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Woodhouse InterviewsBaths - Gut: Woodhouse InterviewsSupplication offers a path.Christianity, heteronormativity, they promise a program. Follow us, do not question, and you will be rewarded. What happens when you stray?That’s a core question behind Baths. Will Wiesenfeld’s electronic project has asked it again and again, especially on 2013’s brilliant Obsidian. And the uncertainty has come roaring back on his newest Gut. Gut refers to Wiesenfeld’s promise to act instinctually while crafting the album, allowing impulses to direct the music. And that’s clear from the throbbing beat on “Eden” (which is about having sex with an angel) or the...2025-04-0240 min
Woodhouse InterviewsMatt Elliott: Woodhouse InterviewsGhosts litter Drinking Songs. The damned drowned, dying soldiers, innocents packed onto a train before it explodes; there’s not a note on Drinking Songs that isn’t haunted. Released 20 years ago this year, Drinking Songs marked a foundational shift in Matt Elliott’s life. He abandoned his work in the drum & bass group Third Eye Foundation and found a different way to pedal dread. Elliott composed using a morass of phantom vocals, nylon guitar, off-kilter piano, wailing horns, and a pervasive sense of doom. His vision was a dour bar in some Eastern European barony, where the pa...2025-03-2534 min
Woodhouse InterviewsTarta Relena: Woodhouse InterviewsThe voice is an instrument. The voice is the narrative. Flipping between at least four different languages, and darting across each others’ vocal ranges, Catalan duo Tarta Relena offer a confounding, exhilarating version of vocal-focused music. Drawing from Gregorian chant, autotune forays, and Drum & Bass, their newest album És pregunta, could’ve been a total mess, but Helena Ros Redon and Marta Torrella i Martínez’s strident voices serve as an awe-inspiring, unshakeable foundation. We talked to them below. 2025-02-2531 min
Woodhouse InterviewsTrust Fund: Woodhouse InterviewsWe open by discussing an Irish goodbye vs a French exit.
The phraseology is different but the outcome is the same; “Leaving the Party Early.” The first song on Trust Fund’s excellent Has it Been A While? and a perfect introduction to the introspection, paradoxes, and uncertainty all coming from a core human experience: terrified of being known, and knowing that’s the only way to be loved. Trust Fund ringleader Ellis Jones’ dexterous guitar work follows him through philosophical discussions entwined with urban decay and never ending construction. It’s easy enough to agree with Nietzsche wh...2025-01-1324 min
Woodhouse InterviewsAhmed, With Love. Woodhouse InterviewWrestler, rapper, world champion, pharmacist.
Ahmed, With Love. might have the strangest resume of any MC alive. The Dublin-based rapper has joined a growing throng of Irish artist embracing a colorful, playful wave of hip-hop, influenced by ‘90s rap greats, but also a smattering mix of Brazilian beats, electronic silliness, and rave euphoria. We talked to him below. 2025-01-0727 min
Woodhouse InterviewsSanje: Woodhouse InterviewsCan you have a pleasant haunting?
Sanje thinks so. “You can be Casper!” he says with a laugh. The lead single from his stunning debut, De Repente Otra Vez, is “Buen Fantasma,” the story of a long lost soul following those it once loved. But Sanje doesn’t envision any Paranormal Activity shenanigans, instead, this phantom wants to dance, hug, and watch over those it was connected to. It’s a lovely thought, paired with a slamming Cumbia beat and a triumphant trombone-lead hook. Plucking influences from the warmest, most analog days of progressive-rock, Salsa flirtations, and pure pop ple...2024-12-1929 min
Woodhouse InterviewsLifter: Woodhouse InterviewsIt’s autumn, and everything has changed.
Band members come and go, songs mutate, the seasons shift. There’s an acceptance, both in title and general mood, for Clasping Hands with the Moribund, another entry into the U.K.’s recent salvo of excellent folk-rock. And as these prog-infused songs suggest, acceptance through art is one of the few ways to survive meteoric changes. We talked to Lifter below. 2024-12-1832 min
Woodhouse InterviewsScott Orr: Woodhouse InterviewsAlbums are not usually conversations.
Or if they are, they’re pretty one way. Not so for Scott Orr’s Miracle Body, a deeply comforting slice of jazz, new age, and sophisti-pop that melds together into one of 2024’s most welcoming records. With his fluttering falsetto Orr ushers us in, sits us down, and offers tea and conversation. We talked to him below. 2024-12-1331 min
Woodhouse InterviewsChris Acker: Woodhouse InterviewsDumbasses, gimmick peddlers, conmen coned by their own bosses dot Famous Lunch.
Chris Acker isn’t depressed, he’s just disappointed. And his sighing country tunes, tasteful pedal steel and all, just need a nap. From the surprisingly pretty letdown “Shit Surprise,” to the deeply confused self-reflection “Don't You Know (Who I Think I Am),” Acker uses a rouges gallery as a mirror, a warped perspective that’s occasionally clarifying, often baffling. We talked to him below. 2024-12-0240 min
Woodhouse InterviewsSangre de Muerdago: Woodhouse InterviewSinging at the edge of the world.
