Double Agent Double-crossed: Blindfold Test #13

Recurring themes this time out: Catholicism, nonsense syllables, bands whose music here didn’t come out until decades after it was recorded (including a different Red Asphalt than the one in Test #2 though both were evidently named after a graphic scare-you-sober ’60s Drivers Ed film series produced by the California Highway Patrol), Central European art-rock…

Living in Greenland: Blindfold Test #9

Hot trends: (1) Songs that turn into dub versions in the middle and get better when the do; (2) Latin rhythms from non-Latin people; (3) Instrumentals that might have been better with words attached.; (4) Songs by vocal groups where I only noticed one vocalist. Also, in a couple previous blindfold tests, the oldest song…