Pleasure Routine, The / Sugar Mountain
Album: Sugar Mountain   Collection:General
Artist:Pleasure Routine, The   Added:Aug 2016
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-08-01 Pull Date: 2016-10-03
Week Ending: Oct 9 Oct 2 Sep 25 Sep 18 Sep 11 Sep 4 Aug 28 Aug 21
Airplays: 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 18, 2023: Wednesday Night Live
Me, The Narcissist
4. Dec 16, 2021: The Library (rebroadcast from Apr 5, 2017)
Two Artists
2. Dec 08, 2022: The Library
Two Artists
5. Aug 26, 2021: The Library (rebroadcast from Nov 22, 2017)
Two Artists
3. Mar 18, 2022: The Library (rebroadcast from Aug 1, 2018)
Two Artists
6. Jul 15, 2021: The Library (rebroadcast from Apr 10, 2019)
Two Artists

Album Review
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2016-08-01
Oakland band plays moody earnest rock n roll rooted in throwbacks to the Velvet Underground, often with blues/folk/twee flourishes. Male and female vocals are often in conversation with each other, and the male vocals sound like a mix of Nick Cave and Lou Reed. Pretty guitars, cute storytelling lyrics, bass holds it all together. Support local music!

RIYL The Velvet Underground, Giorgio Murderer, Girls, Nick Cave
Recommended: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
FCC: 7

1. (5:10) ** Ruins—Slow. Clear soulful female vocals. Minimal instruments besides bass and a plodding drum beat, and brief synth fills. “I should have let you be / And you were beautiful and clean.”
2. (3:29) Wolves & Eyes—Bluesy. Male and female vocals in conversation. Piano riffs, chaotic, playful, fun.
3. (4:08) ** Wires—Drowsy, languid folk. Harmonica, bass groove, slide guitar. Tired dreamy female vox.
4. (3:50) *** Sugar Mountain—Fast, twee, idyllic chiming guitars. Male vocals. Prototypically folk lyrics.
5. (3:32) * Worndrobe—Slow, melancholy. Tears and cigarette smoke weaving into a hazy sunset over some lake in the Midwest. “He’s had what I had, and I’ve had what he’s had.”
6. (5:36) **** Two Artists—Stand out bass. Fast, anthemic. Male sorta spoken word vocals. Late nineties feel but also very Velvet Underground. Wild pretty jammy guitars in last minute and a half.
7. (3:19) Me, the Narcissist—FCC: “fuck”. Playful, fast, punky.
8. (4:55) Walk the Dog (Backwards)—Sort of post-punk, but brighter. Melancholy passages and insistent keys/vocals/guitars alternate.
9. (7:20) *** Young Lover—Mellotron and acoustic guitar, deep Nick Cave-like vocals. Song keeps building and building and adding guitar and percussion textures until its hushed resolution.

Track Listing
1. Ruins   5. Worndrobe
2. Wolves & Eyes   6. Two Artists
3. Wires   7. Me, The Narcissist
4. Sugar Mountain   8. Walk The Dog (Backwards)
  9. Young Lover