Episode 27 // White Reaper, Exploding In Sound, & More
We have a lot of music and artists that are new to the podcast in this episode, including Bad History Month with a song off their new album, ‘Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration Of Pessimysticism’ — plus songs by their Exploding In Sound labelmates, Two Inch Astronaut and Baked. Also new to the podcast are El Silver Cabs, White Reaper, and Slaughter Beach, Dog. And to celebrate the release of Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Taylor Slow is back in action to play covers of Swift’s songs reeeeaaaaaaallllllllllllyyyyy sloooooooooooooooooooow, so to celebrate that we have a song by The New Restaurants, which features members of Taylor Slow. Oh, and Guerilla Toss’ will be live soon with their off-kilter badass jams, so we have a couple of exclusive live tracks from when they visited BTR for a session.
- White Reaper - The World's Best American Band
- El Silver Cabs - s/t
- The New Restaurants - forgetabout.institute
- Bad History Month - Dead And Loving It
- Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie
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