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Woodhouse Interviews

Nathan Stevens

An interview series with the best musical artists of the 21st century.

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00:42:17

Kill Bill: Woodhouse Interview

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/22

There are glitches in the system. And Kill Bill’s one of them. The southern rapper is a founding member of the internet label/collective EXO music, popping up in the early 2010s with his gravelly, Lil Ugly Mane-esque flow. But simple nerd-rap this ain’t. Using a kaleidoscoping mish-mash of references from N64 heydays to Matrix breakdowns, Bill explores mental illness, self-identity and the larger world of rap. So, listen to our interview, read our blurb on “RPG” and see why we think it’s one of the

00:29:12

Jeff Rosenstock: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

“Dumbfounded, downtrodden and dejected/Crestfallen, grief-stricken and exhausted.” All hail the king of anxiety. Pop-punk legend Jeff Rosenstock mutated his career for the…at least third time with a wallop of hyper-catchy, hyper-depressing albums. Anthemic to the core, POST- was the grandest of them all, a personal and political dissection in the wake of Trump’s election. No one gets out unscathed, especially not Rosenstock. It’s hard too say if there’s hope ringing out of the album, but at the very

00:48:48

Braids: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

A darkness lingers in the electronics The stuttering hi-hats, bubbling synths and cascading keyboards all made for something beautiful, but tinged, at all moments, with an abyssal sorrow. Canadian trio Braids set out to explore the warped worlds of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada through their own rock background and crafted the gorgeous Flourish // Perish. But being locked up in a harsh Montreal winter and exorcizing Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s struggles with anxiety, gift the album a placid,

00:16:36

Alcest: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

“Listen to it at night, by the sea.” These were Neige’s parting words to me. After a discussion of the colors, emotions and seasons that Alcest’s glorious Écailles De Lune runs through, his advice was to experience it in its natural habitat. Metal has always been beautiful. Metallica’s “Fade to Black,” Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” Emperor’s “Into the Infinity of Thoughts,” metal has found glory both between and with crushing sections of doom. And Alcest tenderly weaves them all together in a

00:43:42

Indaba Is: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/22

Before we even hit record, Siyabonga Mthembu is telling me a story. It involves, in no particular order, a run in with London based jazz-wizard Shakaba Hutchings, a near clairvoyant café owner and a subway train filled with musicians, their instruments taking up more room than their bodies. Mthembu’s stories are like the music creates, sly, captivating and always on the edge. Alongside composer Thandi Ntuli, Mthembu crafted the sprawling collective Indaba Is, a showcase of music from South Africa

00:37:02

Rob Mazurek: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

Somewhere in our conversation, Rob Mazurek mentions he wants listeners to “levitate” to his music. And, impossibly, I think he can pull it off. The trumpet player, composer, synth-master, mole maker is also the leader of the Exploding Star Orchestra, a jazzy bunch of rabble rousers who’s most recent album, Dimensional Stardust, is as baffling as it is beautiful. It’s like looking into an ever tumbling kaleidoscope and the millions of shining particles suddenly spitting out a fully formed Monet

00:36:06

Good Looks: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

If you’re gonna get in a bar fight, better know who’s got your back. Man fights self, god, society and whiskey on Good Looks’ debut Bummer Year. The Austin, Texas outfit are a cobbled together quartet of dudes from across the Lone Star State, each with stories of small towns filled with late-capitalism rot. Lead singer Tyler Jordan looks over his shoulder constantly, both to his past and trying to figure out who’s still following him through the brutality of service industry jobs, failed romance and

00:21:40

Canary Room: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

The first noise we hear on Christine is a bird, chirping merrily away, like it’s warming up its voice. It’s apropos, considering the five tunes of naturalist meditation we’re about to embark on. The EP from Portland-based songwriter Canary Room, aka Maddy Heide, is one of 2021’s small joys. Heide’s dexterous guitar work and fluttering voice puts her alongside the bare musings of Linda Perhacs or Sibylle Baier, but with her constant gestures at the natural world, with water springing forth in nearly

00:29:18

Alonzo Demetrius: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

Focus your rage. Alonzo Demetrius certainly has. Tempered by his skill, genius and fiery trumpet playing, his righteous anger at the sprawling, cruel prison system of the United States has created a remarkable document. Live from the Prison Nation is an at turns, beautiful, eerie, disturbing, but always a powerful piece of activism. Drawing from the memories of his Uncle and Cousin who both served prison sentences, Demetrius and his band, The Ego, flow through the murky, Kafka-worth world of the

