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Go Public’s New EP
PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC: Athens multi--instru
mentalist, songwriter and music instructor
Julia Nyunt just released her second single
of the year, and it’s named “Good Feeling.”
It straddles a super-fine line between being
straight-up R&B and simply R&B-adjacent.
It’s got all the horns and swingy rhythms
of early-mid 1970s soul, but also a decent
smidge of self-care comfort a la Edie
Brickell, although I would say Nyunt’s voice
is stronger. The single released earlier this
year, “Radio,” is similar in tone and vibe,
but without the pronounced horn arrange
ment. It’s a smoother and, indeed, lovelier
exhibition of Nyunt’s vocal skills, which are
absolutely spot on. Find each of these on
Spotify, and for more information, please
see facebook.com/JuliaNyuntmusic.
READY ORR NOT: As promised a few weeks
ago, when Flagpole premiered the video for
lead single “We Stuff,” the new album by
Joe Orr is out now on Arfus Records. It’s
titled Very Much Alive
and, once again, Orr
has delivered an album
packed with hooks
that suffers only from
lack of editorial over
sight. Not only do the
songs “Make It Work
(Let Me Go Berserk),”
“Book Report” and
“Satan and His Rapidly
Approaching Army of
Winged Henchmen”
not belong on this
album, they don’t
belong on any album anywhere ever. Now,
that said, when Orr is dialed into his pure
power pop sensibilities, he not only deliv
ers, but sounds more confident in doing so.
Nearly any of these songs could be singles.
Especially “Lovin’ Me, Lovin’ Me, Lovin’
Me,” “Feels So Real” and “High School Is
Over” which starts with what could’ve
at one time been a great opening riff for
an Alice Cooper track. And while it didn’t
appear so at first listen, closing song “Please
Cooperate” shares similar intellectual aes
thetics, and decidedly not musical ones,
with Game Theory, which was a nice con
nection to realize, even if Orr didn’t intend
it. You can find this digitally on all major
streaming services, and find physical com
pact discs in local shops as well as at arfus-
records.com. For more information, you can
try the rarely updated facebook.com/joeorr-
band or the much more frequently updated
facebook.com/arfusrecords.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET: The new self-titled EP
from Go Public is out now. This is a legiti
mate Athens supergroup composed of Jay
Domingo (The Dignity of Labor), Adrian
Finch and SA Rawls (each of Masters of
the Hemisphere and then Elf Power and
Still Flyin’, respectively), and Sam Gunn
(Iron Hero). And what they’ve made is,
indeed, super. The seven songs here are so
completely representative of the band’s cho
sen aesthetic and sound—heavily rhythmic
and propulsive, aggressive post-punk—that
it’s almost as if the past 40 years never
happened. It’s a nearly perfect marriage
between everything that was ever loved
about A Certain Ratio and pre-1986 Public
Image Ltd. Each song is so stupendously
composed, arranged and performed, I can’t
even be bothered to recommend specific
ones. There is, however, something of an
Easter egg available to careful listeners.
Knowing these dudes’ pedigrees and ages,
no one will ever convince me that the horn
riff in “Fresh Neg” isn’t an interpolation
of the vocal melody from Genesis’ “That’s
All.” Find this as quickly as you can over at
gopublic.bandcamp.com.
GROWLERS SOLD AND SERVICED: Thrash mon
sters Beast Mode have loosed the hounds
of hell and dropped a new single named
“The Forge.” It’s from the group’s upcoming
EP, Seventh Solstice, which is due for release
Feb. 17. In a press release the band said the
title track was “originally written in 2019
for a mock ‘super
group’ project under
the name ‘01engeist,’”
which I’m assuming is
a goal lost to the ether
now. The new single
was written specifi
cally for this release.
The upcoming EP also
features re-recordings
of two songs—“Be
coming the Beast” and
“Blasphemy”—from
the band’s 2016 album
Blood Moon. Find the
new single at beastmodega.bandcamp.com,
and keep up with the guys via facebook.
com/BeastModeGa.
MUSIC AND MEMORIES: The Hey, You! Hoe-
Down Music Festival & Art Auction
happens Saturday, Dec. 10 from 2-8 p.m. at
Athentic Brewing Company. This event is a
benefit for the Carrie Fischer Siegmund
Fund for Classroom Innovation.
Siegmund, who died last December, is
remembered as a beloved instructor and
professional with Clarke County Schools.
She was specifically dialed into instructional
technology, and at the end of her career
was director of innovation and learning
design at the Northeast Georgia Regional
Education Service Agency. This fundraiser
is in support of the The Carrie Fischer
Siegmund Grant, which is to be “awarded to
an educator who seeks to inspire through
innovative, interdisciplinary, and meaning
ful learning that results in a long-lasting
impact on students.” The live music lineup
includes Climbing Cedars, 38 Strings, Red
Oak String Band, EDDie halfasS (sic) and
Custom Concern. There is an art auction,
too, with works from Dan Smith, Marisa
Leilani Mustard, Jason Thrasher, Jamie
Calkin, Sarah Cook, Elise Siegmund and
more. This event is free and open to the
public. For more information on the fund,
please see bit.ly/SiegmundClassroomFund,
and for more event-specific information,
please see facebook.com/athenticbrewing. ©
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