Please Stay For The Night Anyway

Ill Ease and the Racket “Here Comes Trouble (To The Tune Of Pretty Woman)” – The song just keeps moving forward, driving on in a straight line until it just stops cold at the end. It picks up a bit of speed, but it’s not in any particular hurry. It just moves ahead, with a head full of ambivalence and indecision, and no real sense of purpose. It’s right in the middle of pleasure and anxiety, and it’s never clear whether the singer feels like the driver, or the person going along for the ride. (Click here to pre-order it from Ionik Recordings.)

Starfucker “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second” – I want to find these guys and shake them and make them give me a good answer as to why they call themselves Starfucker. I don’t want to like a band called Starfucker, and you probably don’t either. Maybe the joke is that they don’t really seem like the type of band to take the name Starfucker, or perhaps it’s that in this sort of counterintuitive way, they kinda sound like actual star fuckers. I’m not talking about people who pursue celebrities for their own gain, mind you. What I mean is, on their best songs, they get a bit cosmic but also very chill and smooth, like some sort of celestial being that seduces and then has something roughly analogous to sex with actual stars. (Click here to pre-order it from Badman Recording Co.)