
12. ERIC HILTON "Midnight Milan"
13. Katy Kirby "Hand to Hand" Anti
14. Alexvndria "Twilight"
15. Love Fame Tragedy "Don't Want You To Sleep With Someone Normal?" Bright Antenna
16. L.A.B "Oh No (Pt. 2)"
17. Courting "Emily G" [PIAS]

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18. RYUJIN "Dragon, Fly Free"
19. Exit Eden "Separate Ways" Napalm
20. Bring Me The Horizon "Kool-Aid" Sony
21. SPRINTS "Cathedral" City Slang
22. The Lemon Twigs My Golden Years" Captured Tracks
23. Finnoguns Wake "So Nice" Whats Your Rupture?
24. Liam Gallagher & John Squire "Just Another Rainbow"
25. Alkaline Trio "Versions Of You" Rise
26. Teenage Joans "Candy Apple"
27. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The "Dark Bauhaus Staircase"
28. IDLES "Dancer" Partisan
29. Shygirl "f@k€ (feat. Kingdom)" Because
30. Kirin J Callinan "Crazier Idea"  WORSE

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
12. ERIC HILTON "Midnight Milan"
14. Alexvndria "Twilight"
18. RYUJIN "Dragon, Fly Free"

Let me be the last to say happy 2024! We are in the Year of the Dragon and I for one am looking forward to all that new dragon feel.

Speaking of "new" New Noize is back. My set did include some things that came out in the last few weeks of 2023 including all the new music I could get my hands on in the past 7 days or so. Do you know how hard it is to get someone from a label to get back to you during winter break? Next to impossible, trust sun.

ANYWAYS

The New Noize Song of the Week goes to SLIFT with "Weaver's Weft" I need this new album whenever it decides to come out and if the record expands on what this single sounds like we are in for one hell of a ride. For transparency, SLIFT has released 3 songs off their upcoming record, ILION (out on the 19th) and each song is over 9 minutes long. I'm confident SLIFT will be receiving the New Noize Album of the Week later this month.

The New Noize EP of the Week is "Hot Air Ballon" by Pile. Who else would it be? Following up their 2023 LP "For Fiction" (which came out this past February), "Hot Air Ballon" sounds more like an epilogue than a collection of b-sides. "Hot Air Ballon" carries over this subdued sound from "For Fiction" but is way more refined and less experimental with less chaos than its 2023 full-length counterpart.  Will Pile come out with a full length to follow up on this 2024 1st week release? I hope so.

For those that care aka my real ones, I have moved the "Best of 2023 New Noize" to its own dedicated playlist here:

You can now listen to this or any of my "Best of" playlists on my Spotify page.

Will I be posting Dragon gifs on these write-ups for the rest of the year? Check-in with me come December.