Par ep 7 - a hazy summer with an abrupt conclusion

Peaking Lights - Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)
Rangers - Zombies
Ennio Morricone and Giallo Trailers (YouTube) - The Fifth Chord (Unofficial Trailer)
Sun Araw - Horse Steppin'
HEALTH - Goth Star
Public Image Limited - Warrior
Turzi - Buenos Aires
Black Pus - Police Song
Axolotl - Kingdom of Ends
Mouthus vs Mikis Michaelides - Armies Between/Get that Snitch

I've never had the kind of summer imagined by Peaking Lights, Rangers or Sun Araw. They're hazy and tranquil, like a more illicit variant of an Anette Funicello/Frankie Avalon movie. There are moments where I can almost feel them - when I'm driving down the Pacific Coast Highway without another car in front of me or through the Sierras with the faint smell of three-week-old forest fire still filling the air, but they're ephemeral - seconds of time you try to hold onto so you can relive them in March when it's cold and wet for the sixth straight month in a row.

The frantic, harried noise of Black Pus, Axolotl and Mouthus is more familiar, though thankfully, it's been twenty-plus years since I deliberately put myself in that kind of mental state. I'm not entirely certain if mashing up Mouthus with the Mikis Michaelides song from the Attack the Block soundtrack works, but it's been stuck in my head for most of the summer and I felt like I had to do something with it.

The HEALTH and PIL tracks in the middle are aimed to tie the two pieces together. In the case of PIL, it was an excuse to use one of my favorite songs by my favorite post-punk band, with HEALTH, it was a good song with a great name that came along just as I was putting the episode together.

Thanks to the anonymous episode requester - the show was only about a week out, but getting confirmation that someone who (to my knowledge) i didn't know personally wanted to hear more got me to put this out a week earlier. I'm more or less pleased with the result and will try to have episodes eight and nine both done sometime before the end of the year.

- txxt