E15 Kentucky Route Zero

A road trip through the Deep South finds Ben and Tao soaring among the clouds and scouring the deepest mines on route to deliver a prize antique in surrealist point-and-click-and-choose-your-own-adventure-kinda, Kentucky Route Zero. From poetry and music to humanity’s impending obsolescence and the nature of, as Tao likes to say, voracious capitalism, no stone is left unturned as the duo try to decipher the impossible. Fasten your seat belts.

Spoilers throughout (but it’s not that kind of game).

Content Warning: PEGI 12. Surprisingly clean fun for once. Just careful of the bears...

Clarifications:

• Tao is referring to the Neil Gaiman book Neverwhere

• Andy Shauf’s bar concept album is Neon Skyline

• Harry James Angus’ album is Little Stories

Audio extracts:

• Barack Obama and crowd chant

• Spaced S01E07 ‘Ends’ (1999) feat Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes

• Greensleeves (anon and F. Cutting) performed by Daniel Estrem on renaissance lute

• Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (1978) saxophone

• OSMOS (2009) game soundtrack

• Billie Piper - Because We Want To (1998)

• Phil Collins - Sussudio (1985)

• The Shining feat. Jack Nicholson and Joe Turkel

• Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline (2020)

• Harry James Angus - The River Queen (2017)

• Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back (1991)

• Twin Peaks OST

• Sunset Overdrive

• Johnny Greenwood’s ‘Spooks’ from the Inherent Vice OST

• Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick