Bill Callahan - The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10, 2001 Peel SessionDecember 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahans Smog perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of US darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan and band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey, ashen resolve and tour torn flexibility, amassing a bruised, plaintive essence of humanity with their efforts. This one

Dublin historian Donal Fallon has written an essay on Kilmainham Gaol which is featured on the back cover

It’s an anthem for working people who’ve had enough - and a crowd favourite at SUEP gigs

before we begin to rot

Cass McCombs and Rodolphe Burger

psych heads

The album features guest appearances from Berlin legend Blixa Bargeld (The Bad Seeds

Blue Train

and energetic ricocheting between myriad styles of music

This was a mix so giddy

and the rap world is better for it

they dropped a record of beautiful

The arrangements are stripped down to the raw nerve