Heathen Disco Music Reviews #0037 (October 29, 2024)

Welcome. The door is closed!

Heathen Disco is the name I operate under for music-related programming. The margins of my life are completely sleeved out by music: listening to, enjoying, recommending, promoting, broadcasting, entertaining, releasing music. I am back to writing about it after a bit of a sabbatical, and it’s going pretty well by any yardstick I’d use to measure success in this realm. 

To new folks – please check out the previous 36 editions of this newsletter with my compliments. If you don’t discover something new or find anything you like across roughly 180 reviews (most of which were about records released this year), that’s frankly on you. But if you did, you’re welcome to find more for just $3/month or $35/year. This thing publishes twice a week, and I don’t get bored.

If you keep up, let’s compare notes. If you need an escape from all of this going on in the world, music works pretty well for that. If you used to be down and fell off due to life or whatever, here’s how you get back in. Music didn’t stop because you got older, and bands need someone out there who can actually listen to and interpret what they’re doing so that you can know about it and check it out. It is all too easy to sit out whatever’s going on, but we’re at yet another inflection point for independent music and culture that’s worth a shit, and it’s not just the artists and the cottage industries behind them – it’s you, listeners and consumers and appreciators and fans out that decide how this keeps going.

Heathen Disco used to be a radio show but that radio station is firmly in my rear view, as I brought it back home where it belongs. A new episode just dropped over the weekend and you can listen to it here. This is the 384th edition of Heathen Disco.

Tracklist as follows:

• Caroline Crawford – Havin’ Fun / RIding On Your Love

• Demis Roussos – L.O.V.E. Got a Hold Of Me

• Cookie Jar – Dance Between Raindrops

• Panico – Lupita (Zongamin Remix)

• Manicured Noise – Metronome

• Weirdos – Big (Shot in the Head)

• Institute – Only Child

• Ignition – Cancellation

• Wayne Rogers – Waterside

• Thee Speaking Canaries – Dizzy and Stoned

• The June Brides – One Day (Peel Session)

• Lush – De-Luxe

• Slovenly – Sand

• Patois Counselors – Bands I Barely Spoke With

• Usurabi – Aseranai

• Rat Columns – Leaf

• Dean Spunt – Highlighter Bombastic

• Mope Grooves – Do You Hear Music

• The Wolfgang Press – The Line

• Etran De L’air – Amidinine

• Prince Philip - Man Free Dub

• DIÄT – Hurricane

• Led Er Est – I Wait

• Bailter Space – Fish Eye

• Christmas Decorations – Data 70

• The Sylvers – Love Over Mind

• Ramsey Lewis – Les Fleur

• Shinichi Atobe – Regret

• Toyshop – Violent Light

• Corker – Forever Silent

• A Place to Bury Strangers – Bad Idea

• Bardo Pond – Shadow Puppet

• CS + Kreme – Dome Mosaic 

Before that, though … please continue to forward this along as work like this could always use more eyes by those who need to see it and hear it.

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Working on my comp list for artists and labels and such, just gimme a minute to sort through the rolls and put it together. If you’re regularly sending me music to cover, I got you.

It’s important to see bands, sometimes to close a loop, so here is a field report:

Drop Nineteens / Olivia O. / Astrobrite @ Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 10/23/2024

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