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This episode's Pick Five theme is a bit tricky to define - we're talking about band's we often splash out for. Now, that could just be a simple expenditure of money but could also encompass travel or time spent researching and keeping up with. To use wrestling parlance, which specific bands are we marks for? We hope it'll become clear over the body of the episode. We also have a whole slew of live business to discuss, with Bruce catching the Immortalis tour in Vancouver and Alex heading out to Toronto to see the long awaited live incarnation of The Tear Garden.

On this episode we're discussing the life and legacy of Das Ich's Bruno Kramm in the wake of his tragic passing as well as the one LP released under his solo project, Coeur by Kramm. We're also recapping a couple of shows from this past weekend.

Our monthly commentary podcast takes a slightly autumnal turn with the ethereal wave mastery of California's Claire Voyant. Their sophomore LP Time And The Maiden isn't just a watershed moment for the band, but arguably for an entire wave of likeminded 90s acts who never quite reached the depths of composition and subtlety that Claire Voyant did here.

Get Mean, the new LP by Boy Harsher, is up for discussion on this week's episode. We're talking about the record's shift away from the oft-imitated sound pioneered by the duo, its releases on a major label, and the new metrics by which its sound and songwriting need to be evaluated.

We're dancing with the ones that brought us to the podcasting hoedown on this episode, as we discuss a pair of industrial records from the might aughts: Landscape Body Machine's Manifest Destiny and Haujobb's Vertical Theory. There's loads to be said about each LP in their own historical moment, and how we're now looking back at that time decades on, as well as within the catalogs of the artists themselves.