A weekend mix for ya. Listen to The Goods playlist, featuring Liam Benzvi's new track "Other Guys" and tracks from: Leah Rando, Croatian Amor, and Katy Pinke. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/thegoods.OFP
In The Basement: The Black Keys
We don’t have to sell y’all on Rubber Factory, but damn if it doesn’t stay cool. In Pitchfork’s 2004 review they said the album was “revitalizing the essence” of blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Nearly 20 years later, true and tried, The Black Keys authentic endeavor hits a note no other band has come near.
We’ll break it down real easy for millennials: Southern California.
The Bait Shop. Early 2000s. Two tall lanky guys sporting slim American Apparel tees on stage. They’re playing “Girl Is On My Mind” while Ryan tracks down Marissa and some drugged out, possessive dingus.
For Gen-Z: we don’t have an equivalent cultural reference, but we’re pretty sure you’ll feel like your truest, sweetest romantic self to “The Lengths.”
Hear select tracks from Rubber Factory —an album with something for everybody — on In The Basement, our weekly update of back catalogue tunes. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP
Dev Hynes is featured on Liam Benzvi’s latest drop “Other Guys,” an exploration of solitude and companionship, self-rediscovery, being sexual and knowing your preferences. Directed by Luca Venter, the video gives voice to a constant cradling act New Yorkers know well —— the one between meandering independence and intimate community. Full album out 9/27. Watch full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuraRnmWXUY
In The Basement: Lightning Bug
"Underneath the record’s enveloping shoegaze swoon, these quiet musings bring us close enough to feel the vulnerable intimacy of its creation. A Color of the Sky is the New York group’s most direct and fully rendered work to date: a beautiful collection of songs paying direct homage to the dreamy atmospheres, curling synthesizers, and blown-out guitars of slow-burning art rock and blistering shoegaze greats: Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, the Stone Roses. Yet Lightning Bug re-imagine this canon in the context of an entirely new plot. Like Creation Records fan fiction, a ’90s 4AD reboot, or a shoegaze memoir, A Color of the Sky builds upon a familiar palette, reconfiguring foundational sounds in order to reexamine them."
Mellow out and go inward with our weekly In The Basement playlist: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP . This week’s feature is none other than Lightning Bug; the excerpt above is from Pitchfork.
Honeyglaze filmed a live session of their new single 'DON'T'.
Honeyglaze filmed a live session of their new single 'DON'T'. Watch the full set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7BErUou9HU
Produced and Directed by James Ogram
Production Company - Cosydrive Pictures
Director of Photography - Mike Pain
Camera Operators - TShaw, Mike Pain and Lewis Nicholls
Editor - James Ogram
Audio Engineer - Syd Kemp
Audio Produced by Yuri Shibuichi
In The Basement: Robert Belfour
Love ain’t always patient and it sure ain’t kind. Robert Belfour knew it; he knew love as good as anybody else. His last penny spent, he’d still follow a woman who’d tossed his clothes away. “What’s Wrong With You” pines for a lover who’s done him some wrong and some right just like a lot of blues songs, but Robert’s got a calmness. Other bluesmen get aggravated or rundown, but Robert Belfour is rock solid and steady. As they say, a good man is hard to find.
Hear Robert Belfour’s 2000 release “What’s Wrong With You” featured on our updated In The Basement playlist. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP
Video credit from the user counterlucid on YouTube.
The Goods Playlist Featuring Dutch Interior
Forget your date because this playlist is your destiny. Peep our updated "The Goods" playlist featuring Dutch Interior, Georgia Gets By, Ira Glass, and Borough Council. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/thegoods.OFP
Here’s a look back at KEXP’s feature of Temples “Certainty” back when it was released in ‘16. We’ve added some songs from their album Volcano to this week’s In The Basement playlist. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP
“Temples are masters at crafting layered psychedelic rock that could convince even the sharpest ear that they were listening to a band from the 60's. And while that is enough to please many psych-rock aficionados, Temples is far more than pure tribute to a past age. The group finds sparseness within their layers of sound, accenting festive melodies that are hammered home by lead man James Bagshaw's floating vocals. Temples seemingly had their sound perfected on 2014's Sun Structures, but two years after their debut, they have reemerged riding a wave of synth, proving that nothing is perfect. Song of the day "Certainty" is the first single since Sun Structures and quite likely the first taste of Temple's forthcoming album. The track, which heavily features synths along with the booming drums and wandering riffs Sun Structures was crawling with, improves on an already winning recipe. Where Sun Structures tracks seemed to pick out and isolate melodies from the dense pool of sound, "Certainty" uses a duet of synthetic and analogue sonics to unify, providing a coherent frolic through a psychedelic soundscape.”
