Shuffle. Repeat. (2024)

07/03/2023

new wave holdovers, guitar minimalists, inspiration for Agalloch, ho******ic spoken word and more await you in this exploration of the softer side of post-rock’s infancy.

Albums Discussed
Sand - The Dynamic Curve
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Long Fin Killie - Houdini
Earwig - Under My Skin I Am Laughing
Lanterna - Lanterna
Roy Montgomery - scenes from the south island
Biocord - High Skies
Shiva Affect - Yahweh
Not Drowning, Waving - Proof
The For Carnation - Promised Works

13/02/2023

New Episode!

This was originally intended as an extension of our Smooth Soul Episode but it’s been like 3 months since my last upload. (Sorry about that)

In this episode we look back at a somewhat forgotten period in The Isley Brothers career that followed the exodus of the younger brothers and Chris Jasper and the death of O’Kelly. Ronnie and Rudolph attempt to pick up the pieces of the band with help from Angela Winbush, who’s career path was also uncertain following an intense split from René Moore just as the duo became hitmakers.

Regular episodes should be returning to the feed shortly!

10/11/2022

Finally! A new Episode is up. A look back at some lesser known Smooth Soul of the 1980s

Albums Discussed
David Lasley - Missin' Twenty Grand
Ronnie Laws - Mirror Town
Stevie Woods - Take Me To Your Heaven
Larry Graham - Victory
Norman Connors - Take It to the Limit
Marvin Sease - Marvin Sease
Steve Elliott - Completion of a Miracle
Gerald Alston - Gerald Alston
Carl Anderson - Protocol
Prince Phillip Mitchell - Devastation

29/09/2022

Hey all. Apologies for the delay in releasing episodes. After 9 months of delays my job is finally letting me work remotely, which will give me the time I need to get back to editing and recording. Thanks for your patience.

15/07/2022

For our handful of fans we are coming back. I have had trouble finding time to edit but my work schedule is changing soon which will give me some more time to dedicate to the show. I still have a backlog of episodes to edit and we’re recording again next week. We’ll see you soon!

19/05/2022

Disco’s peak in the seventies was so much more diverse than it’s given credit for. While the yacht rock revival and general music nerdom have changed the minds of many music fans and the musicians involved are often recognized for the virtuosos they were, what’s slightly less acknowledged was just how weird Disco could get. One branch of the Strange Disco tree is it’s ability to be fused with other genres, no matter how disparate. From Calypso to Turkish Folk, Zuhl, Gospel and so much more we explore 12 of these bizarre hybrids

03/04/2022

Rumors of the Blues’ death in the 1980s were greatly exaggerated. From the ZZ Top family tree, rumors of a secret Jim Morrison project, The (mostly) hidden hand behind desert rock the eighties blues scene proves it’s much more than middle of the road albums by legacy acts and George Thorogood and still had room for the weird to creep in.

Omar & The Howlers - Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
The Jeff Healey Band - See The Light
Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Circuit Rider - Circuit Rider
Havana Black - Indian Warrior
The Kinsey Report - Midgnight Drive
Rocky Hill - Rocky Hill
Sonny Landreth - Blues Attack
Masters of Reality - Masters of Reality

08/03/2022

Sorry for the delay. Had to get over the existential hump of turning 30. Also had to grow a mustache. Are the two things related? Probably.

Albums Discussed

Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer
UA - 11
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Dreariness - Fragments
Carol Grimes And Delivery ‎– Fools Meeting
Tamaryn - Dreaming the Dark
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Zola Jesus - Stridulum
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Blackwater Holylight - Silence/Motion

09/02/2022

A look into the dying days of glam when denim and leather attempted to overtake the hairspray and assless chaps with an addictive blending of 80's excess with vintage blues rock. A movement that was was ultimately crushed by the changing tides of the 90's but remains one of the brightest creative periods of an oft mocked subgenre.

