Deep Voices #13
aka Thumb Piano Biweekly
Deep Voices #13 on Apple Music
Friendly reminder that this is the last Thursday playlist. Beginning on Monday I’ll be going weekly. If you find yourself on a future Thursday with nothing to listen to (or any day really), just email me and I’ll send you some special tunes. Nothing makes me happier.
Playlist Notes:
Thinking about renaming this newsletter “Playlist of Songs That Sound Like a Thumb Piano, But Digital.” Renaming my life that. Is this what people mean when they say find your purpose? I keep a playlist of what I called a “scratch pad” of songs that I think could eventually be good for Deep Voices and I am pretty sure all of them are some sad dude in his room recording a thumb piano into his computer, adding reverb, and crying. Then I hear it and scream “masterpiece!” Enjoy this playlist’s representative, Kilchhofer.
Apple Music listeners, you are sadly missing the White Mice song “Hand to Hand Woman.” It goes between Holy Tongue and N’Dongo Lo and maybe is the best song on here. Check it out on YouTube.
Two acts that don’t get the credit they deserve as innovators: Remarc and Out Hud. Remarc is a jungle producer who really pioneered making a song sound huge and punishing but simultaneously deep and emotional. “Virtua Cop” is a later period track from him, a random compilation song, that moves at a slightly slower pace than his usual tracks, and I like it for that. Instead of running through you like the Kool-Aid Man, he shoves you over from point blank.
Out Hud were a large group who were ahead of their time. They blended the best loping guitar moments in indie with the more sauntering of house melodies. They made two albums, but Street Dad is their masterpiece, a good-natured suite of songs that were probably too nebulous to ever find their true audience when they existed in the early 2000s. Maybe it’s time.