Dutch Interior Live at Braindead Studios
“so good. dutch interior stocks going up. awesome job.” @saulhernandez1772 of The YouTube Comments Section. Hear the boys live from their sold out show at Brain Dead Studios. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/YrDA-7P0EPI
X's new song 'Big Black X' drops at midnight est
X's new song 'Big Black X' drops at midnight est / 9pm PST. Tune in and watch the music video with us. Album pre-orders begin tomorrow at 9:00am EST. https://x.ffm.to/bigblackx.OFP
Sun’s high in the sky and you’re caked in sweat. Swipe your forearm by your forehead, everything gets sweatier. Your brow’s narrowed like doin’ that’ll help you see past the loosie tucked between your lips. That loosie’s laughing at you. Bless your heart, she don’t bother ya one bit. You’re focused. Feeling good. Might gonna go and f**k it all up. Gonna be fully fueled up when you do though, won’t bother you one bit.
More reckless than R.L. and not as country as Jelly Roll Kings, nobody did it quite like Paul “Wine” Jones. Nobody ever will. Not a hint of neuroses on that man, he had fervor like today’s crowd can’t queue up for a few chords. He didn’t play from his bones, fingertips, or deep down belly. Jones’ blues came crashing out of his joints. Cranked out a euphony of blues, rock, funk (a la an inner punk).
There ain’t a song on “Pucker Up Buttercup” we wouldn’t recommend, but we whittled it down and added a couple to our In The Basement playlist. We update it every week, so follow along & God keep y’all. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP
Dutch Interior's "Ecig" Out Now
The music video for “Ecig” from Dutch Interior is out everywhere. Watch ‘er now and stay posted for more soon from our latest signing. Watch full video here: https://dutchinterior.ffm.to/ecig.OFP
The Goods
We here at Fat Possum don’t know much. But we never been accused of being unknowledgeable about Fridays or Saturdays. Sundays are a different story. Here’s what we get down to sometimes. Featuring: Liam Benzvi, Triage, and etta97. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/thegoods.OFP
“The communal spirit lives on. The nature of this music is the expanding joy and its danceable nature – it’s no wonder others want to get in on the act. Notable collaborations on this record come from punk-rock legend Iggy Pop, as well as South London grime artist Elf Kid. At the beginning of ‘Sahara’ is Iggy Pop shouting a somewhat unnecessary “We’re going to the Sahara, baby”, before half-singing, half-speaking “It’s a genuine culture / No Kentucky-fried chicken.” It’s a ridiculous line, made all the more prominent with it being one of the record’s very few lines in English, but you have to imagine it all being said with a smile, from Iggy and the band alike. The track is saved by a wonderfully incessant guitar groove which breaks down into a cutting psych-rock jam, heralded by a funk which resonates throughout the record, continuing with no sense of stopping through slower numbers like ‘Hometown’ and ‘One Colour’, where even a children’s choir doesn’t diminish from the undeniable groove of this band.”
In 2017 Songhoy Blues released their debut album “Résistance” to glowing reception (Drowned in Sound review excerpted above). Not many groups make it to the American market from West Africa and even fewer make it out of a war-torn Mali, but these guys are musicians of the utmost degree whose message of defiant positivity translates across geographical boundaries. We’ve added Songhoy Blues to our In The Basement playlist. Head over there for a listen & follow the playlist for next week’s back catalogue feature. Listen here: https://fatpossum.ffm.to/inthebasement.OFP
It's been one week since Liam Benzvi dropped "Dust." Pre-order '...And His Splash Band' now via link in bio.
The Goods
We don’t pick favorites, except for once a week when we feature an artist on The Goods, our Spotify playlist featuring our current roster. Catch a mellow vibe into your weekend, this week we’re featuring Trevor Powers Youth Lagoon and it’s giving quiet liberty. Link in bio.
“He was as likely to show up with a gun as a guitar. His life was largely spent trying to outwit & evade authority, wrapping himself in a bolt of self-destruction.” Jerry McGill DVD “Very Extremely Dangerous” available on our web store. Link in bio.
Watch Honeyglaze’s new music video
Watch Honeyglaze’s new music video for their latest single ‘Don’t,’ from their sophomore album, “Real Deal.” Out September 20th.
Credits:
Written, Directed and Produced by James Ogram
Production Company: Cosydrive Pictures
Cinematography by Mike Pain
1st AD: Iona Rae
1st AC: Kieran Poynter
Gaffer: Sam Cheal
Runner: Patrick Fitzgerald
Edited by James Ogram
Colour by Liam Van Rooyen
BTS Photography: Jack Lovekin
MUA: Brodie Mayhew
MUA Assistant: Megan Goram
