XHM #721 - "Throwing gooey shapes" (2024 December 09)

The drawing to the close a year allows us to look back a bit to the past 12 months but also ahead to the coming new calendar. We'll juggle mostly Canadian songs amidst all this reflection with a profile on Seth A Smith's scores from The Crescent and Tin Can. 01. Freak Heat Waves: Music Has an Interesting Power (Mondo Tempo, 2023) Mood Hut 02. Stillwaves: I'm Haunted (Undiagnosed, 2023) Safe Sounds 03. Kristen Roos: Feight (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 04. Jody Glenham: The Local (Still Here EP, 2024) self-released 05. Kylie V: Golden (Crash Test Plane, 2024) Royal Mountain 06. Norman McLaren: Loops (Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren, 2024) Phantom Limb/We are Busy Bodies/NFB 07. ?Numb?Dame? Good Luck is for Suckers (This One is for You, 2024) self-released 08. Daft Punk: Aerodynamic (Discovery, 2001) Daft Life/ADA/Warner France 09. Plains Apparition: Pace of a Flashback (Late to the Afterthoughts, 2023) self-released 10. Boyhood: Magic (Shells EP, 2024) self-released 11. Digits: Wild at Heart [w.Edith Frost] (2024) self-released 12. Mark Korven: What's Happening to Me? (The First Omen OST, 2024) Hollywood/Mutant 13. Tonk: Wax (Thanks for Waiting, 2023) No Sun 14. Kaia Kater: Floodlights (Strange Medicine, 2024) Free Dirt 15. The Hang-Ten Hangmen: After the Storm (After the Storm, 2022) self-released 16. Avi C Engel: Where Does a Moth Go? (Nocturne: Soundtrack for an Invisible Film, 2025) Elephant Shrew 17. The Softies: To You from Me (The Bed I Made, 2024) Father/Daughter 18. The Nausea: Respice Finem (Requiem, 2024) Absurd Exposition/Buried in Slag and Debris 19. Janky Bungag: Brandy (2024) Royal Mountain 20. Midnight News: Sucker Punch (Bad New Days, 2024) Mono Tapes 21. CR Gillespie: The Protagonist as a Child (Tracings in Honey, 2021) Séance Centre 22. The Hausplants: Hypocrite (2024) self-released 23. Bananahaus: Mouse Trap (Welcome to the Bananahaus, 2023) self-released 24. Badbadnotgood: Mid Spiral (Mid Spiral, 2024) XL 25. Kelly McMichael: Open [Hurts to Have a Heart] (After the Sting of It, 2024) LHM 26. The Poison Dart: Lady, I've Been Hoping Long (Get Hot, 2006) Marriage 27. The Poly-Tones: Air (Sauna Music, 2024) Blake Markle 28. Dog Day: Bordering (A T-Shirt with Writing on It, 2024) Fundog 29. Seth Smith: Fish Dream (Lowlife OST, 2013) Fundog 30. Seth A Smith: The Crescent (The Crescent OST, 2018) Cutofftail/Label Obscura 31. Seth A Smith: They Are All Waiting for You (The Crescent OST, 2018) Cutofftail/Label Obscura 32. Seth A Smith: Lullaby (The Crescent OST, 2018) Cutofftail/Label Obscura 33. Seth A Smith: The Last Bell Does Tall (Tin Can OST, 2022) Label Obscura 34. Seth A Smith: Tin Can [Sonata K34] (Tin Can OST, 2022) Label Obscura 35. Seth A Smith: The Chrysalis (Tin Can OST, 2022) Label Obscura 36. Brûlez les Meubles: Argentique (Folio #5, 2024) Circum-Disc From waves to waves, tin cans to SOCAN, we got it all. radiofreegak@gmail.com www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies https://mas.to/@100aire