00:41:37

Fuubutsushi: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

“We have mad beef with the other four seasons” Fuubutsushi have officially declared war on Vivaldi. The classical composer’s Four Seasons suite towers above most seasonal music as the foundational sonic document for spring, summer, fall and winter. But the jazz quartet, all speaking from different parts of the country seem assured, if not without a few giggles, that they’ll take over the pop cultural space for musical representations of the changing seasons. And they, at the very least, have the

00:23:06

Jaubi: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

Peace. Freedom. Self-discovery. These are the underlying themes of Nafs at Peace. Without a single word spoken on the album, it’s remarkably self-assured and self-evident in its truths. Created by Pakistani improvisational jazz outfit Jaubi, Nafs at Peace is one of the year’s most revelatory releases. Weaving together the threads of Hindustani classical music, hip-hop beats and spiritual jazz, the group has made a record as funky as it is healing. The connections between the ecstatic jazz of Alice

00:30:55

Alexia Avina: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/22

We don’t use the word “luster” enough. We’ve pretty much relegated it to the shimmer of a pearl. But, from the album cover to the final track, Alexia Avina’s A Little Older, does shine with the luster of a pearl; beautiful, transfixing and harkening to nature. The ever traveling musician has crafted one of the most propulsive ambient releases in recent memory, deftly combining indie-rock hooks with glitchy production and deep wells of mediative synths. Her crystal clear voice flips from a strident

00:24:17

Kirin J Callinan: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/21

To make proper pastiche, it takes true love for what you’re taking the piss out of. Anyone can rip off, it takes a disciple to poke fun and ascend simultaneously. And, miraculously, Australian pop prince Kirin J Callinan pilfered from EDM, country and ‘80s pop to create the silliest love letter of the 2010s. But, in the dark, beautiful corners of Bravado there is a wondrous vulnerability that casts all of Callinan’s prancing and crooning in a new light. This was a labor of exploration, debauchery

00:34:48

Elder: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/21

Evolve or die. Any rock band who’s had more than one successful album knows this. But the choice paralysis of just how many directions you could go often proves the death-kneel for many metalheads. Elder, when presented with this quandary, simply said “oh we’ll do all of it.” From their early days of slab-like doom metal, there was always a mischievous quality to their music, just waiting to burst into flight. From album to album they indulged in bigger and surprisingly beautiful passages, making

00:36:25

Elori Saxl: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/21

Life bubbles up beneath death. The emergence of spring might have a sound for you. The rustling of robins, hushed winds blowing over freshly sprouting clover fields, but as winter’s grip loosens, something more elemental burbles. Composer Elori Saxl heard it from the shores of Lake Superior, the growing sounds of water flowing beneath thick sheets of ice. Under a surface of sheer stillness, life flowed. Saxl took those sounds and made it the bedrock, both narratively and sonically, of her newest

00:22:23

Disasterpeace: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/08/21

Disasterpeace has a claim to being one of the most influential artists of the decade; in a quiet, chameleonic way. Though Rich Vreeland doesn’t usually do things quietly. His best known work is awash in digital decay and thumping kick drums. The horror sensibilities of John Carpenter fed through a Super Nintendo. His industrial by way of chip tune aesthetic gained him praise in the blissful to terrifying fuzz of Fez and the insidious lurk of It Follows. Vreeland’s absurd prolificness has now led

00:40:50

Darren Korb: Woodhouse Interviews (2)

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/21

Every Supergiant Games release is an event. But it’s not just from the gamers and critics who adore the video games’ rich stories, immaculate art style or addictive game play. It’s the music nerds that also wait with bated breath on Darren Korb’s newest score. As Supergiant’s in-house composer and audio head, Korb has become a fixture unto himself with his compositions, from the Lead Belly meets Massive Attack thunk of Bastion to the Imogen Heap inspired Transistor soundtrack. But for Korb, and

00:55:39

Darren Korb: Woodhouse Interviews (1)

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/21

00:48:20

Baths: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/21

“Everything about that record is cursed.” Will Wiesenfeld says that with a laugh, but it’s not really a joke. Obsidian, his second album under the name Baths, set off a brutal run of shows with a new collaborator, Morgan Greenwood, and electronic failures that seemed to have come from a witch’s hex. But you could have gotten the cursed feeling just from the music. Obsidian is at once a dancy, electronic album and an uncompromisingly punishing listen. So hear our interview with Wiesenfeld, read our

00:50:38

Yeasayer: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/21

When I first saw Yeasayer, it was at an outdoor music festival in Houston—-in June. If you’re from Texas, you know how horrific this is. It was 107 degrees when the Brooklyn boys took the stage. Front man Chris Keating sweated through every article of clothing he had, making the foot around him a salty splash zone. But it all made some sort of humid sense. Yeasayer, fresh off of the hallucinatory highs of their debut All Hour Cymbals had decided to dive into the pop deep end. But, as a band who

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