Best surprise of the week: An unreleased Last Splash-era Breeders song has hit the internet. It’s a loping burner good enough to have made the OG tracklisting. The beautiful sound of the Deal sisters’ voices make me want to move to Ohio and start delivering pizzas. Not an uncommon impulse for me.
AyooLii really laced the track here: wild keyboard trills and RPG violins all over the place. Sounds like someone did a bounce remix of James Ferraro circa Far Side Virtual. Music for sneaking around on your tippy toes.
Salute’s recent Essential Mix has a bit more get-up-and-go than your usual lo-fi house kind of thing, which might be the Manchester in the man. This track from a few months ago escapes the dreaded "mid" classification by way of some mild big beat flourishes and a nice synth lead. It’s almost good enough to be played at one of those "student discos” British people sometimes talk about derisively.
Snooper "Live at Punk Rock Flea Market, Murfreesboro, TN 4/15/2023"
Dating the genre back to The Coneheads and not Devo, is Snooper third-generation egg punk? I’ll probably have to do a guide to egg punk at some point; I assume the majority of you readers rightly have more important priorities in life than knowing what the fuck I’m talking about. Here is what I will say: I heard rumors that Third Man Records tried to sign The Coneheads. They weren’t able to. Now it’s seven or eight years later and the label has successfully scooped up Snooper, who play a polished Nashville-style take on the genre. This set is good from beginning to end, with all those puppets, props, and sample interludes. 30 minutes of fun-lovin’ art punk.
Busta Rhymes (Feat. Bia) "Beach Ball"
I need to hear “Beach Ball” blasting out of a Jeep Wrangler Sport with the tube doors. You know?
MIX OF THE WEEK: PC Music "10"
I’ll never forget the feeling I got the first time I heard "Bipp" by SOPHIE and "Pink and Blue" by Hannah Diamond. It was a rare feeling—the feeling of hearing something new. That same year, Sicko Mobb dropped "Fiesta." What was in the water? Anyway, it’s now ten years later and PC Music has called it quits. I’m no hyperpop historian, but it’s safe to say that it was an important label.