Wilfully Obscure

Even if the late Lance Loud had never pitched his hat into the nebulous arena of rock/pop music in the 1970s, his legacy would have still b...

From 1982. Far from the weakest link in their chain of good-to-excellent albums, it is however a bit of a guilty pleasure.  To this day I cr...

So I've belatedly come to post the only Angst album I haven't shared previously.  Fittingly it's the last album in their catal...

From 1984. The frontman for this band calls this album his probable favorite by them, and I'm inclined to agree. **Please do not reveal ...

It hasn't exactly been smooth sailing in Wilfully Obscure world this week.  My "rig" for conveying vinyl to a format obtainabl...

A singles & b-sides compilation of this band's intermittently rewarding "middle" era.  Doesn't quite beat the early st...

Yesterday was Record Store Day (technically the first of two 2021 "drops" thereof).  In the past I've occasionally shared pur...

Yet another record I don't own a physical variation of, so thanks in advance to whomever went to the task of ripping this.  This southwe...

This is probably my favorite album of the last three years. A bit left-field for what I offer, even by MM standards. Enjoy (or not). **Pleas...

Yep, you can discern by the cover alone what this one is all about.  Goth. Darkwave. Deathrock. Embrace it or dismiss it. In the case of the...

Back in the mid-90s, a lot of us who indie folk who got off on Tsunami's guitars-y, but constructive angst (and even front-woman/wunder...

Ingeniously tweaked indie/tronica circa 2010. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear  

So I was a little on the fence about posting this one, because frankly I'm not even sure if I'm down with it.  The Barking Boys wer...

From 2004. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

I can't believe it hasn't occurred to me share this one after all this time (maybe another blogger had this comp covered and I simpl...

Brock Pytel isn’t exactly a household name, so if I may impart a crash course, he was half of the singing/songwriting force behind Montreal...

These '80s wise-asses finally got a bit more serious when the next decade caught up with them. This one includes an intriguing rewrite o...

With it's rather obnoxious and LOUD, flared-out lettering adorning the sleeve, you might venture a guess that The Flex were a cabal of ...

Sorry no lyrical clue this week. This is from 2003, and if you're into the sonic templates laid out by bands like Pinback and Wheat this...

This is merely a self "curated" pastiche of various Mark Burgess and/or Chameleons tracks stitched together from bootlegs and fa...

Sybil .  Co-ed (weighted kinda heavily to the female end of the spectrum) Seattle denizens who later expanded their moniker to Kill Sybil f...

From 1996. Despite being released by a major label, this one might have met a better fate had this trio stayed indie.   **Please do not reve...

The largely under-referenced (online anyway) Brakes were a London quartet, falling several few notches shy of punk. Think more along the li...

I hope you willing to indulge me this week with one of my most listened to albums of the last six months.  It's a tribute album filled w...

Yet another Beantown proposition, who to their/our detriment only produced this one platter, a mere ep no less, but hey, I'll take six s...