Albums Discussed
Spread Eagle - Spread Eagle
Sea Hags - Sea Hags
Vain - No Respect
Salty Dog - Every Dog Has Its Day
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys
Smashed Gladys - Social In*******se
Dirty White Boy - Bad Reputation
White Trash - White Trash
Junkyard - Junkyard
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire

28/01/2022

Got a busy weekend of waiting for a FedEx package planned so uploading this earlier than usual.

Real Sad Girl Hours. If you processing your emotional trauma through music smash that mfing care react

24/01/2022

AM Bronze II: Ladies Night

Further explorations of the singer songwriter scene of the late sixties and early seventies. This time focused solely on albums released by the fairer s*x.

Albums Discussed

Catherine Howe - What A beautiful Place
Mary McCaslin - Way Out West
Mandy More - But That is Me
Judee Sill - Judee Sill
Bridget St. John - Songs for the Gentleman
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Essra Mohawk - Primordial Lovers
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Barbara Keith - Barbara Keith(1972)
Kathy McCord - Kathy McCord
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Janis Ian - Between the Lines

12/01/2022

There’s a few more episodes that will be edited and pumped out before this but here’s a look at the next few months topics:

The Softer Side of Early Post-Rock
Industrial Hip Hop
Arabic Jazz
Posthumous Randomizer

Ethereal Wave
Cowpunk
Industrial Doom
One Hit Wonders Randomizer

Dark Cabaret,
yAORcht,
avant-grind
Randomizer

Goth Country Origins
2010's Grunge
Progressive Electronic That rocks
Randomizer

Lost power pop
Dark Dub
US Power Metal : Post boom pre revival
Randomizer

Old Time Archival releases
Terrorcore
70s City Pop: The Boys
Randomizer

UK neo-folk
Psych goes Baroque
Afrobeat
Indigenous Rock Randomizer

09/01/2022

Inovations in Atmospheric Black Metal

Revisiting the early days of the second wave of black metal and exploring the early innovators of what would later be called the "Atmospheric" sub-genre. We journey far beyond Norway to find unique sounds decades ahead of their time, and primitive versions of some of the genres biggest names.

Albums Discussed

Thy Repentance - Ural Twilight Autumnalias (1995)
Eibon - The Garden of Theophrastus (1995)
Evol - The Saga of the Horned King (1995)
Summoning - Lugburz (1995)
Blut aus Nord - Ultima Thulée (1995)
Sear Bliss - Phantoms (1996)
Ancient Wisdom - For Snow Covered the Northland (1996)
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in My Heart (1996)
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia (1996)
Bergthron - Verborgen in den Tiefen der Wälder... (1997)
Elffor - Into the Dark Forest... (1998)
Agalloch - Pale Folklore (1999)
Hermh - Taran (1996)

03/01/2022

Cult Classic Mathcore Influenced Midwestern Emo w/ Post-Hardcore Tendencies From the 90's

A look back at the early(ish) days of the Midwestern Emo scene and some of the bands that blended it with other burgeoning punk scenes of the day. A hodge podge of 90's alternative influences that go far beyond this episodes obtuse title.

Albums Discussed

Mock Orange - Nines & Sixes
Chamberlain - Fates Got a Driver
Pinebender - Things Are About to Get Weird
The Regrets - New Directions: Results Beat Boasts
Castor - Tracking Sounds Alone
Boys Life - Departures and Landfalls
Boilermaker - Boilermaker
Giants Chair - Purity & Control
Ethel Meserve - The Milton Abandonment
Very Secretary - Best Possible Souvenir
The Casket Lottery - Choose Bronze
Cursive - The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song

27/12/2021

Drill & Bass

A bit of a change up from our usual Genre episodes. Rather than focus on one particular moment in a genre's history, we instead take a two fold approach, half exploration of Drill n Bass' English roots in the early 90s and half modern revivals. The original idea was that the modern stuff would be more experimental and varied in influence and would make it easier for us as our first two dip into an almost entirely instrumental and entirely electronic genre, but we both ended up surprised by the versatility and progressive elements that have been present from the beginning. The episode became less a compare contrast, and more a realization that this sub-class of drum and bass has been strange and unusual from the jump.

