Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Sharlese, in honor of World Goth Day, is "Violence" by RATPAJAMA, from the 2023 album The Drunken Lost Tapes on Deepland Records.
This week's Songs of the Day were selected by DJ Sharlese, in honor of World Goth Day. All day on Monday, May 22nd, KEXP will celebrate the sound of darkness, as KEXP DJ’s Evil Eva, Noctis Ravenway, Wednesday Addams, Scary Larry, and Kevin Cole-d Hearted play goth favorites, old and new, from around the world, all day from 7 AM to 7 PM Pacific.
With the release of his latest EP The Drunken Lost Tapes, Ratpajama — the solo darkwave project of Kyara Jereissati (aka Kyro Coma) — seeks to embrace imperfection. (Although today's Song of the Day is a goth-tinged piece of perfection to these ears, with a driving industrial beat that will take you the Batcave, punctuated by Coma's solemn, beautifully detached vocals.)
"Because of my unhealthy perfectionism I couldn't, for a long time, find them good enough to release," he shares on his Bandcamp page. "However, I realized what I had forgotten about what was most important to me in this project: having fun. Now, after a long time, I finally looked at these tracks with a different perspective and I feel extremely fulfilled for being able to share them with you guys."
