They Are Gutting a Body of Water Announce Mixtape, Share Three Tracks

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.

Find They Are Gutting a Body of Water Tickets

Advertisement

“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.”

Related Video

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).

Advertisement

KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II Artwork:

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

Load More Login to join the conversation. Login

_Originally reported by [Consequence](https://consequence.net/2026/09/they-are-gutting-a-body-of-water-new-mixtape-kool-faith-loosies-ii/)._