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Are you still stumbling into the new year and trying to find your footing? Record of the Week is here to help you sit and spend a little time with yourself and take a break from negotiating the horrors of the world outside. This week, the Randomizer is suggesting you take some comfort in a stone cold classic, Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner (1975). I'm spinning this lovely red copy that I was able to pick up when ANTI Records posted when an intern apparently "found" a box of them hidden away somewhere. This album has been in my...

Happy new year and welcome to the New Year's Day edition of ROTW. This week, the Randomizer serves up Chelsea Wolfe's Live at Roadburn. This set was recorded in 2012, and the album was released in 2018. This gorgeous violet disc is the copy I'll be playing. Roadburn is a festival started up in 1999, in Tilburg, Netherlands. I've never been but I've read about it here and there. I think they mainly focus on metal/doom/heavy rock. Chelsea Wolfe is a perfect fit. Opening up the album with Halfsleeper pretty much sets the tone for this set. Haunting and heavy. The...

Welcome back to ROTW, hope your holidays were cool. This week, the Randomizer serves up Asobi Seksu's 2006 gem, Citrus. This is the copy I'll be playing today. I love this album so much, it checks all the boxes for me. I remember hearing the lead single, Strawberries, and just instantly fell for it. I think the album came out a month later, around the start of June. I swear I listened to the album every day for the rest of the year (and probably into a good chunk of 2007). What a blast of an album. Pop hooks for...

Record of the Week is back! Did a little traveling for Thanksgiving and the week after, and we're still here. This week, the Randomizer brings us Wilco's Speak into the Rose, which is a companion EP to 2011's The Whole Love. This RSD copy from 2011 is what I'll be spinning today. Side 1 of the 4-track 10" EP serves up a 7-minute alternate version of Art of Almost and a demo of I Might. At first listen, one might think this is not Wilco. Very electronic, very experimental and very cool. Side 2 lines up a couple of b-sides,...

Welcome to the Thanksgiving Day edition of Record of the Week. This week, the Randomizer is serving up The National's Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers. This "Vinyl Me Please" reissue from 2017 is the copy I'll be listening to today. Released in 2003, their second album is kinda The National forming their Sad Dads schtick that is very much their brand today. Very indie, a little bit rock and slightly veering into alt-country territory at points. This album, I think, is kinda underrated in The National canon, which is now 10 albums deep (not counting live albums). It just doesn't seem...