blooming into normal (2022)
"An incredible mélange of styles, voices, themes and sonic textures. Surprises abound in this sonic journey. Enjoyable from beginning to end." - Stranded Alien
this is an album that doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up; a faux retro-dystopian look at life’s formative years (whatever that means)
influences:
vaporwave, rehearsalgaze, lo-fi, chimp rock, yeahwhateveryousaycore, etc.
Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Beck, Steven Roden, Shostokovich
Mr. Rock and Space Case and Colin Bazsali’s tapeacorder
Lizards From Afar (music: lizardsfromafar.bandcamp.com , history: lizardsfromafar.wordpress.com)
Richard Linklater’s “Slacker” (1990)
the Jackie Treehorn sequence from The Big Lebowski
Roger Waters’ Radio KAOS (1986)
Larry Lujak’s Animal Stories
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs
Firesign Theatre
credits
unwitting voice talent:
Al Schultz, Dave Bohnenstiehl, Maria Bodenbender, Eric Oberg, Thea Gilmore, Alex Tyler, Ted Nicholson, Heidi Pollock, Karen Manley, Beth Hastie, George Manning, Heather Lampert, et. al
Track listing:
smoke and vermouth (00:00)
no class (1:50)
interruption one (3:31)
WUDK: rawk news! (3:53)
delicate people (7:03)
distraction (9:59)
WUDK: shoutouts (11:55)
WUDK: i love u so much i wanna die (14:19)
authentic ish (15:09)
WUDK: fanmail1 Loogie (16:50)
slump day (17:54)
study group guys let's go exam tomorrow (22:47)
study break (23:25)
WUDK: local weather (27:02)
so many liquor stores (27:54)
WUDK: fanmail2 concerned mom (32:58)
unconcerned (34:25)
interruption two (36:03)
another weekend (36:41)
what now tv (41:05)
WUDK: more rawk news! (41:56)
oo look shiny (43:27)
WUDK: callers (44:07)
delicate people reprise (51:16)