Written by Shea Roney | Photo by Jason Fox

Every Wednesday, the ugly hug shares a playlist personally curated by an artist/band that we have been enjoying. This week we have a collection of songs put together by Donna, Adam, Cody, and Blake of the Austin to New York-based band, Chronophage.

Spanning several years, Chronophage have always mixed the witty and the weary, leading with a bold heart who knows that perfection is a waste of time. Last July, Chronophage released their latest EP, Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship in which the band rips through societal ills and personal quips with what feels to be fresh and inherently hearty practice, these songs lending relief like the dripping discharge of an A/C unit 6 floors up on the hottest day of the year – meddling in the pool of what could be and how it really is. And to their credit, these songs are in no way hopeless, but rather refuse to blow smoke in just any direction. Utilizing loose structures, drenching unconditional melodic prose with the levity of tinkering keys and brash guitars, Chronophage linger in the purity of the ol’ reliable that’s living somewhere between triumph and defeat.

About the playlist, the crew shared;

Here is a playlist! Just a bunch of shite we’ve been listening to (we at this point is Donna, Adam, Cody, and Blake, all in NYC except Adam on tour in Europe with our friend Jana Horn!), on a personal note I would further recommend people check out Controlled Bleeding, who I have been listening to a ton in the last year. Frederic Rzewski, great composer in the left-wing tradition of Cardew, Wolff, and Andriessen. Love the Waterboys, lots of pop music on here but of course have to remind people to listen to PUNK every day lest we chance to forget the fertile field from whence we first took seed. Adam with some Tejano music that it sounds like Austin Powers dubbed over. Chopin- why not? Blake of course is very into Scritti Politti recently, and made a meme involving them and other playlist citizen, Aztec Camera. Wee bit of Akashic synthesizer impressions, no longer palate cleanser but indeed the main course— OOPS! ALL INTERLUDES. Hardrock Gunter is my dad’s uncle, I love showing people this. He coined the term “RockNRoll.” As for us—we’ve got a new album on the way (well, we are still extracting the raw materials from the mine, but it is of course necessary to do this before anything else can happen) on PPM records, and had an EP come out last year, and are gearing up for our “baller year”… can’t wait!

Listen to the playlist made by Chronophage HERE!

You can listen to Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship and other releases from Chronophage now as well order vinyl from the LA-based label Post Present Medium.