Caesura: The Music Explorer's Podcast

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Even More Freeform Bullshit Sep 21, 2020

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We enter yet another episode of off-the-cuff musical takes in this new episode. Some topics: the paradoxical nature of Nickelback, active vs. passive listening, and comparing Oneohtrix Point Never and Wadada Leo Smith.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Vatican Shadow—Persian Pillars of the Gasoline Era
Elaine: Candlemass—Nightfall

Looking At Our Old Music Lists Sep 14, 2020

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This week we travel back to the past, to when we had...not-so-good of tastes in music, and reflect on how things have changed for the better.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: The Specials—The Singles Collection
Elaine: The Knife—Silent Shout

Zeuhl Exploration Sep 08, 2020

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This week we dive deep down into the catacombs of esoteric music and explore Zeuhl, a genre created by the band Magma.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Dimmu Borgir—Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Elaine: The Budos Band—The Budos Band

Album Dares (The Specials & Subotnick) Aug 31, 2020

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This week we go back to an old Caesura classic: Album Dares, where we “dare” each other to listen to an album the other hasn’t heard before. This week’s picks: the debut Specials album, and Morton Subotnick’s Silver Apples of the Moon.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Fleet Foxes—Fleet Foxes EP
Elaine: Oneohtrix Point Never—R Plus 7

August 2020 Reviews & Anniversaries Aug 24, 2020

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This week finds us talking about some of our August picks, including the new Video Age and Deerhoof (live) albums, as well, as discussing some old favorites: Opeth’s Ghost Reveries, and Rancid’s And Out Come The Wolves!

Albums of the Week:

Scott: The Killers—Imploding the Mirage
Elaine: Neptunian Maximalism—Eons

Reading A Joy Division Book Aug 17, 2020

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This week...well, the title says it, right? This week we read This Searing Light, The Sun, and Everything Else, a fascinating oral biography of the band Joy Division, and we talk about our thoughts on it, and how it has shaped our opinions on the band and its members.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Cinder Well—No Summer
Elaine: 36 & Zake—Stasis Sounds for Long Distance Space Travel

More Freeform BS Aug 10, 2020

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This week we have…no topic! And instead devote this time to kind of seeing where the conversation takes us, baited by a challenge we issued to ourselves: to each listen to one “classic” album that we haven’t previously listened to before.

Albums of the Week:

Scott: Roy Clark—The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark
Elaine: Pedestrian Deposit—Dyers’ Hands

(P.S. Shoutout to Pad Chennington for recommending Pedestrian Deposit!)

Musical What-Ifs Aug 03, 2020

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What if the Sex Pistols didn’t break up? What if the British Invasion wasn’t much of an invasion? We talk about these and other musical what-ifs this week.

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