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We're navigating some illness on the Senior Staff's part to bring you discussion of records we missed last year by Container 90 and Vacious Cuerpos. We're also talking about Ted Phelps, Substance, and forthcoming Haujobb and Encephalon records.

Prompted by catching an absolutely electric show from all around cross-genre rock legends The Damned this past weekend, we're dedicating this week's episode to discussing their history, their strengths, and the ways they've drifted in and out of proximity to and influence on goth while maintaining their own utterly groovy sense of cool. We're also discussing some coverage of recent darkwave in The Guardian.

It's a very specially formatted episode of the podcast this week, as we're joined by three of our Patreon backers to discuss records by Steril, Black Light District/Coil, and GusGus. These episodes are always a treat as they prompt us to listen to records we might not have otherwise considered for the podcast, or listen to old favourites from new perspectives. Thanks very much to Dave, Jeremy, and Adam for joining us!

We're happy to present an interview with Mark Burgess of legendary UK act Chameleons on this week's podcast. The band was in town on the first leg of their Strange Times album tour, but are also hot on the heels of their first new material in over two decades, so there was a lot Mark was enthused to discuss with us. In addition to offering our own thoughts about the Chameleons show, we're also throwing in our two cents about the Praga Khan/Lords of Acid tour which made its was through Van.

We have a Pick Five episode of the podacst for you folks this week, as we're trekking twenty years back to look at some representative records from 2004, spinning out of a conversation about that era on our recent [:SITD:] commentary. Also some talk about the New Beat Blind test and the Purple City fest in Edmonton.

Fifteen years on from its release, we're looking back at Rot, the high watermark for Germany's [:SITD:], on this month's commentary podcast. It's a record which stood out at the time in terms of structure and sound design compared to a relatively creatively inert club industrial scene, and we're getting into the minutiae of why that is.