Completely Conspicuous 592: Right in the Middle

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the first half of 2022. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ - Breitling's #5: Papercuts with a solid effort featuring gratuitious Mellotron - Kumar's #5: Spoon serves up a quality dollop of Spoon - Breitling's #4: Elvis Costello in his occasional rock mode - Kumar's #4: The Smile fills the gap between Radiohead albums with a pretty damn good album - Kumar's #3: Oceanator brings the heat with revved-up guitar attack and a Doofenshmirtzian name - Kumar with the prog-rock contacts - Breitling's #3: WEMA is a London-based Tanzanian electronic act playing hypnotic worldbeat - Kumar's #2: Superchunk with a strong but restrained effort looking at life during a pandemic - Breitling's #2: Debut EP from SF act Neutrals that pushes shorter indie rock songs into long songs - Kumar's #1: Toronto punk-pop act PUP with a great concept album about a band named PUP breaking up - Breitling's #1: Debut album from Chicago's Horsegirl is full of "wall-to-wall bangasauruses" - Looking forward to new releases from Kiwi Jr., Built to Spill, Ty Segall, Sloan, Afghan Whigs Completely Conspicuous is available through the Apple Podcasts directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.