BORP 39: Propagandhi's Less Talk More Rock/ Nightcrawler/ Paper and Phantom Brewing

Ok friendos welcome to EP39 of BORP! we have survived the New Years winter Armageddon to bring you, the listener (!), yet another round of Mick and Tristan's inane banter. When we are on point we discuss a wide range of interesting music and film, however the conversation does at a couple points devolve into discussing Mickey's beard. Again. Elsewhere Tristan goes on a rueful, weather related rant regarding his woefully inadequate garbage service. Don't Get him started! Lets dig in.

For our beverage picks (11:15) Mick and Tristan take a deep look into the still emergent co-op/ contract brewing industry and how it is changing our perspective of how craft beer can work. To that end we try two beers from the Vancouver based Craft Collective: The Paper Brewing Navigating Darkness Stout, and the Phantom Brewing Remembering Tomorrow IPA. We had a ton of fun checking out two of the newest kids on the block.

Mickey picked the album (30:23) this week and went with one of his all time favourites and influential albums of his formative years: the incendiary and political thrasher of a punk album, Less Talk More Rock by Manitoba hooligans Propagandhi. We look back on the rise and fall and evolution of the punk band that never fit in, their fearless antagonizing of neo facism, and their apoplectic furor against, not only all the perceived wrongs in the world, but how little their community actually cared. Rest assured they had an answer to it all.

For our film pick (1:22:47)we watched the 2014 nocturnal thriller Nightcrawler. Set upon a beautifully shot LA underbelly at night illuminated by sirens and fraught with tension. The film is a disturbing depiction of moral relativism and how the qualities we associate with heroism can be co-opted by the most insidious of individuals. In an industry already wreaking of corruption, a mysterious Lou Bloom, with his undeleting drive for transactional success, somehow makes everything- and everyone- worse.

For New and Noteworthy (2:00:37)we listen to new stuff from Hether, Wild Nothing, Datach'i, and U.S. Girls.

As we reach the end with Three Questions (2:36:00)Mickey checks in on Winter Tristan and we look back on some early work of Jake Gylenhall. Find the EP on iTunes, Spotify, or right here. Find all the tracks we discuss at length on our EP 39 playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. Be sure to follow us on instagram to stay up to date when new episodes are out. Thanks crew!