Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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Toadcast #313 - The Outofdatecast
So many of the songs on this week's podcast should really have been played at the very least six months ago that, honestly, it's just a little bit embarrassing. Some of these came from emails which got utterly buried in my inbox, some from things that I kept intending to feature, only to realise that I had accidentally allowed months to pass without doing so, and others I simply didn't get the chance to even read until the January lull.
That's fine of course, I know none of you come here to be on the very cutting edge of the cutting edge, but some sort of vague punctuality would be nice wouldn't it. Given that, as we discovered last week, jokes have to automatically stop being funny once more than ten people have posted them to Facebook, I assume you probably have to stop enjoying songs now by the time they are three months old or so.
There also seems to be a weird preponderance of all-caps bands. I know that's quite the thing these days, just as no-one ten years ago would even bring themselves to glance at a capital letter, but still, I find it unnerving. Do they care that much? Can I ignore it? Or do they hate it when people spell it like a normal word? Oh my god the anxiety.
Anyway, fuck it, tunes.
01. BETS - Don't Give a Fuck (00.10)
02. FURS - An Eye on the Vicious (05.07)
03. Strange Lords - Szandora (12.13)
04. Heavy Drag - Tissue (15.29)
05. Body Cheetah & Messed Up Coyote - Shawty (22.32)
06. Grubs - Dec. 15 (26.25)
07. The Muppets - Happiness Hotel (28.53)
08. TRAAMS - Teeth (34.12)
09. Songdog - A Life Eroding (So Much Sorrow) (44.35)
10. Clem Snide - The Ballad of Saint Paull (49.07)
11. ULTRAS - This is Where I Fall (55.52)