2/22/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Lana Del Rey "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter" Interscope
Album of the Week: Hen Ogledd "DISCOMBOBULATED" Domino

Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist "Empty Pages"
Baby Keem "House Money"
J. Cole, Future & Tems "Bunce Road Blues"
Maxo Kream, Denzel Curry & JPEGMAFIA "Fake Jeezy"
Denzel Curry & The Scythe (feat. TiaCorine & A$AP Ferg) "The Scythe"
SZA "Save The Day"
Don Toliver (feat. Travis Scott) "Rosary"
Thundercat (feat. Mac Miller) "She Knows Too Much"
L’Eclair (feat. Erin Kimberly) "Ring My Bell"
Fcukers "Beatback"
Odd Mob (feat. Lizzy Land) "Never Alone"
Boys Noize "SH5B0MBE"
Gumshoe "Born to Feel"
Kim Gordon "Dirty Tech"
Yael Naim "Multicolor"
Hen Ogledd "End of the Rhythm"
Jon Hood "Primrose"

Hour 2

Lana Del Rey "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter"
Ken Park "Shatter"
The Haunted Youth & Max Fry "Deathwish"
Charm School "Scene Queen"
Clarion "Blue Fairy"
Grace Ives "Stupid Bitches"
La Sécurité "Bingo"
Genesis Owusu "STAMPEDE"
Lucid Express "Setback"
The Bug Club "Watching the Omnibus"
Mirah "To Me"
Tiwayo "Sunshine Lady"
My New Band Believe "Numerology"
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis "Rules of the Game"
Exhumed "Shovelhead"
Flore Laurentienne "Régate"

So much is happening right now. It’s Ramadan, it’s Lent, Lunar New Year energy is still floating around, Olympic golds popping up on the timeline, Pisces season feelings in full effect, the 30th anniversary of Neon Genesis Evangelion (yes I am absolutely in FOMO overload and yes I am still jobless), and we’ve got a planetary alignment coming at the end of the month.

And somehow… New Noize is still the most chaotic thing in my life.

The onslaught of new music refuses to stop and neither do I. I had to cut a lot from this set (like, a painful amount) so just know there was a whole ghost-version of this show that never made air.

Anyways getting to the thick of things so many amazing record were out this past week. A few standouts include the new Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist "Spiral Staircase" Baby Keem "Ca$ino" Yael Naim "Solaire" & Jon Hood "Pieces of Rality". Each can stand up on their own and deserve a listen cover to cover.

The New Noize Album of the Week goes to DISCOMBOBULATED by Hen Ogledd on Domino. I genuinely cannot cleanly categorize this record. It’s not art rock, not alternative, not experimental… but also completely all three. The band pulls from sounds that feel both ancient and futuristic, almost like progressive music that predates recorded history. Crescendos crash into textures that feel regional but placeless, pulling from eras of time, familiar but unreachable.

This is my favorite kind of album: maximum re-listenability. Comfortable extremes. Some songs barely pass the one-minute mark while others stretch toward twenty. DISCOMBOBULATED feels like sitting inside someone else’s mind and watching their memories as home movies. You recognize the feeling even if you’ve never been there.

Song of the Week was brutally hard to choose. Fcukers keep dropping banger after banger with “Beatback.” Thundercat gave us “She Knows Too Much” from his upcoming release featuring his friend Mac Miller (RIP). Genesis Owusu swung punk on “STAMPEDE.”

Then there is Lana Del Rey talking about making her husband dinner on "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter". She sings over this musical landscape that has this old school Hollywood Arabian Halloween feel, almost like you are navigating in the bayous of Agrabah during the fall full moon harvest.

Looking forward to next week's set & hopefully you come through. Until then....