Saturday Sep 05 · 2026
Heavier than your average day · a long session · 11 artists returning · 39 new to the record.
Themes
The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine
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heaviness over time →
old-time folk, death sung plain
crooners and memory coming apart
crust, thrash, first-wave metal
a turn through Watain
Discharge, the source
Mastodon, one song on a loop
105
tracks
50
artists
75
albums
12h 52m
span
Heaviest rotation — Discharge ×14 · Busiest hour — 19:00 (19 plays) · Longest gap — 21:54 → 00:59 (3h 05m)
Weight
7
lightheavy
Brightness
3
darkbright
Restlessness
6
settledrestless
Waiting Around To Die
The Be Good Tanyas · Chinatown
† Liner note
Townes Van Zandt wrote this as one of his first songs, a flat unhurried ballad of a life running out. The Be Good Tanyas strip it back further still.
12:48
A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Appalachia
Lizard in the Spring · A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Appalachia
13:00
Heartaches
Al Bowlly · The Al Bowlly Collection 1927-40, Vol. 1
† Liner note
Al Bowlly was the great British dance-band crooner of the 1930s, killed in a 1941 air raid on London. The two tracks that follow are The Caretaker haunting the exact ballroom sound he made.
15:49
Camaraderie at arms length
The Caretaker · An empty bliss beyond this World
† Liner note
Leyland Kirby's project stages the onset of dementia as 1930s ballroom records looped and left to disintegrate.
15:53
Outlaw Vagabond
Wolfpack · A New Dawn Fades
† Liner note
Wolfpack renamed itself Wolfbrigade in 1999; both names run through this day, the same Swedish crust band under each.
18:15
The Black Vomit
Sarcófago · INRI
First Sarcófago since Aug 12.
† Liner note
From Brazil's INRI (1987), among the first records to pair corpse paint with pure speed, a marker for the extreme metal that came after.
19:55
Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Discharge · Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
† Liner note
The 1982 title track whose two-chord charge and drum pattern became d-beat, the pattern under nearly every band in this evening.
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