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Here's the latest from former TX resident Rangers, taken from his forthcoming EP (possible LP?), coming sometime in the next few months. Like a lot of his best jams -- don't sleep on the Suburban Tours LP that dropped on OESB earlier this year -- "Zombies" elicits kind of a warped AM-radio funk meets melting/decayed '80s health class filmstrip (as scored by The Doldrums-era Ariel Pink)

Video by Zahid Jiwa. Catch Rangers at SXSW here, here, and here. Suburban Tours is out now on Olde English Spelling Bee. ******

Here's a great new mixtape from former TX resident Joe Knight -- aka Rangers -- whose stellar new LP, Suburban Tours, was influenced by Knight's youth spent in a faceless Dallas suburb, and has been described as sounding like "a lost Steely Dan session recorded onto a mangled microcassette tape...

New track from San Francisco-via-Dallas "elevator psyche" dude Rangers, sent over by Olde English Spelling Bee, who will be releasing Rangers' Suburban Tours LP later this year. "Deerfield Village" is my favorite thing he's done so far, and fans of Ariel Pink, '70s educational filmstrips, and the current crew of 'hypnagogic pop'/chillfiwavedreambeatcore bands will surely dig hi

Hazy new "elevator psyche" jam from ex-Texan and new Not Not Fun signee Rangers: mp3: Culled from the excellent (free) new Friendship Bracelet Club compilation, which also features stellar, previously unreleased jams from Forest Swords, Julian Lynch, Tonstartssbandht, Dem Hunger, Pure Ecstacy, and many more...