Staring into the cold Atlantic, watching the waves crash all around, and seeing only the pale blue of the horizon must be sublime. And sublime in its original meaning, something that invokes awe with a touch of terror. There are few moments that remind humans of their smallness like staring into the void of the sea. Sangre de Muerdago aims to grasp that feeling with every release. Using a fusion of traditional instruments and folk-stories from their native Galicia, the band replicates the feeling of sailors from a past time...2024-11-0127 min
School Success Podcast#143, Nathan Stevens on Building a Bible-Centered School"𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜." - Nathan Stevens, Head of Immanuel Christian School
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Woodhouse InterviewsAnd So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna: Woodhouse InterviewsIs “crushing joy” a thing?
That’s the only way I can describe And So I Watch You From Afar and, especially, their newest album Megafauna. There are few bands as loud as the Belfast boys, but the chords that fall down like an Everest avalanche are all major, the electrifying guitar lines soar and crunch with equal ferocity. Megafauna is getting punched in the face and smiling. But that’s what ASIWYFA have done their entire careers. What this record truly does is balance the difference between their moments of miraculous joy and all out brawls. Two part...2024-10-1140 min
The Leadership Vision PodcastBuilding Positive Team Culture Using Agile Principles with Dennis StevensSend us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, we sit down with Dennis Stevens, an enterprise Agile coach and founder of OrgWright with 30 years of experience. We discuss the evolving relevance of Agile principles and practices, particularly in the context of the post-pandemic business world. The conversation explores the difference between superficial Agile practices and fostering true team coherence and adaptability. Dennis shares insights on creating effective teamwork conditions, reflecting on his experiences and lessons from the Agile community, the military, and transformational leadership. The discussion also addresses the challenges of c...2024-09-2346 min
Woodhouse InterviewsPeter Oren-Cloud Song: Woodhouse Interviews“I wondered lonely as a cloud.” Emphasis on lonely.
Troubadour, vagabond, carpenter, folk-singer Peter Oren broke out in 2017 with his mythological heavy Anthropocene, with themes as crushing as his rumbling bass-baritone voice. Seven years on, Cloud Song finds him wrangling with both physical troubles and existential dread. In his view, the old Wordsworth poem can be played as an individual briefly drifting through life, untethered, for better and worse, from the earth. Beautiful and pensive, Oren’s Cloud Song lingers long after the first listen. We talked with him below. 2024-09-1849 min
SoundCheck FlixEpisode 58: Nathan Hubbard - "Logan's Run" (1976)Nathan Hubbard is drummer and composer know for his work with Rafter and Parker Meridien. Hubbard also runs a myriad of solo project, most notably Translation Has Failed and Skeleton Key Orchestra.
"Logan's Run" (1976): In the year 2274, Sandmen chase down "runners" in a domed society with limited resources & a life allowance of 30 years. Logan is a Sandman sent on a mission by his superiors to find the "sanctuary" the runners are seeking. Directed by Micheal Anderson. Starring Micheal York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov & Farrah Fawcett-Majors.
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Woodhouse InterviewsAnd So I Watch You From Afar: Woodhouse InterviewsAnd So I Watch You From Afar are as joyous as their name is ridiculous.
Like an energy drink being shoved into your soul. Like the world’s happiest mosh-pit. Like punching god in the face after climbing Mt. Everest. The ebullient drubbing produced by ASIWYFA has no musical comparison, just impossible physical feats that barely glimpse the improbability of this color-strewn noise.
Math-rock, post-rock, the labels don’t really matter. What the Belfast quartet has always done is extolled the brilliance of heavy music. Heavy music, albeit, with gratuitous major chords, chain-gang vocals and play...2024-08-2348 min
Woodhouse InterviewsKill Bill: Woodhouse InterviewThere are glitches in the system.
And Kill Bill’s one of them. The southern rapper is a founding member of the internet label/collective EXO music, popping up in the early 2010s with his gravelly, Lil Ugly Mane-esque flow.
But simple nerd-rap this ain’t. Using a kaleidoscoping mish-mash of references from N64 heydays to Matrix breakdowns, Bill explores mental illness, self-identity and the larger world of rap. So, listen to our interview, read our blurb on “RPG” and see why we think it’s one of the best of the 10s.
“I really lik...2024-08-2242 min
Woodhouse InterviewsJeff Rosenstock: Woodhouse Interviews“Dumbfounded, downtrodden and dejected/Crestfallen, grief-stricken and exhausted.”
All hail the king of anxiety. Pop-punk legend Jeff Rosenstock mutated his career for the…at least third time with a wallop of hyper-catchy, hyper-depressing albums. Anthemic to the core, POST- was the grandest of them all, a personal and political dissection in the wake of Trump’s election. No one gets out unscathed, especially not Rosenstock.
It’s hard too say if there’s hope ringing out of the album, but at the very least it’s one of the finest albums to scream along to this decade. S...2024-08-2229 min
Woodhouse InterviewsBraids: Woodhouse InterviewsA darkness lingers in the electronics
The stuttering hi-hats, bubbling synths and cascading keyboards all made for something beautiful, but tinged, at all moments, with an abyssal sorrow. Canadian trio Braids set out to explore the warped worlds of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada through their own rock background and crafted the gorgeous Flourish // Perish. But being locked up in a harsh Montreal winter and exorcizing Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s struggles with anxiety, gift the album a placid, entrancing surface with an ocean’s worth of unrest below. So listen to our interview with Braids, read our thou...2024-08-2248 min
Woodhouse InterviewsAlcest: Woodhouse Interviews“Listen to it at night, by the sea.”
These were Neige’s parting words to me. After a discussion of the colors, emotions and seasons that Alcest’s glorious Écailles De Lune runs through, his advice was to experience it in its natural habitat.
