If you haven't been to a Gobble Gobble show yet, you don't know that the insistence to take off your clothes is actually meant to keep you from ruining them with sweat.
Seriously, Sunday night’s 99 Sevens show, featuring Gobble Gobble’s glow-in-dark single Becoming Legion, was out of this world. There is a whole new thing in Edmonton right now, and it is completely fucking awesome.
- “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″ – Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony
- Naturally, though, we start with a sad song. This is supposedly about Janis Joplin. I just love the last line, “I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, /
that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.” That’s either depressingly honest or a really dickish thing to say, but either way, kudos. - “Lawn Knives” – Gobble Gobble, Lawn Knives 7″
- This actually gets even better live, with two guys hammering on each others’ helmets for percussion, and CJ Frena doing his rabid butterfly thing. Don’t miss them next time they return. - “God Only Knows” – PDF Format, Building Blocks Singles Club Vol. 1
- This song does not get any worse the more I play it - “Owl Eyes” – Pop Winds, The Turquoise
- Go check out a double shot of the brilliant Arbutus Records label next Monday at Wunderbar. You won’t be sorry. - “Hans Kruger” – Kumon Plaza ft. The Joe & Franny, Cliff
- As long as you’re cool with feeling like you’ve done nothing with your life, you should definitely go download this 16-year-old’s record for free - “Less Than Thrilled” – Love is All, Two Thousand and Ten Injuries
- These guys do naïve-with-an-edge really well - “Walk in the Park” – Beach House, Teen Dream
- While I’m engaging in shameless self-promotion, let me just say I still think this is one of the albums of the year
- “A Token of Gratitude” – The Radio Dept., Clinging to a Scheme
- Sometimes things just need to get a little moody. Though the Swedes are usually better at sunny. Or at least wry. - “Last Year’s Disco Guitars” – Bishop Morocco, Bishop Morocco
- “Tonight Was A Disaster” – Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Daytrotter Session
- A cut from Casiotone’s brilliant Daytrotter session. There’s a lot of bare-bones gems in that back catalogue. - “Jump Kid” – It Kills, It Kills
- Still more moody music, this time from Halifax - “The Walker” – Gayngs, Relayted
- These guys technically have 23 members, but c’mon, there can’t possibly actually be a need for that many people, can there? Unless you need, like, 14 or so Bez/Flavor Flav vibes/hype men - “Don’t Become The Thing You Hated” – Destroyer, Your Blues
- I have this thing for songs that don’t have more than one or two lines, repeated ceaselessly. One day I might do a whole show around them. - “Sweet Thing” – Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
- Oh, c’mon, he’s coming to town, we might as well
thanks for this mix, fellas.