Jun 5, 2018
One of the vital inventive rock bands round immediately is
Virginia-based indie rock trio The Duskwhales. Drummer/singer Chris
Baker joins me to speak about their new EP, Hospital
Goals, a set of melancholic, folky acoustic songs he wrote
whereas battling most cancers. On this episode I additionally focus on the
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s controversial Heavenly Our bodies
exhibit, and provides a few film suggestions.
Hyperlinks
Take heed to and buy Hospital Goals on Bandcamp
https://theduskwhales.bandcamp.com/album/hospital-dreams
My interview with The Duskwhales about their 2017 album
Sorrowful Mysteries https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1473
Comply with The Duskwhales on Fb https://www.fb.com/TheDuskwhales/
Timestamps
1:32 Heavenly Our bodies exhibit on the Metropolitan Museum of
Artwork
Film suggestions
12:34 Babette’s
Feast
15:28 A Quiet
Place
19:41 Chris Baker interview (songs used with
permission)
20:39 Music: “Hospital Goals” by The Duskwhales
24:32 The story behind Hospital Goals: Chris’s
most cancers
27:41 Writing songs as a approach of occupying time throughout chemo
28:42 Music dialogue: “Hospital Goals”
29:57 You may’t spell the phrase “chemotherapy” with out “mom”:
Mary in “
All Her Marvel” and “Flip White”
32:20 The band’s first time self-recording
33:56 Plans for a trilogy of albums
35:20 Keyboardist Brian Majewski’s departure and return
36:10 Hospital Goals cowl artwork
37:23 Chris’s ill-fated however diverting Twitter marketing campaign
38:09 The Duskwhales’ future
39:02 Music Chris is at the moment listening to; influences on
Hospital Goals
44:25 Weekly excerpt: Hans Urs von
Balthasar