Aug
21
2.59pm

DIRECT HIT! // Tryptamine Tunes They Have Known And Loved


So it turns out that Direct Hit, the Milwaukee punk quartet with a penchant for hallucinogens, really love music when they trip.

Like, really love it. Almost as much as us normal folk love pretending we’re invited to those sort of things. All bands usually do is throw out the playlists they love onto Spotify, while we sit at home with crummy spin filled joints. Not Direct Hit! though; they invited us into their warm world of high times and good vibes. Frontman Nick Woods penned us an explanation of his faves while he passed us a burning torch of mateship. Sick!

Queen of Hearts by Fucked Up

Aside from the obvious connection with this band’s name, this song (really, all of this band’s songs) has about 100,000 different parts and instruments and effects that give listening on headphones a mind-bending kind of depth, not to mention the story, and the ethereal backing vocals.

1983 – Main Theme by Sinoia Caves


This is the best song off the soundtrack for a movie I dig called Beyond The Black Rainbow, which is a totally awesome stoner movie in its own right, but the insane organ soundtrack by Jeremy Schmidt, i.e. Sinoia Caves, from Black Mountain is really what makes the whole thing especially awesome.

Nightcall by Kavinsky


’80s worship pop/electronic. This was the lead song off the soundtrack to Drive. Super catchy, with heavy layers of synth, and an awesome/heavy beat to it.

Anyway by Luke Roberts


This is one of my favorite tunes in the genre I like to call “ridin’ on a train music.” I think some people would call this bluegrass, but I think it’s catchier, and more accessible than most of that genre. The rolling guitars, relaxed vocals, cycling snare, and easy beat make it awesome to just lean back in a couch and close your eyes without it being so chill that you pass out. Kurt Vile kinda has this genre on lock right now, but I like this song most of all.

Whoa by Earl Sweatshirt


Odd Future’s whole catalog is pretty much built to listen to while high, and this is my favorite track of all their group’s output. Rhymes here are so fucking creative, and the imagery conjured up is just so, so weird.



Work Work by clipping.


This is rap music made by on of the dudes in the play Hamilton, which you might expect to be some kinda unifying, feel-good shit, but it’s actually super paranoid, lyrically, with these freewheeling beats that are more just weird collections of noise than the typical 808s.

The Model by Kraftwerk


I love listening to basically any Kraftwerk when in comes to music-on-drugs, but I just picked this song because it’s at the top of their list of tracks on Spotify.

Dragonflies to Sew You Up by Prurient


My brother got me into listening to harsh noise and avant garde sound design for a little while, and so I kept listening to Prurient when he went in a more conventional industrial/electro direction. I had to include something on this list that was harsh and heavy, and stoner metal seemed too obvious, so this is what I’d go after.

The Drink by Secret Mommy


Secret Mommy is the electronic project from this dude named Andy Dixon who released a lot of stranger-sounding punk music through his label Ache Records back in the early ’00s when I was just starting to learn about DIY music, so this song always stuck with me. It’s a super-danceable tune made mostly out of sounds from people swallowing, and pouring water into glasses and shit. It’s so gross to listen to when you’re sober, but it has a kind of almost biological beauty to it when you’re baked.

Artifacts of Sound by So Many Dynamos


I was super into this band in college. The percussion and heavy synth in this tune is so fun, and so catchy, and there are so many layers to it and math problems to do with the rhythm.


Catch Direct Hit! on their first ever Aussie tour this August/September.

DIRECT HIT! AUSTRALIAN TOUR
with guests The Decline

AUGUST 31 – CROWBAR, BRISBANE

SEPTEMBER 1 – HAMILTON STATION HOTEL, NEWCASTLE

SEPTEMBER 2 – SUNKEN MONKEY HOTEL – ERINA (ARVO)

SEPTEMBER 2 – BRIGHTON UP BAR, SYDNEY

SEPTEMBER 3 – RAD BAR, WOLLONGONG

SEPTEMBER 6 – PHOENIX BAR, CANBERRA

SEPTEMBER 8 – CROWN & ANCHOR HOTEL, ADELAIDE

SEPTEMBER 9 – BENDIGO HOTEL, MELBOURNE

Tickets available here.



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