They Are Gutting a Body of Water Announce New Mixtape KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II, Unveil Three Songs: Stream
The mashup project features Hotline TNT, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, RXKNephew, Horse Jumper of Love, and Greg Mendez. They Are Gutting a Body of Water Announce New Mixtape KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II, Unveil Three Songs: Stream Eddie Fu
Philadelphia shoegaze band They Are Gutting a Body of Water have announced a new mixtape, KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II . The project is due out October 16th on digital platforms, with a physical release on November 20th via ATO Records x Julia’s War. As a preview, they’ve unleashed a trio of new singles: “kool marder” featuring labelmates Cashier, “the rook,” and “free willy.” Stream all three tracks below.
Clocking in at 28 tracks, KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II features mashups of songs by TAGABOW frontman Doug Dulgarian’s favorite artists, including Hotline TNT, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, RXKNephew, Horse Jumper of Love, and Greg Mendez. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“When I was growing up one of the best ways to listen to music was to grab a thin jewel case mixtape CD from a convenience store, a thrown together fully unlicensed quilt of all your favorite artists by some local guy producing the beats, or mixing and matching vocal stems to proper tempos,” Dulgarian said of the mixtape in a statement. “As you grabbed whatever you needed from the store, five dollars was never too much for like an hour’s worth of music. The art on the front was like firework marketing. ‘Graphic design is my passion’ ass mfs. I miss that spirit sometimes but u can still find it on SoundCloud and YouTube and shit.”
Dulgarian continued, “Sometimes the pairings of artists were incredible, sometimes they were awful. Sometimes I still think that, like wow this vocal would go so good over this completely different song. The difference is now I just go and do it. Hearing the dj interpret the parts really opened up a lot of mental doors for me as an impressionable young guy. The word mixtape initially meant a homespun tape that you typically listened to yourself or gave to somebody else. For me who was born later, it meant mashups of all my favorite artists by local DJs. And so that’s what I did with this one, mashups of all my favorite artists. Shoutout DJ WHITEOWL, RIP.”
TAGABOW previously released a mixtape, swanlike (loosies 2020-2023) , in 2024. Their most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed LOTTO , dropped last year.
Next month, the group will embark on a US tour featuring their largest shows yet. Look for deals and sold-out tickets here (where fans can save $20 on their first order of $200 or more with promo code COS20 at checkout).
KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II Tracklist: 1. sport with Me 2. paint the bride 3. rodman (feat. Hotline TNT) 4. stone driveway bypass (feat. dupontpavilion and beat fella) 5. let it kill you 6. my Happening (feat. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE) 7. 5dime (feat. DJ Manny) 8. kool marder (feat. Cashier) 9. a place where (feat. haloplus+ and Full Body 2) 10. raincheat (feat. Morgan Garrett) 11. the rook 12. old irish (feat. Taurus Judge, Fib, and Melaina Kol) 13. heart knower (feat. Full Body 2) 14. silkscreen rubberhead 15. yellow dolphins (feat. Cooking, RXKNephew, FearDorian, and Izzy Camina) 16. letter and point (feat. Dead Sullivan and Scarlet Rae) 17. green goblin (feat. Hooky) 18. illusion hue (feat. Toner) 19. happy as a favor (feat. Tony Bontana and Hooky) 20. charter spec (feat. Horse Jumper of Love) 21. am i wrong (feat. A Country Western and Dead Sullivan) 22. baiting breath (feat. Her New Knife) 23. size of a building (feat. Hooky) 24. roku city hardcore (feat. Cooking) 25. God’s little clown (feat. Greg Mendez) 26. the day the river flows backwards (feat. Options) 27. Swoon (feat. Total Wife) 28. town crier (feat. LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) and Full Body 2) 29. free willy
They Are Gutting a Body of Water 2026 Tour Dates: 10/29, Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar 10/30, Norfolk, VA @ The Annex 10/31, Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern 11/01, Greenville, SC @ Radio Room 11/04, Houston, TX @ Numbers 11/06, El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace 11/07, Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress 11/09, Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda 11/10, Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s 11/11, Santa Cruz, CA @ Felton Music Hall 11/12, San Francisco, CA @ August Hall 11/13, Sacramento, CA @ The Red Museum 11/14, Reno, NV @ Holland Project 11/17, Fort Collins, CO @ Sound Bar 11/19, Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck 11/20, St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway 11/21, Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 11/22, Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups 12/10, Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw 12/18, Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