Metal has always been beautiful. Metallica’s “Fade to Black,” Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” Emperor’s “Into the Infinity of Thoughts,” metal has found glory both between and with crushing sections of doom. And Alcest tenderly weaves them all together in a grand tapestry. Écailles De Lune stands as the French outfit’s finest fusio...2024-08-2216 min
Woodhouse InterviewsIndaba Is: Woodhouse InterviewsBefore we even hit record, Siyabonga Mthembu is telling me a story.
It involves, in no particular order, a run in with London based jazz-wizard Shakaba Hutchings, a near clairvoyant café owner and a subway train filled with musicians, their instruments taking up more room than their bodies. Mthembu’s stories are like the music creates, sly, captivating and always on the edge.
Alongside composer Thandi Ntuli, Mthembu crafted the sprawling collective Indaba Is, a showcase of music from South Africa. Though often billed as a jazz release in media, the truth is much stranger. The...2024-08-2243 min
Woodhouse InterviewsRob Mazurek: Woodhouse InterviewsSomewhere in our conversation, Rob Mazurek mentions he wants listeners to “levitate” to his music. And, impossibly, I think he can pull it off.
The trumpet player, composer, synth-master, mole maker is also the leader of the Exploding Star Orchestra, a jazzy bunch of rabble rousers who’s most recent album, Dimensional Stardust, is as baffling as it is beautiful. It’s like looking into an ever tumbling kaleidoscope and the millions of shining particles suddenly spitting out a fully formed Monet. This is music of a joyous revelry and we chatted with Rob about it.2024-08-2237 min
Woodhouse InterviewsGood Looks: Woodhouse InterviewsIf you’re gonna get in a bar fight, better know who’s got your back.
Man fights self, god, society and whiskey on Good Looks’ debut Bummer Year. The Austin, Texas outfit are a cobbled together quartet of dudes from across the Lone Star State, each with stories of small towns filled with late-capitalism rot. Lead singer Tyler Jordan looks over his shoulder constantly, both to his past and trying to figure out who’s still following him through the brutality of service industry jobs, failed romance and political nihilism.
“My body could be put to bet...2024-08-2236 min
Woodhouse InterviewsCanary Room: Woodhouse InterviewsThe first noise we hear on Christine is a bird, chirping merrily away, like it’s warming up its voice. It’s apropos, considering the five tunes of naturalist meditation we’re about to embark on.
The EP from Portland-based songwriter Canary Room, aka Maddy Heide, is one of 2021’s small joys. Heide’s dexterous guitar work and fluttering voice puts her alongside the bare musings of Linda Perhacs or Sibylle Baier, but with her constant gestures at the natural world, with water springing forth in nearly every lyric, Christine is most at place not with other humans, bu...2024-08-2221 min
Woodhouse InterviewsAlonzo Demetrius: Woodhouse InterviewsFocus your rage.
Alonzo Demetrius certainly has. Tempered by his skill, genius and fiery trumpet playing, his righteous anger at the sprawling, cruel prison system of the United States has created a remarkable document. Live from the Prison Nation is an at turns, beautiful, eerie, disturbing, but always a powerful piece of activism. Drawing from the memories of his Uncle and Cousin who both served prison sentences, Demetrius and his band, The Ego, flow through the murky, Kafka-worth world of the carceral state, their expansive, ecstatic jazz matched by protest chants and sound bites from Angela Davis a...2024-08-2229 min
Woodhouse InterviewsFuubutsushi: Woodhouse Interviews“We have mad beef with the other four seasons”
Fuubutsushi have officially declared war on Vivaldi. The classical composer’s Four Seasons suite towers above most seasonal music as the foundational sonic document for spring, summer, fall and winter. But the jazz quartet, all speaking from different parts of the country seem assured, if not without a few giggles, that they’ll take over the pop cultural space for musical representations of the changing seasons. And they, at the very least, have the melodic skills to do it. Over the course of the pandemic, Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, M...2024-08-2241 min
Woodhouse InterviewsJaubi: Woodhouse InterviewsPeace. Freedom. Self-discovery.
These are the underlying themes of Nafs at Peace. Without a single word spoken on the album, it’s remarkably self-assured and self-evident in its truths. Created by Pakistani improvisational jazz outfit Jaubi, Nafs at Peace is one of the year’s most revelatory releases. Weaving together the threads of Hindustani classical music, hip-hop beats and spiritual jazz, the group has made a record as funky as it is healing. The connections between the ecstatic jazz of Alice Coltrane or Pharoah Sanders are less evident in the notes played, as Jaubi based these songs arou...2024-08-2223 min
Woodhouse InterviewsAlexia Avina: Woodhouse InterviewsWe don’t use the word “luster” enough.
We’ve pretty much relegated it to the shimmer of a pearl. But, from the album cover to the final track, Alexia Avina’s A Little Older, does shine with the luster of a pearl; beautiful, transfixing and harkening to nature.
The ever traveling musician has crafted one of the most propulsive ambient releases in recent memory, deftly combining indie-rock hooks with glitchy production and deep wells of mediative synths. Her crystal clear voice flips from a strident narrative focus to flittering choirs of harmonies on a dime. A Li...2024-08-2230 min
Woodhouse InterviewsKirin J Callinan: Woodhouse InterviewsTo make proper pastiche, it takes true love for what you’re taking the piss out of.
