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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.

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 Intercourse
Dirty White Boy - Bad Reputation
White Trash - White Trash
Junkyard - Junkyard
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire

A (sort of) sequel to our last episode. We look at modern ladies honing their songwriting craft, with an emphasis on the bleak and depressing side of life. Though occasional moments of hope do shine through

Albums Discussed
Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Frida Hyvönen - Dream of Independence
Emily Jane White - They Moved In Shadow All Together
Mariee Souix - Gift for the End
Angel Olson - My Woman
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

**Apologies for the poor audio quality on this, and the next 2 or 3 episodess*

Further explorations of the singer songwriter scene of the lates 60's and early 70's. This time focused soley on offerings from the fairer sex.

Albums Discussed

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

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)

A look back at the early(ish) days of the Midwestern Emo scene and some of the bands that took an equal amount of influence from other burgeoning punk based music scenes. 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

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

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

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

We take a look back at the long tradition of Christmas music. From the Byzantine Empire to Modern reinturpretations of Celtic folk songs.

Albums Discussed

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

A look back at some of our favorite albums from the 80's Sophisti-pop movement, plus a small bonus segment discussing 5 underheard albums from the same scene.

Albums Discusses
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

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, and a degree of experimentation that has since been 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 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