is it obvious it’s pre-recorded? is the immediacy not there? the timely social commentary a bit off-kilter, like a psychic trying desperately to train focus? no matter — it’s all been prepped & ziplocked for your listening pleasure. Robert Palmer once said “maybe it’s live.” well maybe it’s not. new Ubu & NE-HI, some shrinking Oakland post-punk and some fatalistic Detroit post-punk. Brainiac lives!
Shopping — The Hype / The World — Hot Shopper / NE-HI — Rattled and Strange / The Church — A Face in a Film / Luna — Most of the Time / Luna — A Place of Greater Safety / Pere Ubu — Funk 49 / Brainiac — V1nc3nt Com3 On Down / Protomartyr — Caitriona / Hard Girls — Camera / Haunted Summer — Every Step / The Liminanas — Istanbul is Sleepy (feat. Anton Newcombe) / Holiday Ghosts — Walk for Hours / The Go-Betweens — I Just Get Caught Out / Peter Matthew Bauer — Full Moon in the Sky / Ted Leo — Moon Out of Phase