Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a welcome for joyous noise, for those navigating what Beckett called “this bitch of an earth.”

Visitation

Eyes rolling in all 
of this boiling air.

From cradle to candle,
from candle to curse,
from host to ghost,
from fear to hearse.

Ah,  the bright cosmos, 
such an angry wet nurse.

Cradle to Candle
Listen on Tidal. Listen on Spotify.

1. “K4 Fairlands” – JSquarepusher
2. “Carrion Ladder” – Archspire
3. “LOVE!” – Destin Conrad
4. “Decorticate Congregation” – Mutilation Barbecue
5. “Telilite” – Group Inerane
6. “Puna 2” – Olaf Rupp. Meinrad Kneer, Rudi Fischerlehner
7. “Plague of Flies” – Bodysnatcher
8. “Bricks On the Table” – NxxxxxS
9. “Phantom Limb” – Julia Pratt, JULITH
10. “Opposite Teacher” – My New Band Believe
11. “Former Shells” – Amulets
12. “My Old Horse Died” – Dock Boggs
13. “Some Kind of Antichrist” – Melvins, Napalm Death
14. “Don’t Explain” – Abbey Lincoln

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473 & 666) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror DNA and is the substitute low end wrangler for Mobile-based punk rock band Future Hate. You can find out more about his work here.