January was a bit of a scrappy month in terms of regular posts, but we still managed to cover some excellent artists. Why not catch up with any you missed with this tailor-made mixtape? Click the artist names in the tracklist to be whisked off to the review.

Tracklist:

1. Jesus in the 70s – Siskiyou
2. 2 Broke 2 Old – Gorgeous Bully
3. Another Way To Go – Adeline Hotel
4. Scene Sick – Diet Cig
5. Dog Burial Theme – Dicktations
6. Up the Academy – Mike Pace and the Child Actors
7. Con/ A Sewer/A Cat – Amateur Love
8. The End is a Vicious Thing – Puzzlecuts
9. Manic Pixie Dream Girl – Furnsss
10. Party Girls – Gleemer
11. Soft Reputation – Unlikely Friends
12. Passing Through – Harley Alexander
13. Coward’s Luck – Hip Hatchet
14. Memphis – The Wandering Lake
15. How a Resurrection Really Feels – The Hold Steady
16. Fire in My Eyes – Yours Are The Only Ears
17. Traffic is Okay – Sitcom
18. Gold & Rose – Dear Sister

Also make sure you check out our mammoth collection of our Favourite ‘Free’ Music of 2014. Finally, if you enjoy long, rambling pieces that try and draw connections between my favourite music and my favourite books, check out this piece on The Hold Steady’s Separation Sunday (Craig Finn said he enjoyed it, so it carries his stamp of approval).

January 2015 Roundup from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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“traffic was okay
the day wasn’t so bad
walk slowly through the rain
cause i love it”

…and ‘yellow jacket’ toward the end of the album:

“later on
i sing my song
it is a rainy day
with my yellow jacket on”

To add to the simplicty, Lazovick includes two sets of four songs (eight of the 18 tracks on the album) that do not exceed one second in length. The first quartet (listed 00.00 by Bandcamp) are entitled ‘kick’, ‘click’, ‘sound’ and ‘tap’ and are merely samples of the instrument sounds. The second (this time 00.01 in length), entitled ‘J’, ‘A’, ‘K’, ‘E’ , are, you guessed it, Lazovick spelling out his own name. These are a deconstruction of Sitcom’s style, the first reducing his sound to their basic components and the second breaking what is already a pared-down lyrical approach into even smaller pieces. The result comes across as a piece of advice, a friendly suggestion to remove yourself from the overpowering but needless complications of life and to instead focus on the important, simple parts.

You can buy Drum set now via the Sitcom Bandcamp page.

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