Zettajoule is the KUTX Artist of the Month for November.
Austin’s Zettajoules make pop music that’s skewed around the edges. Part of that is due to economic circumstances: when Meggan Carney and Matthew Sheffer sat down to record a batch of songs for their EP Always Looking Up, they simply couldn’t afford a fancy studio. So they captured the whole thing on their iPhones, and the result is a collection of songs that are catchy but smudged with homemade fingerprints.
Carney and Sheffer bring that same energy to their guest DJ set this week. A lot of the songs they pick are home-recorded bits of inspired fun, and you can see where they draw some influence from. Hear Zettajoule’s My KUTX on Saturday, November 24 at 6 p.m. or listen anytime at the bottom of the page.
–Art Levy // producer, My KUTX
Playlist:
[intro music: Zettajoule – “No Thank You”]
1. R. Stevie Moore – “Cool Daddio”
2. Honeymoon Killers – “Décollage”
3. Harriet Brown – “ESP”
4. Telex – “I Want Your Brain”
5. Noël Coward – “What’s Going To Happen To The Tots?”
6. The Tammys – “Egyptian Shumba”
7. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – “Move Over Moon”
8. Van Hunt – “Puddin’”
9. Lucio Battisti – “Ancora Tu”
10. Yellow Magic Orchestra – “Ongaku”
11. Akiko Yano – “Tong Poo”
12. Blossom Dearie – “I’m Shadowing You”
13. Molly Drake – “I Remember”