Anyone can rip off, it takes a disciple to poke fun and ascend simultaneously. And, miraculously, Australian pop prince Kirin J Callinan pilfered from EDM, country and ‘80s pop to create the silliest love letter of the 2010s. But, in the dark, beautiful corners of Bravado there is a wondrous vulnerability that casts all of Callinan’s prancing and crooning in a new light. This was a labor of exploration, debauchery and a reverent screed to the power of pop music...2024-08-2124 min
Woodhouse InterviewsElder: Woodhouse InterviewsEvolve or die.
Any rock band who’s had more than one successful album knows this. But the choice paralysis of just how many directions you could go often proves the death-kneel for many metalheads. Elder, when presented with this quandary, simply said “oh we’ll do all of it.”
From their early days of slab-like doom metal, there was always a mischievous quality to their music, just waiting to burst into flight. From album to album they indulged in bigger and surprisingly beautiful passages, making connections from Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath to Dvořák and Emer...2024-08-2134 min
Woodhouse InterviewsElori Saxl: Woodhouse InterviewsLife bubbles up beneath death.
The emergence of spring might have a sound for you. The rustling of robins, hushed winds blowing over freshly sprouting clover fields, but as winter’s grip loosens, something more elemental burbles. Composer Elori Saxl heard it from the shores of Lake Superior, the growing sounds of water flowing beneath thick sheets of ice. Under a surface of sheer stillness, life flowed.
Saxl took those sounds and made it the bedrock, both narratively and sonically, of her newest album The Blue of Distance. The manipulated sounds of water are the rh...2024-08-2136 min
Woodhouse InterviewsDisasterpeace: Woodhouse InterviewsDisasterpeace has a claim to being one of the most influential artists of the decade; in a quiet, chameleonic way.
Though Rich Vreeland doesn’t usually do things quietly. His best known work is awash in digital decay and thumping kick drums. The horror sensibilities of John Carpenter fed through a Super Nintendo. His industrial by way of chip tune aesthetic gained him praise in the blissful to terrifying fuzz of Fez and the insidious lurk of It Follows.
Vreeland’s absurd prolificness has now led him to full orchestral work as he scores Under the...2024-08-2122 min
Woodhouse InterviewsDarren Korb: Woodhouse Interviews (2)Every Supergiant Games release is an event.
But it’s not just from the gamers and critics who adore the video games’ rich stories, immaculate art style or addictive game play. It’s the music nerds that also wait with bated breath on Darren Korb’s newest score.
As Supergiant’s in-house composer and audio head, Korb has become a fixture unto himself with his compositions, from the Lead Belly meets Massive Attack thunk of Bastion to the Imogen Heap inspired Transistor soundtrack. But for Korb, and Supergiant as a whole, Hades might be the zenith. The gam...2024-08-2140 min
Woodhouse InterviewsDarren Korb: Woodhouse Interviews (1)Every Supergiant Games release is an event.
But it’s not just from the gamers and critics who adore the video games’ rich stories, immaculate art style or addictive game play. It’s the music nerds that also wait with bated breath on Darren Korb’s newest score.
As Supergiant’s in-house composer and audio head, Korb has become a fixture unto himself with his compositions, from the Lead Belly meets Massive Attack thunk of Bastion to the Imogen Heap inspired Transistor soundtrack. But for Korb, and Supergiant as a whole, Hades might be the zenith. The gam...2024-08-2155 min
Woodhouse InterviewsBaths: Woodhouse Interviews“Everything about that record is cursed.”
Will Wiesenfeld says that with a laugh, but it’s not really a joke. Obsidian, his second album under the name Baths, set off a brutal run of shows with a new collaborator, Morgan Greenwood, and electronic failures that seemed to have come from a witch’s hex.
But you could have gotten the cursed feeling just from the music. Obsidian is at once a dancy, electronic album and an uncompromisingly punishing listen. So hear our interview with Wiesenfeld, read our thoughts on Obsidian and see why it’s one of the...2024-08-2148 min
Woodhouse InterviewsYeasayer: Woodhouse InterviewsWhen I first saw Yeasayer, it was at an outdoor music festival in Houston—-in June.
If you’re from Texas, you know how horrific this is. It was 107 degrees when the Brooklyn boys took the stage. Front man Chris Keating sweated through every article of clothing he had, making the foot around him a salty splash zone. But it all made some sort of humid sense. Yeasayer, fresh off of the hallucinatory highs of their debut All Hour Cymbals had decided to dive into the pop deep end. But, as a band who traded in fever drea...2024-08-2150 min
Woodhouse InterviewsYazz Ahmed: Woodhouse InterviewsMiles Davis’ “Générique” floats in like he was blowing fog through his trumpet.
It’s a surreal, beautiful, late-night ode to the night itself and all its pain and delight. To stretch that feeling over an entire album, rather than three minutes, would be a Herculean task of skill and restraint. And yet, La Saboteuse exists.
Yazz Ahmed’s document of psychedelic, Bahraini-inspired Jazz feels and sounds like nothing else in its genre. In a decade that saw Jazz reborn and reimagined through the fertile chaos of Hip-hop, Minimalism, Afrobeat, Caribbean swing and Cuban rhythm...2024-08-2121 min
Woodhouse InterviewsTimbre: Woodhouse InterviewsWhere does a genre end?
