Frances the Mute

03/15/25 • 116 min

This week-- We represent o sweet Paris with the Frenchest album yet -- France's the Mute. Sorry that doesn't really work but the idea there was that I typed this whole thing and almost posted it spelled "Francis the Mute" which is a better title, simple as. Frances is like the lady Francis right? Or is Francis not a name? We delve into that and it makes about as much sense as the rest of the lyrics on this album.

Also up for discussion: anise is a Foreign Flavour, 3 albums from 3 decades get 3 seconds of recognition from 3 guys (Interstella 3333), and much more I presume.

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Also up for discussion: anise is a Foreign Flavour, 3 albums from 3 decades get 3 seconds of recognition from 3 guys (Interstella 3333), and much more I presume.

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Previous Episode

Worry

Tonight: Someone is going to bleed and dribble trails in the snow for this very special 1-year anniversary episode of the seminal (note to self, google "seminal" to make sure it's not the other thing) episode of 10/10 You Are Great! For this very specialsode join us as we explore Jeff Rosenstock's classic record WORRY. and also worry about our lives, our futures, our pasts and Katy's Perry's future as an astronaut.

And as always, 9 times out of 10 we'll be posting for you.

POST-ing for you.

Ska Dream.

The Album: Jeff Rosenstock - Worry (2016)

Album Anniversary: Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool? (2015). Read Chris' retrospective piece here.

New Discoveries: Frog - 1000 Variations on the Same Song, Saorise Dream - Saorise Dream

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Next Episode

Stay Home!! — with Evan

This week the boys* decidedly did not Stay Home!! (they are in Tokyo) so we're airing a pre-recorded episode** about punk music. It is hard to say more from Tokyo each time I type something good it gets caught in the intercontinental wires, an excuse that I’m sure is true. Fortunately our guest Evan is much better at explaining things so I will leave him to it.

*Chris did Stay Home!!

**We recorded it two days earlier than normal

Also up for discussion: A Reno reminiscence (Renominiscence for short), Brazilian shoegaze is unearthed, Egg punk drama(?), and an oral history of what it’s like to work at Pitchfork and piss off Flying Lotus.

The Guest: Evan Minsker of see-saw. After a twelve-year run at Pitchfork, Evan started his own punk rock publication where you can find in-depth pieces, interviews, lists, you know all the stuff. He also co-hosts Punk This Week with our friend Nina Corcoran where they discuss snacks and six cool new punk records every week. He’s got a boppin’ Discord channel and a bunch of cool projects and events in the pipeline.

Evan’s on Bluesky and Instagram and probably other places too but that’s what his website is for.

The Album: Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - Stay Home!! (2014)

You can find Evan’s oral history of the album here

New Discoveries: Cult Crime - Self-Titled, terraplana - natural

Showtime: Yuasa-Exide

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