Monday, August 18, 2025

various artists - Mojo Presents: Panic (15 Tracks Of Riotous '80s Indie Insurrection)

Let the record show that I am quite disgusted with myself.

I hate that I'm posting this late. Sure, it's still Monday when I post this, but I try to keep two or three posts in the queue at all times, and I've been blowing it lately. Such is summer; it's nice here, even as we edge closer and closer to the start of the wet season.

These are the songs your older cousin, the one who spent a semester abroad while you were wrapping up middle school, put on the mixtape she made for your 13th birthday. It reminds me of phrases like "Distributed by the Cartel" or "reviewed in Sounds". It''s not even a typical sampling of what was happening in the mid-80s. Hell, I love that it's a compilation including Robert Wyatt, the Mekons, Billy Bragg AND Girls At Out Best. Brilliant stuff.

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