Not when, as in, not when does a genre die. But where does our labeling regress into fetishism rather than anything helpful? Timbre is quite aware of the boundaries we place upon music and ourselves when dissecting sounds. The Nashville based harpist tours internationally on more traditional orchestral fair, but has also played with Jack White and avant-metal cuckoolanders The Chariot. With her album Sun & Moon she reached to explore the liminal space between any label. So listen to our interview with her, read our thoughts on Sun & Moon and hear why...2024-08-2149 min
Woodhouse InterviewsThou: Woodhouse Interviews“Ode to Physical Pain” is the exact title you’d expect a metal band to whip out at the end of an album.
But Thou are no nihilists. Hell, they don’t even like being called a metal band. “Ode to Physical Pain,” is, instead, the logical conclusion to the tortured, yet triumphant Heathen; a deep dive into the physical world, our interactions with nature and humanity’s base desires. No, this is far from fatalism; it is the least subtle reminder that you are alive. And it is a monstrous, wondrous thing. So, read our thoughts on Heathen, li...2024-08-2131 min
Woodhouse InterviewsSkyzoo: Woodhouse InterviewsA boy, a teen, a man, but one dream.
That’s the vision of A Dream Deferred. Skyzoo channels himself at 7, 15 and as a young man, daring the world to defy his ambition. Over some of the most lush production of the decade, Brooklyn becomes a character as much as an environment, breathing down Sky’s neck, threatening and encouraging in equal amounts. And in that cradle, Sky reflects on himself and celebrates Black excellence like few others could. So, read our thoughts on A Dream Deferred, listen to our interview with Skyzoo and hear why it’s one...2024-08-2144 min
Woodhouse InterviewsShigeto: Woodhouse InterviewsMichigan’s all-stars go from Barry Sanders to Danny Brown, Sufjan Stevens to Carol Wald.
But if Michigan was going to pick one rep, one person to be a synecdoche for the whole warped energy of the state, it might be Shigeto. Zach “Shigeto” Saginaw’s last name isn’t a reference to the Michigan town, it was a misspelling on Ellis Island scribbled into lore. And that sort of flux, of happy accidents and profundity stemming from the mundane inform his work. That and the rich history of musical life inherent in Michigan itself. So, read our though...2024-08-2139 min
Woodhouse InterviewsRav: Woodhouse InterviewsRap vagabond is about the only way to describe Rav.
The USSR-born, London-based, East Coast-terrorizing rapper is a man out of time and without a land. A founder of the internet only EXO label, Rav and his cohort met through the fertile grounds of Newgrounds, looking for fellow hip-hop heads who held Akira and Illmatic in equal reverence. Rav burst out in 2012 with the Hyperkinesis EP, a rambunctious, bratty collection of songs that only held a veneer of joy before diving into an ocean’s worth of sorrow.
In the three years after, Rav grew up...2024-08-2151 min
Woodhouse InterviewsPeter Matthew Bauer: Woodhouse InterviewsSo your famed indie-rock band, a staple of the 2000s, is breaking up.
Your influence is such that your own son plays your most famous song just to piss you off. What’s your response?
Well for Peter Matthew Bauer it was to hunker down in hotel rooms across Europe, demo like crazy, awash himself in his own mystic upbringing and craft Liberation! Though it might feel like a cheeky poke at The Walkmen to title your first solo record as such, Bauer looks for a deeper, more welcoming freedom. And that rings out across the...2024-08-2128 min
Woodhouse InterviewsPeter Oren: Woodhouse InterviewsPeter Oren is tired.
There’s a weariness associated with all bass-baritones. Something in that low-rumble and rust that radiates a sense of pleasant exhaustion. But for the abyssal voice of Oren, there are troubling questions that ripple through and weigh him down. Anthropocene takes a micro and macro view on a rapidly evolving world and Oren’s (and our) inability to keep up with the speed. And the ever growing specter of Climate Change follows him at every turn. The anxiety, doom and depression that clings to a possible dystopian future rings clear through his voice. And...2024-08-2135 min
Woodhouse InterviewsOlga Bell: Woodhouse InterviewsProper polymaths have one guiding principle: love every genre you explore.
And it’s clear from the first note of any Olga Bell album she’s dedicated to that rule. The classically trained pianist, electronic warlock and hip-hop connoisseur hasn’t found a sound she can’t warp and adore. At the beginning of the decade she toured with The Dirty Projectors and Chairlift and released Край an exceptionally ambitious project dedicated to the music of her native Russia.
But a wondering spirit like Bell gets bored and her next album, Tempo, was an ode to dance music...2024-08-2130 min
Woodhouse InterviewsNot An Airplane: Woodhouse Interviews“It’s easy to fall in love,” but is anything else easy?
Nick Shattell doesn’t think so. The paranoid, beautiful, rambling sprawl of It Could Just Be This Place rushes its way through decades of country music, detailing every hardship and heartbreak Americana loves to soundtrack. Yeah, falling in love is a piece of cake, but late night conversations with an obstinate god, growing old and getting your heart chipped away by the weight of the world, not so much. So what else could we do but dive in? Listen to our interview, read our thoughts on It Cou...2024-08-2121 min
Woodhouse InterviewsMister Goblin: Woodhouse InterviewsCasual, brutal contradictions fill up Mister Goblin’s mind.
