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Back at it in our normal two-hour timeslot after a week off. We could’ve ended things with the experimental beauty that was Tara Jane O’Neil and Nikaido Kazumi. We chose to finish with Slughog instead.
Playlist after the jump.


Crocodiles – Cockroach

The Gary – Monozona
Cows – Hitting the Wall
Body/Head – Turn Me On
Deep Time – Gold Rush
Magik Markers – Acts of Desperation
Throwing Muses – Sunray Venus
Silian Rail – Glass House
Polvo – Fast Canoe
Le Tigre – The The Empty
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats – The Dark Divide
Eleanor Friedberger – I Won’t Fall Apart On You Tonight
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – I Admit My Faults
Liars – Dress Walker
Fuzz – You Won’t See Me (Live)
Saves the Day – Certain Tragedy
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Lariat
King Khan & The Shrines – Better Luck Next Time
Angel Olsen – Windows
The War on Drugs – Red Eyes
The Cure – In Between Days (Live)
Lotus Plaza – Jet Out of the Tundra
Tara Jane O’Neil & Nikaido Kazumi – Nursery
Erase Errata – Dust
Slughog – Swine, Gut

Jangly Montreal garage rock that brings to mind Let it Bloom-era Black Lips, which is never a bad thing. The band’s S/T LP is out now on Burger/P. Trash and you can grab the entire thing over at their bandcamp page.

From the band’s upcoming S/T reissue, I’ll let guitarist Steve Holmes explain:

From the same board recording at the Blind Pig comes this crazy song that, in retrospect, it stands as one of the more interesting things we ever wrote. In fact, Mike once played this very take in one of his college music courses as an example of making music in a vacuum, without expectations. This song highlights our fascination at the time with odd time signatures, and also stands an attempt to all play in different times and overlap the parts until they re-sync.
The song was among the very first we wrote (and uses another alternate tuning we only utilized once elsewhere: EBD#EBE). It also used to be our standard set closer until we wrote “Stay Home” and dropped it from the set. We briefly considered recording this for the album, but we ran out of time in the studio, and we weren’t sure that it really fit in with the other songs we had on the record.
The song opens with Steve drumming in 4/4 with alternating snare and kick drum. My riff comes in played in a 10 measure bar (3/4, 3/4, 4/4). Mike’s riff then comes in, overlapping with mine; however, he’s playing in 7/4 and I add an additional 4/4 bar to sync every other cycle. The second section has me playing a 3/4 riff with Mike overlapping in 5/4. The final section has us all switching to a 7/4 rhythm.
Mike used to get a kick out of throwing a few measures of “Jesse’s Girl” over the top and decelerating the rhythm, just to fuck with Steve and me before switching to his actual riff. This section of the song really gave Steve an opportunity to take “lead” on the drums while Mike and I held down the rhythm with our guitars.
In the outro of the song, Mike switches back to his opening riff while I continue playing the 7/4 riff.
You can really notice how much we sped up the tempo by the end of the song—not a perfect take by any means. But it’s nice that any version of this song survived the intervening years (and survived on cassette, no less).

Jim played this during the show on Friday and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. In case you missed it…