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February 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:00:31 +0000

That’s right, February 2016 is a thing of the past. We think it’ll live on in our ears though, because there was some exceptional music floating around that we’ll be going back to all year. Here’s a playlist featuring every act we wrote about, hosted on the brand new (at least to us) Playmoss platform. As ever, click on the artist’s name in the tracklisting to be beamed off to the specific post.

Tracklisting:

1. A Hospital + Crucifix Made of Plastic – Florist
2. Richmond – talons’
3. Say – Indoor Voices
4. Aeroplane – House Plants
5. When I Was an Island – David Karsten Daniels
6. The Gentleman’s Apocalypse – JR Green
7. Hitman – Mrs. Hopewell
8. sun drops – ratbath
9. A Cruise – Brian S. Cassidy
10. Orpheus – Matt Kivel
11. Your Love – Jeremy Squires (INTERVIEW)
12. Blood Moon – C.M. Slenko
13. Bake – Broken Beak
14. Brushes Like a Fox – Saint Corsair
15. daniel – francie cool
16. Baby Blue – Mount Moriah
17. For You – Free Cake For Every Creature
18. Have This Dance – Govier
19. Goodness (trailer) – The Hotelier
20. The River Because – Sawtooth
21. why are you so cool? – Dying Adolescence
22. cockroach – tall friend
23. Waiting – Faint Peter
24. Heart Destroyer – Lazy Legs
25. Take it Forever – Beat Radio (INTERVIEW)
26. Every One of Them, Dogs – Quarterly
27. like a feather or a pawprint – Field Medic
28. Lay For June – Old Earth
29. 2 old 2 broke – Gorgeous Bully
30. Funny Man Routine – Table People
31. House & Home – Arlo Aldo
32. Cave Song – Sea Ghost
33. Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Boosegumps (from Sugar Rush)

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Song Premiere: Table People – Funny Man Routine

Jon Doyle — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:05:04 +0000

We really enjoyed Ride With Me, the latest full length from Seoul-based band Table People, describing their sound as “who-gives-a-damn lyrics and spiky guitar solos… Pavement meets the original post-punk generation”. So, when our pal Henry Demos told us he had produced a new single and asked if we’d like to stream it at WTD, we pretty were excited. But unfortunately, there is a catch as the single heralds the end of Table People. Saturday sees their farewell show in Strange Fruit, Seoul. So now we’re both sad and honoured to be one of the final resting places the band will know, a place outside of Seoul for their ghosts to linger and live on in all their analogue glory.

‘Funny Man Routine’ is not as spiky as anything on Ride With Me, Henry Demos swooping in and smoothing over the edges with fuzzed-out reverb. The vocals sound naive and unsure, less swaggering rock demigod, more odd and eccentric outsider, part Withered Hand, part Evangelicals. Think of the track as a lo-fi surf rock, dream pop encore, simultaneously sunny and strange, capped off with the final lines which are funny and weird and sad all at once.

“Doing my funny man routine for the football team at school.
If I showed them the sad parts, would they walk out on me.
So I showed them the sad parts and they fell in love with me.
So I showed them the sad parts and they cried for me”

You can buy ‘Funny Man Routine’ now from Table People’s Bandcamp page on a pay-what-you-can basis. If you’re in the area, be sure to get to Strange Fruit for 9pm in order to catch Nice Legs, JuckJuck GRUNZIE and Table People’s last hurrah. It’s 5000won + free pizza and Table People merchandise, so you’d be a fool not to go (unless, like us, you’re 9000 miles away). All the details are here.

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August Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:44:13 +0000

Another month has passed, summer is pretty much over. Beat the blues with this mixtape featuring all of the acts we featured during August. If you click the artist name in the tracklisting you will be whisked off to the specific post. Enjoy!

Tracklisting:

Red Coat – Adeline Hotel (Interview)
2. S.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
3. Daughter of the Sea – House of Wolves (Interview)
4. Monarchy – Table People
5. Ruin – Doomking
6. Lonely Boy – Titus Andronicus
7. New York Hardcore – talons’
8. Roar of Nothingness – Sun Organ
9. Slow Dark Water – Furnsss
10. You Are Arrived (But You’ve Been Cheated) – The Spirit of the Beehive
11. It Was Gone – Orchid Mantis
12. Big Sis – SALES
13. No Comprende – Low
14. The Washing Machine – SPORTS
15. Shark? – Shark? (Everything Is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner)
16. Christmas in Milwaukee – Advance Base
17. Only Friend – Valley Maker
18. My Track ’92 – Pet Cemetery
19. Dusk; Falling Asleep, Know That You Are Loved – Sabbatical Wilderness
20. Theremin Demonstration – Leon Theremin (Us Conductors by Sean Michaels)
21. The Lemon’s Cousin – Boy Scouts
22. Audrey Horne – Teen Love
23. Mia – Spencer Radcliffe
24. Return To The Moon – EL VY
25. Bug – Alex G
26. Wild Hearts – Kodiak Deathbeds
27. Waves – Abby Gundersen
28. UR = UO – No Touching
29. Sparrow & Stone – Eva Foote
30. What Can Be Taken – ÒOR

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

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Table People – Ride With Me

Jon Doyle — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:47:02 +0000

Table People are a band from Seoul who assembled through a mixture of late-night drinking, birthday parties and Craiglist (not necessarily in that order). The band describe their only aim as “to distill the first swig of a cold beer or maybe the rush of riding a bike down a steep hill”, which sounds like a pretty noble quest.

Their début full-length, Ride With Me, manages to get pretty close to these goals. Opener ‘Glass Matters’ has a Britpop vibe, that sort of radio-friendly gaiety of 90s guitar band, while the vocals lend the song a kooky, unconventional edge. This peculiarity continues with the title track, a blend of who-gives-a-damn lyrics and spiky guitar solos delivered in a manner difficult to peg, Pavement meets the original post-punk generation. The irregular aspect in toned down for ‘Monarchy’, a buoyant song where the guitars are sparkling and the percussion sharp and the vocals like one big promise, all melded together like a declaration of hope.

‘Thank You’ changes the tone again, sounding like a shoegaze song covered by a 70s garage band, while ‘Real Good Time’ and ‘Touch a Tiger’ are slow and atmospheric, the percussion tempered behind shimmering, psychedelic guitars. The guitars pick up again for ‘Hometown’, the song swinging toward the pop-punk end of the spectrum with heartfelt lyrics of hometowns and halcyon youth.

The final songs see another change of direction. ‘Mennonites’ is jangly and carefree, almost straying into ska-punk territory with the bouncy guitars and half-sung, half-spoken lyrics, but the three closers (‘Chiko’, ‘Finnish Prisons’ and ‘Dirty Wedding) flick between grungey rock and moody punk, reminiscent of the weirder Japandroids material if it switched out the raw noise for something more idiosyncratic and quirky.

You can buy Ride With Me now from the Table People Bandcamp page.

P.S. Table People are part of the Loose Union collective, which you should check out.

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