1. "From Deep within the Core" - Red Queen Hypothesis
2. "IKND" - DMA
3. "Battle of Zama" - Shocker Zulu
4. "Graphein" - Zachary Walter
5. "Steel" - Otis and the Rufies
6. "Nowhere to Run" - Brandon Tinkler
7. "Shot You in the Leg" - Brian Colin and Vince
8. "Nothing Better" - Sway Kiss
9. "The Worst (That Comes out of Me)" - John Terrill
10. "Davy" - Quick Said the Bird

In a move I'm honestly kinda proud of, this week's playlist starts of weird and angular before slowly, slowly funneling down into the type of music you can get away with playing out of the speakers on your desk at work. A new little ditty from Red Queen Hypothesis kicks the whole thing off, making me worry about nuclear energy more than I usually do on Tuesdays. Right as it ends, DMA slips in with some stereo spectrum messery, spinning frequencies off like tops until Shocker Zulu sets everything into a locked right angle with a driving mechanized kick and a meta-narrative about a battle somewhere I've never been. 

Zachary Walter winds the oddness down with a gentle instrumental he just added to our archive, before Otis and the Rufies pick up that under-the-table drive and shifts it forward like a hyperactive beast made up halfway of Unwound and halfway of Lungfish (by the way, how come no one told me there were still bands that sound like Unwound on the archive that I hadn't heard?) "Steel" cuts out abruptly, interrupted by the soft strum of Brandon Tinkler, and then we're on our way out into the quiet night, voices soft, windows rolled down--Brian, Colin, & Vince, Sway Kiss, John Terrill, and Quick Said the Bird carry us out. 

Stick with me and we'll keep going on trips like these every single week until my fingers fall off. 

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