After a bit of a hiatus, Song Of The Week returns to The Futurist this week, even though Mike is absent and out of town. Take a peek at a choice by Shiv and Joe and please feel free to leave your choices in the comments……

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Matt Shiv - Robert Pollard - “Rud Fins” from the CD Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love

Even though I was never what you could call a hardcore fan of GBV, I’ve always had an affinity for the music of Robert Pollard. I think that part of it comes from growing up in Dayton, but mostly it is because the man knows how to write some well-crafted tunes. Sometimes you have to wade through 6 songs that don’t even hit 2 minutes in length to get to them, but they are always in there somewhere.

This week, Bob released two separate albums on the same day from Merge Records. If you manage to somehow keep up with his musical output, you’ll know that this doesn’t even reflect half of the material that Bob will have recorded and released through various means before the year ends. I’ve never paid much attention to the myriad of smaller releases he embarks on, but I must admit to being pleasantly surprised after getting through Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love.

His song titles still appear like they’re plucked randomly out of a hat or a hazy late night game of Mad Libs, but ‘Coast’ contains some terrific little gems like this.

Robert Pollard - Rud Fins

Joe Long - Working For A Nuclear Free City, “Troubled Son” from the CD Businessmen & Ghosts

This song from WFANFC is actually from their debut album, but it never saw a release here in the states back then. It is however a part of the double disc US debut from the band, Businessmen & Ghosts. The set takes tunes from their debut full length, the Rocket EP and includes a bunch of new songs as well for what is one of the best debut’s this year. The band combine strong dance beats with distorted vocals that in the end, simply rock. I can easily say that if you enjoy this song, the album is something you should look into.

Take a look and listen to this song, Troubled Son, which can be found on the Businessmen disc of the 2 CD set from the band, the video also was the runner up at the Manchester Film Festival in 2005.

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