July 2016 Roundup: A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:48:47 +0000

Yep, it’s the beginning of a new month, meaning July 2016 is now officially in the rear-view mirror. As summers go, it has been pretty wet and miserable here with us, apart from a two-day spell when it was too hot, so what can you do? Still, we’ve had plenty of good new music to keep the spirits up. Here’s a Playmoss mix featuring every artist we covered last month, with links in the tracklisting as always so you can whizz through to the specific post and read about your favourites.

Tracklisting:

1. Staying in Line – Un Blonde
2. Skinned Knees – Soccer Mommy
3. Dream Wave – Tiny Ruins
4. No Sadness/Furrowed Brow – Good Good Blood
5. Pain – LVL UP
6. Theory Wars – Pop Weirdos
7. Crab Line – Trust Fund
8. Heaven’s Gate – Ghost Camp
9. Holy Ghost – Deer Scout
10. Desert Blues – Nassau
11. Okkervil River R.I.P. – Okkervil River
12. Housemouse – Wyndwood
13. Smash – Varsity
14. Raised By Wolves – Eternals
15. Starting Again – Lisa Prank
16. Feel You – Pat Moon
17. Nothing – Naps
18. Everywhere A Man Can Be (Teaser) – Zachary Lucky
19. Mailbox – Alexandra Gordon
20. Ditmars – Rainwater
21. You Are on the Water – Ben Seretan
22. Pinesol – Fern Mayo

You can check out the previous monthly roundups here, and our various other playlists and mixtapes here. Thanks as always for getting us through another month. Here’s to a good August!

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Song Premiere: Pop Weirdos – Theory Wars

Jon Doyle — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:41:29 +0000

For all of their grey matter, there is little doubt that learned people can think a little too much and let their strong views transmogrify intelligence into ignorance or stupidity. I mean, where else but in academia could people argue with ferocity about whether or not there is an argument to be had (this, for example)? But, as readers of Richard Powers will know, thinkers are humans too, often over-anxious neurotic ones with all-too-breakable hearts, so all this polemic squabbling must take it’s toll.

That’s where ‘Theory Wars’ comes in. The latest single from Atlanta duo Pop Weirdos, the song is taken from a forthcoming EP, Any Old Time. Here Bennett Kane and Jamison Murphy are joined by Richard Sapeta on drums to bring to life this half-paced pop croon, a song which could quite as easily be read as a wistful lovesick strum as an academic satire. The whole thing builds toward a communal sing-a-long finale which brings to mind the joyous choruses of Nana Grizol, thus proving the band are as adept at building up as they are at knocking down.

“I love you the most, she said
worship the droning in my head
I went to school and did my best
to keep you all impressed.

[…]

and it’s clear we’ve gone to war”

Theory Wars by Pop WeirdosAny Old Time has no release date as of yet but be sure to keep an eye on the Pop Weirdos Facebook and Bandcamp pages for further updates. While you are there, why not check out the band’s previous releases?

Cover by Wyatt Kane

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