Good show. I had fun, anyway. I cut the voice breaks for this one while The Patient Mrs. and her mom took The Pecan out to the grocery store, but the breaks nonetheless worked out to be maybe a minute longer than usual and that gave me a little rant time. Right before I played Goatsnake, which was the “new classic” choice cut for this episode, I went off about doing my dishes as rock and roll. As usual with words coming out of my mouth, the idea was kind of half-represented, but what I was talking about was the notion that your love of music should be a part of your life, not something separate from the rest of it. If you love music, it shouldn’t be something you segregate from the rest of who you are — something you sneak off to a dive bar to partake of — it should be a part of your everyday. I cut radio voice breaks while running the dishwasher. It’s a part of who I am.
How fortunate I have this post to explain the half-formed notions I don’t have the wherewithal to properly express vocally. Huzzah.
Anyway, if you got to listen, I tried to set this one up with a good flow from front to back plus a couple stark contrasts in the second hour. The break is between Graven and SubRosa, contrary to what the playlist says, but I liked that transition anyhow, and I think you can see early on that the focus is on some boogie with a sense of atmosphere. I talk up the Green Lung record again, because, well, it’s worth talking up, and dig into a few other things that I think are killer, including that Mount Saturn EP, which is likewise right on. And then I dip back from new music to play SubRosa’s “The Mirror” from their SubDued: Live at Roadburn 2017 release, because it’s a song I sing to The Pecan when I put him down for naps and have just about every day since he was born some 15 months ago. Fun stuff.
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Okay, here’s the playlist. Thanks to reading and/or listening:
The Obelisk Show Ep. 09 – 02.03.19
| Straytones | Dark Lord | Beware, Dark Lord! Here Comes Bell-Man* | 0:04:07 |
| Green Lung | Let the Devil In | Woodland Rites* | 0:05:02 |
| BREAK | |||
| Geezer | Spiral Fires Pt. 1 | Spiral Fires* | 0:05:50 |
| Seedium | Mist Haulers | Seedium* | 0:09:15 |
| Crypt Trip | Wordshot | Haze County* | 0:04:22 |
| Cloud Catcher | Beneath the Steel | The Whip EP* | 0:04:45 |
| Heavy Feather | Waited All My Life | Debris & Rubble* | 0:03:10 |
| Mount Saturn | Dwell | Kiss the Ring* | 0:07:08 |
| BREAK | |||
| Goatsnake | Mower | I + Dog Days | 0:06:05 |
| The Black Heart Death Cult | Davidian Beam Dream | The Black Heart Death Cult | 0:05:50 |
| Crystal Spiders | Tigerlily | Demo* | 0:05:37 |
| Swallow the Sun | When a Shadow is Forced into the Light | When a Shadow is Forced into the Light* | 0:07:26 |
| Graven | Backwards to Oblivion | Heirs of Discord* | 0:06:15 |
| SubRosa | The Mirror | SubDued: Live at Roadburn | 0:04:43 |
| BREAK | |||
| Electric Octopus | Mouseangelo | Smile* | 0:12:58 |
| Tia Carrera | Early Purple | Visitors/Early Purple* | 0:16:28 |
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every other Sunday night at 7PM Eastern, with replays the following Tuesday at 9AM. Next show is Feb. 17. Thanks for listening if you do.