blooming into normal (2022)

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)