Albums Discussed

Ophiuchus - Nihilistic Cosmic Concept
Stazma - Shapeshifter
XO:RE - [NEED HELP!] War in Ukraine. Read description!
Root Locust - 0+
Rognvald - Xwife
Plug - 1: Visible Crater Funk
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
The Third Eye Foundation - Sound of Violence
Terminal Sound System - Solaris
Tube - Alive

20/12/2021

It’s our biggest and most varied Randomizer yet and we’re covering everything from leftist new wave to punk laced soul revival. Minimal Synth, Genesis worship, classic funk, progressive power Thrash, Alien themed noise rock, the YouTube algorithms favorite jazz record, the strangest and most heartbreaking spoken word album we’ve ever heard and much more.

Albums Discussed

Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence
Sadness - Ames De Marbre
Lonnie Holley - Just Before Music
Shores of Evening - Shores of Evening
Gabor Szabo - Dreams
The Brothers Christ - Echoes of lost Souls
Sugarloaf - Sugarloaf
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Seratones - Power
Fat Larry's Band - Breakin' Out
The Watch - The Art of Bleeding
Vanilla - Origin
Hex A.D. - Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden
Sermon of Flames - I Have Seen the Light, and It was Repulsive
Baazlvaat - The Higher Power
Gravenchalice - Samael
Cauldron Born - Born of the Cauldron
Screamer - Target Earth
Israel Nash - Topaz
Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways - The Paranoia Party

09/12/2021

Happy Holidays!

Rushed to edit this so it would be out at a decent time and figured I might as well just upload it. A very different episode discussing literal centuries of Christmas music. This was way more fun than I was expecting. A nice discussion about nostalgia, history and religious traditions and why this stuff is worth any music nerds time no matter what they may or may not celebrate in December.

Albums Discussed

Anonymous 4 - On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols & Motets
Loreena McKennitt - A Midwinter Night's Dream
Michael Praetorius - Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning
Ernst Wolff - German Christmas Songs
Ca****la Romana / Alexander Lingas - When Augustus Reigned: Christmas Music From the Byzantine Tradition
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor - A New Joy
La Colombina - In Natali Domini (Christmas in Spain and the Americas in the 16th Century)
John Eliot Gardiner - Christmas Oratorio
Mazowsze - Mazowsze śpiewa kolędy
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players & Andrew Parrott - The Carol Album: Seven Centuries of Christmas Music

08/12/2021

This Week

A look back at the golden age of Sophisti-pop. A time in the 80s when fancy lads ruled over both the charts and our hearts.

A mega stuffed episode featuring 10 stone cold classics for newbies and 5 forgotten relics for Trve Kvlt fanatics. Break out the champagne.

Albums Discussed

Prefab Sprout - Steve Mcqueen
The Style Council - Café Bleu
Sade - Promise
Simply Red - Picture Book
The Blue Nile - Hats
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Spandau Ballet - True
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
Level 42 - Running in the Family
Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back the Clock

Fra Lippo Lippi - Light and Shade
Modesty - Pieces of Modesty
The Montellas - Conscience
Scarlett & Black - Scarlett & Black
Animal Nightlife - Shangri-la

29/11/2021

When we think of Gothic Metal we often think of the early hybridization of death and doom or the drearier side of hyper produced Symphonic Metal, but throughout the early to mid 90's there was another side to the burgeoning goth metal scene. One filled with even stranger genre blends, bold risk taking and a shockingly modern approach to extreme metal lyricism. As the genre became more and more codified and gained more mainstream appeal these early innovations were mostly forgotten. We take a look back at these unremembered projects of yesteryear and attempt to reestablish the Kvlt credibility of a sub-genre that is laughed at by some, and completely disregarded by many others.