From the forced cheer of “Holiday World” to the military discount at the fireworks store and the healing balm of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Que Sera Sera” soundtracking the depths of the pandemic, BUNNY, Mister Goblin’s newest album, lives with paradoxes. And that expands to the music, with bandleader Sam flipping from fluttering falsetto to soaring screams on a dime, while the instrumentation mutates from post-hardcore breakdowns to swelling country odes to Netflix and chillin’.
If it all sounds like too much, too ambitious, rest...2024-08-2125 min
Woodhouse InterviewsMoon Hooch: Woodhouse InterviewsSupposedly, the apocalypse will be rung in with horns.
But they won’t be horns like this, unless the rapture is truly rapturous. The 2010s showcased Moon Hooch’s evolution from studious Jazz disciples to rave-inducing dance barons. Using a “reverse DJ” set up, they filter their saxes, vocoders and another set of mad brass weapons that would make Cannonball Adderley smile, through Ableton, playing EDM with Jazz instruments.
And that crazed euphoria has translated well in their live shows and songs. At their best, Moon Hooch create a hallucinatory, out of body experience. So, listen t...2024-08-2123 min
Woodhouse InterviewsGrant Kirkhope: Woodhouse InterviewsGrant Kirkhope is the sound of your childhood.
Or at least the games he scored have that nostalgia swirling around. But even more impressively, Kirkhope isn’t a relic. Despite ushering in and crafting one of the most melodious eras of video game soundtracks in his time with producers Rare, Kirkhope is still pushing out hits. An architect who is ever at the forefront, Kirkhope is near unparalleled in stature and accomplishment. So listen to our interview with him and see why he’s one of the best of the 10s.
“I was forgetting the games...2024-08-2133 min
Woodhouse InterviewsRichard Dawson: Woodhouse Interviews“Softness” is a common insult in the modern age.
A declaration that most of us wouldn’t survive past eras of turmoil and torture, where the people were hardier damn it! But, as the unfortunate truth tells, even the most “hardy” people usually didn’t survive their respective ages. It wasn’t that long ago that all the gold or moral fortitude in a kingdom wouldn’t do jackshit against cholera.
And Richard Dawson would like to bring that to your attention. His cast of miscreants, prostitutes, beggars, merchants, kings and mystics all go through trials of inordi...2024-08-2147 min
Woodhouse InterviewsWhores. : Woodhouse InterviewsBurn your body, free your soul.
Metal, even at its most neanderthalic, has been about transcendence. The moment in the mosh where the flailing limbs start to resemble a larger pattern, the chaos in the wall of sound solidifies into coherence. And no one puts that duality to work like Whores. The Atlanta trio makes the meanest sludge-rock this side of The Melvins and their debut EP CLEAN was a brutal, yet smart opening salvo. So listen to our interview with them, read our thoughts on CLEAN and see why it’s the best of the 10s. ...2024-08-2143 min
Woodhouse InterviewsThe Blasting Company: Woodhouse InterviewsAnd we journey into the unknown. But what will they be singing there to greet us?
After listening and watching Over the Garden Wall, it’s still hard to explain. The Cartoon Network mini-series, turned cult classic to straight classic in a few short years, was a longing, autumnal elegy and tapestry of misremembered pasts. Flapper girls giggling along to shape note choirs, beastial operas ringing out over a jukebox, Chris Isaak smirking in the background. And The Blasting Company were our maestros, giddily skipping through time. So listen to our interview with them and see why Ov...2024-08-2140 min
Woodhouse InterviewsJon McKiel: Woodhouse InterviewsHex is wonderfully wrong.
Through a haze of fake nostalgia, warped tape loops and wayward saxophones, Canadian space cadet Jon McKiel has delivered an album as catchy as it is unnerving. The rhythm slinks and shudders underneath the hooky overtones. The guitar heroics of “String” unspool at impossible angles, “Everlee” sounds like a lost Byrds classic retrofitted with dread and song of the year contender “Hex” is Tom Waits’ “Clap Hands” turned into an R&B track. We talked to McKiel below. 2024-08-0717 min
Woodhouse InterviewsRhys Langston: Woodhouse InterviewsPolyglot, polymath, call Rhys Langston what you want—there’s a lot going on.
Multidisciplined and disciplinary LA mage Rhys Langston released a tightly wound and densely packed EP in Polyglot on Chloroform. It stuffs in as many ideas, scenes and bars as most double albums in a curt runtime. From the sludgy noir of "casino petit bourgeois” or the troubling soul of “still to this day,” Langston matches the fluttering, chameleonic production of Steeltipped Dove with grace. We talked with Rhys below.2024-07-2443 min
Woodhouse InterviewsGreg Foat: Woodhouse InterviewsI feel like I need to wear a suite while listening to The Fish Factory Sessions.
Luxury oozes from every note, whether it’s being radiated by Gigi Masin’s scrumptious synths or Greg Foat’s effervescent piano. But don’t mistake this for an overly stately affair. Warmth and giddy joy are core components of this album, and all of Foat’s work. The UK pianist has been working at an absurd clip, releasing album after album of mutated jazz and his own blend of ambient and electronic. We talked to him below. 2024-07-1122 min
Woodhouse InterviewsStorefront Church: Woodhouse InterviewsA man catches his reflection in the mirror and sees something wrong.
Storefront Church’s cinematic, maximalist music delights in mixing the surreal and the mundane, creating a pervasive sense of unease. Fitting, considering composer Lukas Frank was in a manic fugue state while writing the sprawling Ink & Oil. A score for an unseen film, Ink & Oil holds some of 2024’s most vibrantly beautiful moments, but there’s always darkness on the edge of town, nibbling at the edges. We talked to Frank below. 2024-07-0933 min
Woodhouse InterviewsK. Freund: Woodhouse InterviewsThe jazz club is slowly filling with laughing gas.
