Brief thoughts on singles I've heard recently on WFUV
At some point after Virginia published her guide on how to find music without relying on streaming algorithms, I decided to take some of the advice there and put WFUV in my radio diet, which previously consisted of WKCR’s weekend country and blues shows (never let it be said that I don’t read my own website). I don’t know why I never embraced FUV before that; maybe because it was an ambient staple in my house growing up I had some residual idea the playlists there were centered on decades-old middlebrow folk. I was wrong of course, but rather than dig deeper into my own strange beliefs I will instead focus on the present.
It’s been nice having FUV as a constant background hum, and the combination of the unpredictability of what’s next combined with the heavier plays of various new singles has added some pleasant variety into my usual habit of listening to records or playlists I made. Yes I am describing the experience of “listening to the radio” as if you perhaps have never done it. Anyway, for the first time in a long time, this also means I’m becoming much more familiar with new music played over and over again outside of my own choice to hear a given song which forces me to listen to it differently. As such, I have developed many opinions that I will now share with you. I’m not a trained music critic, I’m just a guy that has music on in the apartment a lot, so take this all for what you will.
Wet Leg, “Catch These Fists” - Yes, hell yes. For a while I thought that Wet Leg was gonna be a band that appeared and cut one fantastic album and then disappeared just as suddenly.
