The theme for this episode of The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio is pretty straightforward if you listen. It’s comfort songs. You would not necessarily believe that of a playlist that opens with Total Fucking Destruction doing the title-track of an album called To Be Alive at the End of the World, but again, once you listen, it’s actually kind of soothing. There’s a fair amount of instrumental material included, led off by Yawning Man, and I think the part with Vinnum Sabbathi and Forming the Void is probably as heavy as it gets, though that new Elephant Tree track certainly has some roll to it. God damn that’s a good song, not that that’s a huge surprise from those guys.

I haven’t cut the voice breaks for it yet but will do so sometime before this is posted, but I intend to talk a bit about the Om song and my association with their early work and seeing them at SXSW for what I think might’ve been the first time. It was a while ago and it’s hard to remember for a few reasons, but anyway, if I can remember it between typing this and speaking that, I hope to speak to it a bit, because I know that’s not their most soothing stuff by a long shot, but the memory I have of it puts it in that framework for me. Closing with YOB’s “Marrow” was, of course, a given.

Thanks for listening if you do. I hope you enjoy, and if you see this and don’t listen, then thanks for reading. If you’re not reading, well, you’ll never know you were being thanked.

The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at http://gimmeradio.com

Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 04.03.20

Total Fucking Destruction	To be Alive at the End of the World	To be Alive at the End of the World*
Yawning Man	I Make Weird Choices	Macedonian Lines
Acid King	Center of Everywhere	Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
Colour Haze	Peace, Brothers and Sisters!	Colour Haze
BREAK
Pretty Lightning	Boogie at the Shrine	Jangle Bowls*
Elephant Tree	Bird	Habits*
Charivari	Lotus Eater	Descent*
Tia Carrera	Layback	Tried and True*
Vinnum Sabbathi	Quantum Determinism	Of Dimensions & Theories*
Forming the Void	Manifest	Reverie*
BREAK
Om	Annapurna	Variations on a Theme
YOB	Marrow	Clearing the Path to Ascend

The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is April 17 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.

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Tags: Acid King, Charivari, Colour Haze, Elephant Tree, Forming the Void, Gimme Radio, Om, Pretty Lightning, The Obelisk Show, Tia Carrera, Total Fucking Destruction, Vinnum Sabbathi, Yawning Man, Yob

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