24 September 2026 – They Are Gutting a Body of Water Build a 29-Track DIY Shoegaze Universe

Philadelphia's They Are Gutting a Body of Water have announced Kool Faith / Loosies II, a sprawling 29-track mixtape due digitally October 16 and physically November 20 through ATO and Julia's War. If the phrase "29-track shoegaze mixtape" sounds like somebody has finally weaponised Bandcamp culture, the guest list only deepens the impression.

Spirit of the Beehive, Hotline TNT, RXK Nephew, Greg Mendez, Horse Jumper of Love, Full Body 2, FearDorian and many more artists from TAGABOW's wider orbit appear across the project. Three songs arrive immediately: "Kool Marder" featuring Cashier, "The Rook" and "Free Willy." Rather than behaving like a conventional follow-up album, Kool Faith / Loosies II looks more like a document of a community, pulling together collaborators from DIY rock, shoegaze, rap and the Julia's War ecosystem.

That makes the intimidating length part of the point. TAGABOW have always treated genre as porous and production as something capable of making guitars feel simultaneously enormous and strangely damaged. A mixtape format lets that instinct expand without pretending every experiment belongs inside a tidy album narrative. In an era when playlists routinely flatten scenes into algorithms, there is something appealingly human about a band simply inviting nearly everybody they know into one enormous, fuzzy room.