Shemp Tropical by The Fred Karger Memorial Lump Band

Every passing day normalizes increasingly ridiculous world events, as satire and reality slowly collapse in on themselves until they become indistinguishable. Envisioning a near future where this trend rapidly accelerates, Shemp Tropical by The Fred Karger Memorial Lump Band uses a highly novel, progressive, challenging sound to create a future current events podcast that realizes the worst of today’s psychedelic nightmares. Free jazz roots animate the record’s core sound, throwing each track into sonic chaos as each moment of harmonious cooperation seemingly occurs entirely by accident. All the while, the wild ramblings of our hosts pull us into this disappointingly believable universe, one marred by increasingly pointless political violence and simultaneously obsessed with the most bizarre brand of pop culture drama. An uncomfortable sound combined with an unsavory fictional future shock us into an appreciation of the current moment’s relative calm, reminding us that today is the least exciting day in the rest of our news-consuming lives, begging us to strengthen our resolve against the insane world that lies ahead.