[Weekly Mix] 2022.12(3)

These Are The Good Old Days

Spin Cycle
 
It’s been a long time since you washed your clothes. The pile of laundry in your bedroom creeps further towards you every time you hurl another sweat-filled sock at it. Two, three weeks now? Excuses keep flowing. 
 
‘I don’t have time.’ 
‘Fabric softener is too expensive.’  
‘Those pants can be reused.’
 
You shouldn’t reuse pants. You know you shouldn’t reuse pants. 
 
A month of non-washing passes and it becomes too much. Some of your family aren’t talking to you anymore. Your partner’s eyes are starting to wander. Even your milkman has shunned you. 
 
You do the right thing - book a half-day off work - and do some laundry. 
 
Click goes the door of the washing machine and it’s off. You stand back, impressed with yourself. 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
Slowly at first, a warm feeling of bliss starts to grow and envelope the soul. 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
Gone is the nausea! Ridden are you of the guilt, the embarrassment, the social pariah-status! 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
 
Round and round and round, it goes.

Bag Of Cans - Spin Cycle

Taken from the 10-track album 'The Swiss Army on Matinée Recrdings: https://shop.matineerecordings.com/products/northern-portrait-the-swiss-army

The Swiss Army

Pool Cue Vigilante

Northern Portrait - Pool Cue Vigilante

"Jersey Soccer" by Bloomsday
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Bloomsday - Jersey Soccer

Def Sup

Abalone

Stomach

Mana Takatāpui

Punk pariahs, Drastic//Automatic, exert themes of senseless violence, frustrated frenzy and parody on their monstrous third single, ‘The Cup Final’. 

The band’s third single, self-described as an ‘anti-anthem’, satirizes football culture and celebratory concepts associated with the punishing nature of the sport. Overloaded with pejoratives and dismay surrounding the greed of modern football, the track highlights the absurd anger of football fans and social attitudes towards the backwashed corporate heist of the ‘beautiful game’. Listeners embark on a gruelling early morning warm up, entering a world of uproar and revelry, as if stepping into a volcanic football stadium.

The Cup Final

"To Decide" by Caution
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To Decide

Caution - To Decide

Sexo Fender (Cenicero)

Againiam

Following up their *very* well-received 2021 self-titled debut album, Chime School are back with more perfect pop, this time on the most pop of formats, the 7" single. "Coming To Your Town" was recorded while sick with COVID and rather fittingly is a feverish attempt to describe the reactionary political moment that seemed to infect the Bay Area during the pandemic. Leave it to Chime School to pen a classic 12-string jangle pop tune about the breakdown of civil society. It's not all cats and motorbikes chez Chime School! On the flip side we have the band's lovely Brighter/Field Mice-esque take of Buzzcocks' "Love You More." Originally released on the Oakland Weekender Buzzcocks covers cassette, it's available on vinyl here for the first time.

Coming To Your Town

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Chime School - Coming To Your Town

Lyrics:
She's just like a dream
I had when I was young
My head stays floating
Up in the sky 
Above the clouds
We figure it out
Just like we always do
When we are out and about
And it's just me and you

I wanna be
On the dance floor with my girl
Cutting a rug til' they cut us off
Lighting cigs inside like it's 2005
Downstairs at Favorite's 
Before they shut it down
Out with my girl all night
At every dive bar in this town

I get insecure
When I wake up without her
I know some may say
That that is not O-K-A-Y
But I don't mind
I know just what I like
And how I spend my time
And it's just me and you

I wanna be
On the dance floor with my girl
Cutting a rug til' they cut us off
Lighting cigs inside like it's 2005
Downstairs at Favorite's 
Before they shut it down
Out with my girl all night
At every dive bar in this town

Every dive bar

I wanna be
On the dance floor with my girl
Cutting a rug til' they cut us off
Lighting cigs inside like it's 2005
Downstairs at Favorite's 
Before they shut it down
Out with my girl all night
At every dive bar 

I wanna be
On the dance floor with my girl
Cutting a rug til' they cut us off
Lighting cigs inside like it's 2005
Downstairs at Favorite's 
Before they shut it down
Out with my girl all night
At every dive bar 

Written by Mike Toohey
Produced by Mike Toohey and Kyle Downes
Mixed by Kyle Downes
Mastered by Ian Van Opijnen

Caution - To Decide

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