Crash Chords Podcast

Crash Chords Podcast


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CCP Ep. #241: Humanz by Gorillaz
May 25, 2017

It's time for everyone's favorite (and perhaps only) virtual band! Although we've inspected the work of Damon Albarn before, this is our first chance to take on the Gorillaz, an unrelated ensemble of animated musicians --- 2-D, Mudoc, Noodle,

CCP Ep. #240: All the Way by Diamanda Galás
May 18, 2017

Today we're surveying the front lines of musical sensibilities. Avant garde singer, pianist, composer, and painter Diamanda Galás isn't your everyday rom-com soprano. With a voice that's been known to induce fear in a single note,

CCP Ep. #239: Rosetta by Vangelis
May 11, 2017

Let's traverse the cosmos to check in on our oft-mentioned composer of all things 'space', the one and only Vangelis. Although marrying electronic music to space-oriented themes is fairly intuitive, Vangelis, who cornered the market on it,

CCP Ep. #238: Drunk by Thundercat
May 05, 2017

At the behest of listener (and former guest Devin Jackson Mullen of Anxious Kids Make Good People), today we're taking on Drunk, the latest project by Thundercat, the stage name of grammy-award winning bassist Stephen Bruner. Composed by Bruner,

CCP Ep. #237: Atlas by FM-84
April 27, 2017

Put on your speedos and roll, yes, roll down your windows. Today we're surfing through some retrowave, a genre that's all about those bygone times... but who's kidding who: those times are the 1980s. With a debut album called Atlas,

CCP Ep. #236: Actually, Extremely by Snooze
April 20, 2017

We are actually, extremely, keenly, and especially excited for today's album. (Really.) You'll want to stick it out to the end for this one as we've got a lot of material lined up for discussion courtesy of math rock band Snooze and their debut album A...

CCP Ep. #235: Performance by Age Coin
April 04, 2017

Another dip into the wide world of electronica, this week we're tackling an industrial techno album called Performance by Age Coin. Formerly of the band Lower, the duo behind Age Coin are Kristian Emdal and Simon Formann who,

CCP Ep. #234: Headspace by Issues
March 20, 2017

Once again, we're reaching deep into the grab bag... a mysterious album brought to us by a mysterious listener: The Mysterious Mark H. Past harbinger of Black Messiah and FFS, Mysterious's latest recommendation came with precious few clues,

CCP Ep. #233: Zombies on Broadway by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
March 13, 2017

You might know him from Something Corporate, or even from Jack's Mannequin; well now, know him from his official solo project, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. As the artist appears to have settled on the new stage name (for now),

CCP Ep. #232: Oczy Mlody by The Flaming Lips
February 23, 2017

Oczy Mlody? ...Otshee Mwodee? ...Oxycodone? ...Whatever it is, it's the latest creation by alt rock veterans, The Flaming Lips. Inspired by phrases from a Polish translation of Erkine Caldwell's novel 'Close to Home',