I’ve been listening to Slugbug’s “Macintosh Tapes” on and off for a couple of years, but only recently have I actually listened to the rest of the Truck Month album; it’s honestly phenomenal. All of the songs on the album are very electronic and somewhat futuristic sounding, yet often pretty bleak, especially when you read some of the lyrics. Some of them are pretty silly though. It’s super refreshing in that no two songs on the album sound too similar.
Jun 9, 2025
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Not sure if this is a normal arc for aging hipsters but recently oddball indie country has really been clicking in a way it never did before and Bill Callahan’s work as Smog is just amazing. His baritone voice really sells the poetic tales of self-loathing. Hell the entire album Knock Knock is about fumbling Chan Marshall (Cat Power) and if that’s not a relatable vibe I don’t know what is
Album picks: Red Apple Falls, Dongs of Sevotion, Knock Knock, A River Ain’t Too Much to Love, Supper
Jan 10, 2025
December is such a tragically dead month for new releases that it’s a rare gift to get an album this fucking good this late in the year. My friend Marcos sent me a link to Heavy Metal out of the blue a few days after it was released – I don’t always listen to what he sends me, and he knows that, but I’m so glad I went into this with a clear mind and open heart. It’s been ages since a first listen of an album hit me this hard.
Lyrically Heavy Metal feels like what I always wanted from Dan Bejar but never quite got, and musically it almost feels like John Cale tried to rerecord Paris 1919 from memory with a single microphone and a cracked Ableton rip. Or something like that? Mostly, it feels like a wholly original statement that can’t be contained, like someone finally letting go of any inhibition and confessing every private insecurity without fear. His lyrics teeter from darkly hilarious (“like Brian Jones I was born to swim”) to bizarrely visceral romanticism (“you were born to break my big hairy football arms/like clean windows kill birds”) while regularly returning to the ultimate questions life has to offer: love, desire, purpose, God, you name it. It’s self deprecating without being self indulgent and immensely wise without ever feeling like an intellectual exercise.
It’s an album that feels like too rich of a body of work to even properly engage with on the first several listens. Winter’s emotionality is so deep, so personal and so bizarre that it becomes universal – so relatable yet so exaggerated and disjointed that it borders on psychological horror. I’m going to be picking up on new things within these songs for a long time to come, and I suspect this album will stand out to me as one of the absolute best when I look back at the year.
Dec 30, 2024
Fall-ish album, was my top play of the week. Just outstanding, stirring stuff, probably one of my top five favorite albums ever. Every year I feel like my favorite song here changes, right now it’s Simple Twist of Fate. Other years it’s been, Meet Me In Morning, You’re A Big Girl Now, next year who knows.
Oct 25, 2024
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the byoc box is as good as it gets price wise at really any fast food restaurant, to the point that i’m sure they're bleeding money every time i order it (which is just about every time i go). you get to pick a “specialty”, a taco/burrito, a side, and a medium drink. i get the gordita, five layer beefy, fiesta potatoes, and baja blast, all for the low, low price of 5.99 dollas minus tax. these items on a normal order will run you almost 14 smackaroos.
Jun 5, 2025