For the second week in a row I’m switching up what I was going to write about at the last minute. Before I get to that I wanted to mention that there is a new Hiss Golden Messenger Christmas album, O Come All Ye Faithful, that was released today. I am very excited about it, but I refuse to write about a Christmas album in October so wait for me to circle back around to that one some time after Thanksgiving when it is appropriate to listen to Christmas music. Joy Oladakun also released a phenomenal cover of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” that includes some guitar work by Jason Isbell. It’s everything I love about cover songs, but it’s part of Spotify Sessions, so you can only listen to it on Spotify.

Anyway, what I am actually going to write about is a new album by a local Baltimore band, Angel Du$t. Until this morning I had never heard of this band. I’m not actually that plugged in to the Baltimore music scene. Hence why I have also never heard of the two bands, Turnstile and Trapped Under Ice, that this band is apparently a supergroup of. This album, Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs, was mentioned on NPR’s New Music Friday podcast this morning. I dug it, so I thought I should give the hometown band a little bit of love this morning. I’m going to feature the same song they did, “Love Is the Greatest” because it’s what drew me into listening to the whole album, even though it’s a lot more low key than the other songs on album. Most of the rest of the album is more pop punk. Apparently they wanted to create an album that sounds like your favorite mix tape that you would put on in the car to drive to. I would say for the most part there are a lot of really good driving songs on it, so they mostly met their aim. You’ll have to go look up the rest of the album on your own if you want to hear that though because song is not that.