Listeners are in for an esoteric time-travel vacation on this episode of Music In Time, as host Evan McCormick explores why it is that shoegaze music seems to make the perfect soundtrack to the summer months. Something about the enveloping, spacey texture of guitar drones, the waves of loud and quiet, the emotional resonance -- it all just seems to fit with the romanticism of sun-drenched days, gloomy stretches of rain, long evenings dissolving into night. The episode features tunes from shoegaze classics and lesser-known albums that came out during the summer of their respective release years. It's a whole vibe. 

1. Misery - Winter and Horse Jumper of Love (2025)
2. 40 Days - Slowdive (1993)
3. Already There - The Verve (1993)
4. Rip - Ringo Deathstarr (2012)
5. How Does It Feel to Look Like Candy - Swervedriver (1995)
6. Losing Touch With My Mind - Spacemen 3 (1986)
7. Happy When It Rains (1987)
8. Slow - My Bloody Valentine (1988)
9. Coming Back - Revolver (1993)
10. Lit Up - Lush (1994)
11. Glimmer - Bailter Space (1995)
12. In The Z Plane - Winter (2020)
13. charlie - terraplana (2025)

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Host Evan McCormick uses different formats to play with the idea of music in time—sometimes focusing on a single album and detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release, sometimes putting together playlists that explore a theme or concept in songs through the years. Each broadcast asks: how is music shaped by its own historical moment, and, in turn, how does music shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he uses oral history interviews to understand how people remember and make sense of the past. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.