That’s the approximate experience of listening to K. Freund’s newest album Trash Can Lamb. Piano, sax and found sounds mingle with otherworldly noise, beamed in from a parallel dimension. Surreal, yet welcoming, the core of Freund’s work is a sort of Cheshire Cat joy, ever winking and ever fluttering away from reality. We spoke to him below. 2024-06-1726 min
Woodhouse InterviewsHannah Frances: Woodhouse InterviewsEverything is haunted.
Horror movie logic dictates that a death makes the haunting, a blood soaked basement, an insane asylum, take your pick. But the places most filled with death are also the most peaceful—within nature. The peat bog doesn’t exist without the passing of uncounted critters, trees can’t grow without corpses below them. The pact between death and life is stronger than we could imagine, it is only our own discomfort at their entwining reality that makes us uneasy. And that unease and unbreakable pact are at the center of Keeper of the Shephe...2024-05-3145 minWoodhouse InterviewsC. Diab: Woodhouse InterviewsAmbient and drone do not have to be calm.
In fact, C. Diab would prefer you to be overwhelmed. Not out of any sense of maliciousness, but on his newest album, Imerro, the flooding textures, bursts of horns and hypnotic passages are all created to craft ascension through stimulation. We talked with him below. 2024-05-2119 min
Woodhouse InterviewsFrail Body: Woodhouse InterviewsI went to two memorials that weekend.
I scattered my grandmother’s ashes in a bluebonnet patch and napped in bluebonnets myself before I consoled my step-brother after his mother passed. It weighed on me through the month—but was briefly lifted and crushed by Frail Body. At SXSW, just before the release of their new album, Artificial Bouquet, Frail Body ripped through the record. An unyielding exploration of grief, lead singer and guitarist Lowell Shaffer relives the loss of his own mother through the single most cathartic album made this year. We talked to them below. 2024-05-1043 min
Woodhouse InterviewsMinhwi Lee: WoodhouseThere’s a train waiting for you.
No clue where it’ll take you, how long the journey will be—but the train is there for you. And Minhwi Lee is your guide. The South Korean singer-songwriter reaches into a deep well of beauty and melancholy on her album 미래의 고향 Hometown to Come, reflecting Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Lee is searching for community, for home, in an ever changing world. We spoke with her below. 2024-05-0314 min
Woodhouse InterviewsSofia Freire: Woodhouse InterviewsExistentialism usually isn’t this catchy.
Nor are songs about Virginia Woolf, black holes and the process of the body destroying itself to create a new form. But Sofia Freire finds and tempers the horror and wonder of each subject with aplomb. The Brazilian multi-instrumentalist has made one of the finest progressive pop albums in recent memory on Ponta Da Lingua. And we talked with her below. 2024-04-1535 minWoodhouse Interviewsacloudyskye: Woodhouse InterviewsThe end of the world is bigger than love. But only by a little.
acloudyskye took the outsized sound, low end and emotions of EDM and, in his newest album, has paired them with scintillating indie-rock. The choruses rise to the rafters, even as the narrative of There Must Be Something Here descends into a post-apocalyptic world tinged with heartbreak. We chatted with Skye below. 2024-04-0430 min
Woodhouse InterviewsKnoll: Woodhouse InterviewsWe are haunted.
By what? We’re not supposed to know. Our past, our uncertain futures, ghosts of dead possibilities—all swirling in the background. Knoll summons but doesn’t exorcise them, it exercises them. The vicious Tennessee outfit engages in a fusion of metal styles that borders on outright warfare. The pitched sorrow of doom, the lacerating speed of grind and the drama of black metal all combine in their newest As Spoken. And we spoke to them below.2024-03-1931 min
Woodhouse InterviewsShallowater: Woodhouse InterviewsThere’s beauty in desolation.
Any drive through west Texas can teach you that. The sunlight is harsh, trying to dry and burn everything it touches. The trees are lonely sentinels, standing watch alone. But that alien landscape can conjure up the sublime through its emptiness. And Houston’s Shallowater evokes that hollowness well.
The trio plays a mix of ‘90s looking grunge with a twist of country and shoegaze. If you were ever into Denton cult heroes Lift to Experience, Shallowater’s ragged, psychedelic understanding of Texas music history will entice and hold you. We talke...2024-02-2224 min
Woodhouse InterviewsGumshoes: Woodhouse InterviewsThe tambourine player will usher in the apocalypse.
Or so hoped fictional punk band Cacophony. According to Gumshoes maestro and lore master Sam Sparks, the fake 9-piece band he created were the dregs of the ‘90s bands grabbing record label deals as cocaine-fueled executives desperately tried to find the next Nirvana. Cacophony (the album) follows the band in the aftermath of their implosion, each of them putting their faith in a new music avenue for deliverance, whether that be searching for cold hard cash, an alien abduction or summoning the rapture.