Albums Discussed
Decoryah - Wisdom Floats
Thorns of the Carrion - The Garden of Dead Winter
Wish - Monochrome
Children of a Lesser God - Migrations
Dystrophy - Spiegel Meiner Kalte
Thalarion - Towards the Obscure Slumberland
Monumentum - In Abesntia Christi
End of Green - Infinity
Overflash - Silent Universe
The Equinox ov the Gods - Images of Forgotten Memories
Salem - Kaddish
Lake of Tears - Headstones

22/11/2021

SPACE ROCK: THE LEAN YEARS

In the 50s and 60s man's imminent presence among the stars inspired bandleaders and lounge acts to create space age pop.

In the seventies the pop sci-fi and New Age boom brought us the golden age of space rock and the birth of space ambient

As the 90's approached alternative rock and jam bands began to to borrow elements from space rock's 70's peak and the adjacent neo-psych movement to redefine it for a new era.

So what the hell happened in the 80's?

Albums Discussed
Ra Can Row - Ra Can Row
The Ullulators - Share A Clam
Body - The Body Album
Lightdreams - Islands in Apace
Ego on the Rocks - Acid in Wunderland
Rockets - Galaxy
Melodic Energy Commission - Migration of the Snails
Cosmic Debris - While You're Asleep
Underground ZerØ - Never Reach the Stars
Lloyd-Langton Group - Night Air

ALSO IN THE FEED
A Bonus episode I should have uploaded Wednesday. A Continuation of last weeks Randomizer. Super slick Cynic Worship, the album that inspired the term "post-rock", blackened trad metal, modern progressive metal meets Duran Duran, Brazil does Zeuhl, and a somber blend of Native American and African Folk inspired ambient by a post-Earth band Manfred Mann

Voyager - Colours in the Sun
Papangu - Papangu
Molten Chains - Torment Enshrined
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Will Desolve - Echoes
Manfred Mann’s Plains Music - Plains Music

16/11/2021

Another Randomizer. Covering everything from Cinematic dissonant Death metal, doom by way of Krautrock, Berlin School, AOR, swamp rock, retro wave jazz and more

Albums Discussed

Dr John - Gris Gris
Honeymoon Suite - The Big Prize
Almagest - Under the Dome
Ritual Contrition - Hang the Moon
Warning - Warning
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Here Lies Man - No Ground to Walk Upon
Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid
Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme
Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

08/11/2021

New Episode
A look at some of the biggest names and forgotten heroes of the Canterbury Scene. An incredibly influential (see our kraut Jazz episode) regional movement from England that brought a heavy dose of jazz into the burgeoning prog scene.

Albums Discussed
Soft Machine - Volume II
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Khan - Space Shanty
Gong - You
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Hatfield & The North - The Rotters’ Club
Henry Cow - Unrest
The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
Matching Mole - Matching Mole
Egg - The Polite Force
Quiet Sun - Mainstream
Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

01/11/2021

New Episode

The first (of at least 2) looks at the power thrash scene of the early ‘90s. Focusing on 1990-1993 we do a deep dive into one of the least talked about mutations of thrash metal and one that never really had a chance to flourish.

Albums Discussed
Osiris - Futurity and Human Depressions
Realm - Suiciety
Reverend - World Won't Miss You
Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude
Morgana Lefay - Symphony of the Damned
Dofka - Toxic Wasteland
Forte - Stranger than Fiction
Taramis - Stretch of the Imagination
Mystik - The Plot Sickens
Mathias Steele - Haunting Tales of a Warrior's Past

28/10/2021

New to the Feed

Episode 0

I’m caught up on editing so I was finally able to go back and edit our demo/audio test episode from the middle of last year. A little different format wise than what the show ended up being but hopefully it’s enjoyable despite the rawness of the audio and the (mostly) depressing subject matter.

25/10/2021

New Episode

A look back at the extremely influential but too often ignored Italio Disco movement. Despite the name this scene took influence not only from Disco but from funk, space rock, early electronica, AOR and more. It would influence many later European dance musicians and it’s keyboard soaked legacy can still be heard in many modern retro-synth revival projects.

