In this periodically random, or randomly periodic series I will be highlighting batches of music that I find interesting. They will likely be new, but they might be old. They could be superstars, but mostly they will unheard of, independently labeled and somewhat obscure. They will be free, but you are encouraged to buy. They will all be good, at least to me, at the time I post them. Your mileage may very. Heck, my mileage may very a day after I post them.
Leave it to me to start a new series and then disappear for a several weeks after only a couple of posts. I have excuses, and perhaps a good reason. The wife recently got a new job, which has first taken us to Tennessee and in a few weeks, will take us to Belgium and various other European destinations, for three months (and yes you can look forward to the Belgium Diaries, written in the same manner as my Shanghai Diaries.)
As all of this came on rather suddenly we had to make mad rushes to Kentucky to see the wife's family, then to Tennessee to set things up, back to Oklahoma to pack and are now residing in Tennessee, but rushing about for the European trip.
Because of all this madness this column will become even more random in the coming months. I hope to get a couple more out before we head across the sea, and once there I should find the time for a few more, but mostly I'll be too busy to listen to any new music, much less write about it.
But enough about me, let's talk about indie rock for a minute.
"H.O.T.T." - Wheat
Having been on the scene for 11 years, released albums produced by Brian Deck (Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse, Counting Crows) and Dave Fridmann (Weezer, The Flaming Lips) and created an album that made it onto several top-ten lists for the year (Hope and Adams) it is surprising that I'm just hearing about Wheat now. Or maybe I've just never been that with it.
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