If that all sounds a...2024-02-1326 min
Woodhouse InterviewsIravu: WoodhouseIn HP Lovecraft’s The Outsider, madness comes from reflection, an understanding of the self. Iravu inverts the fear that made Lovecraft so detestable into acceptance. Through progressive, in all senses of the word, metal, Iravu soars through a sci-fi concept album that shreds with Van Halen-esque guitar solos over blistering drum fills. Acceptance through transcendence. We talked with Iravu below. 2023-08-2540 min
Woodhouse InterviewsTanjore Beauty/Chandan Narayan: WoodhouseWhat’s lost is found. And what’s found is beautiful.
Chandan Narayan has explored musical, natural and colonial history through 78s, the great discs of shellac that predated vinyl. His collections bring light and sound to an era of Carnatic music from southern India. There is a history here that’s rich as it is deep. We talked to Narayan below. 2023-07-1142 min
Woodhouse InterviewsConic Rose: WoodhouseSatisfying, but never self satisfied, Germany’s Conic Rose blend together a sumptuously smooth mix of nu jazz, electronica and lo-fi hip-hop that still never strays away from moments of startling virtuosity, or sudden left turns. The ever spiraling patterns of “Gleisdreieck” sigh into the cutesy bop “Heller Tag” while “Miranda” soars like suped up Arve Henriksen. Sexy, adventurous, comforting. 2023-06-2725 min
Woodhouse InterviewsArbor Labor Union: WoodhouseYonder; it’s over there somewhere.
Or over when, either way, it’s just ‘round the corner. There’s a pleasantly surreal implication to Yonder, the word, and Yonder, the album. The same could be said for the merry band of rabble rousers who gesture you yonder. Atlanta guitar gardeners Arbor Labor Union play rapid psych country like the Grateful Dead with a stopwatch, ripping through post-punk flavored twang. There’s no Cheshire Cat smirk to their reality-bending notions, just a grin and a high dive into a labyrinth of intwining guitars and dime-turn tempo shifts. So, let’s foll...2023-06-1629 min
Woodhouse InterviewsNyokabi Kariũki: WoodhouseLife is short. Recovery is long.
The peak of the COVID pandemic reduced most of us to a half-space, limbo between reality and absurdism. And those who dealt with the ravages of long COVID, their bodies thrown into flux by the longtail effects of the virus, feel even further into the liminal. Composer Nyokabi Kariũki contracted COVID, then felt her body stammer. Over months of recovery, her life came to a standstill, even as the world demanded she move forward. Endless emails, friends who no longer asked how she was doing, her own internal doubts all f...2023-06-0145 min
Woodhouse InterviewsMali Obomsawin: WoodhouseThere is a deep call, from the bottom of the river, from the gleaming brass of a trumpet, from the soul of a stand up bass. Mali Obomsawin has heard it and grasped it with both hands. The bandleader, singer, upright bassist and general polymath’s most recent album, Sweet Tooth, was a beguiling and haunting trek through free jazz freakouts, curdled hymns and unscripted beauty. Obomsawin is from the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, and the longing and reflection that shimmers out from Sweet Tooth reveals a lineage of genocide, colonialism and a slow death of wilderness. It’s no...2023-05-1228 min
Woodhouse InterviewsPerfect Angel at Heaven: WoodhouseFerociously catchy–or just plain ferocious? Indiana’s Perfect Angel at Heaven have cleaved off a fine slab of post-punk, with hints of jangle pop and post-hardcore embedded in their debut EP. The dueling strengths at the core of the work are the hard-edged, headknocking muscle they play with and the charming knack for hooks they slather across the EP. Casey Noonan’s soaring, near operatic vocals might be the perfect fodder for sobbing strings, but instead they add an anthemic procession to a gritty, mosh-pit inducing frenzy. This is one of the most deliriously catchy EPs released in recent...2023-05-0322 min
Woodhouse InterviewsY Bülbül: WoodhouseWho is the man behind the curtain? The shadowy figure behind the throne? Well, in the case of Not One, Not Two, there’s a duo of playfully baffling artists tinkering at the fringes. Turkey-based mystery drummer Yumutar and London occupying, Turkish born polymath Y Bülbül. The collaborations started when Yumutar sent over hours of drum loops and recordings to Bülbül and he dutifully begun to mutate the sounds. Taking inspiration from ambient, dub and progressive electronic, Not One, Not Two, is a giddy, mischievous record that bounces between genres, tickling the brain with each turn...2023-04-1223 min
The ARK of E PodcastTalkin' SXSW w/ Our Man in TX (Nathan Stevens)Nathan Stevens (The 2010s Podcast / Micajah) joins me once again to chat about his latest musical finds. Nathan attended the 2023 SXSW Music & Arts Festival and found quite the array of new and emerging talent to recommend. Plus we pay a bit of tribute to the incomparable Ryuichi Sakamoto who passed away a few weeks back. AND We each recommend our current favorite Albums Of The Year as well as what we've been listening to. We hope you enjoy...
Nathan's Album - Nested Light by Micajah :
https://open.spotify.com/album/0O79rrrgx3j8RMKHELMk74?si=k5S6dTqUQpy7mVpQ_707Kg
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Time & Motion Podcast with Lee StevensFounding a Real Estate business with Nathan NajibE4 Nathan Najib. At the age of 7, Nathan fled his native Afghanistan in the middle of the night to escape to New Zealand, via Pakistan. Nathan shares his story how he founded his own real estate business, his views on the current real estate market and why sales is changing.Hear how some of Australasia's most interesting and successful people are utilising People, Technology and Processes to live a productive life.For more information on Lee Stevens visit www.leestevens.co Sponsored by workforcery.com2023-03-271h 07