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Category Archives: Check Out This Song
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Joshua Dennis – “Hold On Till Dawn”
Joshua Dennis – who has appeared on Ball of Wax under a few different monikers over the years – wrote this song the day after election day, after a restless night/morning. He’s based on the east coast now, so it … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: James Kelly Pitts – “God Is Not a Cop”
In hushed tones barely louder than a whisper, James Kelly Pitts exhorts the listener to “Do anything at all.” Simple guitar chords and minimalist percussion frame this quiet demand to break the inertia of the everyday and to think past … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Virgin of the Birds – “Delco Saved the World”
In the Virgin of the Birds Cinematic Universe (or the VOBCU, itself a subsidiary of the Ball of Wax Cinematic Universe, aka the BOWCU), Pennsylvania is our HQ. Jon Rooney (humble leader of Virgin of the Birds) is making it … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Invasion Boys – “Bone Tired”
Taking their name from a line from a Guided By Voices b-side (“Playing tricks on the invasion boys”), I was on their side even before I hit play. Daunting, true, but the song earns my faith. My suspicion is this … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Love Scenes – “A Smooth Transition”
Man, you know what I miss? Being in a room with two other people, playing music together. Sometimes you play actual songs, sometimes you just mess around with riffs and try things out, and sometimes the messing around turns into … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Nonetheless Notwithstanding Feat. Sceneries Placements – “Precedence”
For a song that, melodically speaking, has about six notes (two different repeating three-note melodies that each occupy the first two quarters of the running time), there is a lot going on in “Precedence.” Which is fitting, I suppose, given … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Darryl Blood – “Possibilities”
If Drekka’s track ended with someone whistling as they walk, attempting to comfort themselves in an unsettling situation, Darryl Blood‘s “Possibilities” continues that anxious perambulation, but the whistling has stopped, and at the beginning all we have is footsteps. A … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Drekka – “Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
The Internet is quite a thing. Thanks to the magic of Google, I am easily able to impersonate someone who knows the Bible from the phone book, and inform you that the title for this haunting piece of minimalism from … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: KO SOLO – “Interspacial”
Reggie: Have you ever swum in a silo of pudding? Francis: You mean, like a giant enclosed vat of salt water jello? Reggie: Yeah, like if they made an ocean-sized womb of saline gelatin. Francis: I wonder what it would … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: secret monkey – “time unties itself”
With this woozy dreamscape of a track from secret monkey, we have, for a time, pivoted from topical/literal to abstract interpretations of our current moment – or, to be more precise, the current moment of six weeks ago, which it … Continue reading