Albums
Selection - Selection
Ken Laszlo - Ken Laszlo
Pink Project ‎– Domino
Righeira ‎– Righeira
Koto - From the Dawn of Time
Sandy Marton ‎– Modern Lover
Hypnosis - Hipnosis
Gazebo - Gazebo
Fresh Color - Night Dreams
Ta**ra - Hills of Katmandu

20/10/2021

New to the Feed

A few months back we recorded an episode about rock operas. I accidentally recorded my audio with my laptop mic and it sounded like complete s**t. I’ve been trying to save it ever since. It still sounds pretty bad and we lost probably 45 minutes of content due to incomprehensible audio but at least it gave me an excuse to clumsily force a Thomas Ligotti reference into the episode title. Hope it’s at least tolerable.

Albums Discussed

Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Dreams in the Witch House - Dreams in the Witch House: A Lovecraftian Rock Opera
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Giraffe- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Mike Batt - The Hunting of the Snark
Randy Newman - Randy Newman’s Faust
Various Artists - Tommy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists - Jesus Christ Superstar
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy

17/10/2021

New Episode out now

Another Randomizer, this one a overstuffed episode focusing on some of the best metal we’ve heard from 2020 and 2021.

Albums Discussed

The Outsider - From Ancient Gods and Forbidden Books
Caelestra - Black Widow Nebula
Eternal Winter - Archaic Lore: Songs of Savage Swords and Dark Mysticism
mammothcaveburial - Wounds upon Wounds upon Wounds
Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, The Seas Above
Cthulhu - Hallucinations At The Mountains of Madness
Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed
Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys and Mountains

Afterbirth - Four-Dimensional Flesh
Dream Tröll - Realm of the Tormentor
The Ditch and the Delta - The Ditch and The Delta
Unto Others - Mana
Bedsore - Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus
Alarum - Circle's End
Humanity’s Last Breath - Välde

12/10/2021

A look back at the semi-forgotten Country Soul movement of the early 60s and 70s, when country singer songwriters began integrating influences from Soul and Gospel musicians. The genre coincides with the Southern Soul movement (which will be a separate episode) which saw many soul musicians begin to work influences from Country and Western into their sound.

Albums Discussed

Larry Jon Wilson - Let Me Sing My Song to You
Dan Penn - Nobody’s Fool
Jim Ford - Harlan County
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Eric Quincy Tate - Eric Quincy Tate
Mike Finnigan - Mike Finnigan
Lonnie Mack - The Hills of Indiana
Don Nix - Living by the Days
Rob Galbraith - Nashville Dirt
Daniel Moore - Daniel Moore

04/10/2021

New Episode

An (almost) definitive look at the UK Grebo scene of the late 80s and 90s.

Gaye Bykers on Acid - Drill Your Own Hole
The Bomb Party - Drugs
Carter The Unstoppable S*x Machine - 30 Something
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
EMF - Schubert Dip
Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble
Senseless Things - The First of Too Many
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis
Crazyhead- Desert Orchid
Scum pups - Sonic Sculptures
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction - Tattoed Beat Messiah
Pop Will Eat Itself - This is the Day...
Jesus Jones - Liquidizer
The Family Cat - Furthest from the Sun
Mega City 4 - Tranzophobia

26/09/2021

New Episode(s)

A look back at the glory days of the New Jack Swing movement.

Albums Discussed

Collin England - Colin England
Bernadette Cooper - Drama According to Bernadette Cooper
Jeff Redd - A Quiet Storm
Samuelle- Living in a black Paradise
Christopher Williams - Changes
Guy - Guy
Keith Sweat - I'll Give All my Love
Tony! Toni! Toné! - Sons of Soul
Babyface - Tender Lover
New Edition - Heart Break

Also forgot to upload the bonus episode Wednesday so there’s also a small continuation of last weeks Randomizer featuring:

Soft Kill - Choke
Black Moon Mother - Illusions Under the Sun
Isgherurd Morth - Hellrduk
Vaginal Discharge - Froth

Shuffle. Repeat.