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Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality (2025)

I was not expecting to use this music for this. Over the last few months I had been having trouble sleeping, and finding soothing, ambient music that wasn’t too new-age or AI-driven was what led me to Totality, the second collaboration between the music ensemble known as Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, a sonic companion traveling the same roads. I had no prior experience with either group, but the fact it was released on Drag City (home of Ty Segall and Wand, among others) was a good sign. And now it’s here and I’m playing it for very different reasons: to starve off the shock and heartache of a friend’s sudden passing.

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 47: Sick, Again

And like clockwork, three days after I got home I came down with a wicked respiratory infection that pretty much laid me out the whole week. Not the best week to listen to nothing but Les Rallizes Dénudés for my pounding head, but damn that band just gets larger and larger in my brain space. Next week I’ll get out some odds and ends live music before jumping into May which is going to essentially be a catch-up month of all the new music that’s come in. Consider this playlist then my respite from the searing leads of Mizutani and a brief preview of some of the music getting reviewed next month.

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