#788 Buried Treasures, Greg's Mixtape & Artists We Lost in 2020

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Host Greg Kot shares the latest installment of his series of annual mixtapes and host Jim DeRogatis shares a new batch of buried treasure songs. We also remember musicians we lost in 2020.

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Featured Songs:

1000mods, "Warped," Youth of Dissent, Ouga Booga And The Mighty Oug Recordings, 2020

Tamar Aphek, "Show Me Your Pretty Side," Show Me Your Pretty Side (Single), Rough Trade, 2020

That Brunette, "Platonic," Platonic (Single), That Brunette, 2020

Grandbrothers, "Howth," All the Unknown, City Slang, 2020

Ólafur Arnalds & JFDR, "Back to the Sky," some kind of peace, Decca, 2020

Sen Morimoto, "Woof," Sen Morimoto, Sooper, 2020

Spun Out, "Another House," Touch the Sound, Spun Out Productions, 2020

Horsegirl, "Sea Life Sandwich Boy," Sea Life Sandwich Boy (Single), self-released, 2020

Ratboys, "Look To," Printer's Devil, Topshelf, 2020

Dehd, "Desire," Flower of Devotion, Fire Talk, 2020

Ric Wilson, "Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P," Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P (Single), Free Disco, 2020

John Mayall's Blues Breakers, "The Supernatural," A Hard Road, Decca, 1967

Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman," I Am Woman, Capitol, 1972

Toots and the Maytals, "54-46 That's My Number," (Single), Beverley's, 1968

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0:00.0	You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show I'm going to give you a preview of my 20-20 mixtape
0:05.2	and we bid farewell to some of the artists we lost last year. But first it's time for another round of buried treasures, Jim.
0:13.0	Greg, I am looking ahead to 2021.
0:16.0	Several artists on my list have albums that I'm super excited about coming out in this new year,
0:22.0	but singles and various EPs and tracks already were
0:26.7	released in 2020 to wet our appetites.
0:30.3	I'm going to start in Israel with Tamar Aefec and she is just amazing.
0:38.4	She is the Israeli Courtney Barnett.
0:41.4	We've heard a lot of Courtney Barnett influence, you know, angry but melodic, great singing, incredibly
0:49.5	explosive rock guitar.
0:51.4	The Israeli music press has called her Israel's guitar goddess and
0:56.9	that kind of connotes a metal tinge but I don't get that as much as an occasional
1:02.3	goth and moody and super heavy sound obviously
1:08.6	influenced by 90s alternative rock all bets areOff is the album that's coming early in 2021 from
1:16.4	Tamar and it is she says a concept album about the cyclical nature of life and how you know with luck you move
1:26.0	from the dark side to the bright side I am up for that let me tell you she produced the album herself, Daniel Schllett, who's worked with
1:36.2	War on Drugs and Dive, a band you love, mixed it and recorded in part at that wonderful Daptone Records studio home of so much great
1:48.0	soul and funk, right? You know, all recorded live in a big room, right? So it's got that kind of energy. The album is coming,
1:56.1	it's called All Betts are off. The single was released or one of two singles released in 2020.
2:03.0	I'm going to play this one.
2:05.0	Show Me Your Pretty Side
2:07.0	by Tamar A Feck on Sound opinions.
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