i like the cut of your jib, my friend... that whole putting a lotta effort into a character ie making a spotify playlist is so rare these days, always appreciated when i see it from others. it's one of the greatest... all the posts, really, not counting malone. post-punk, hardcore, and then the waves... too good
if you're cool with it, we can say they've been buds from way back in the day like a buffet and then recently, like super recently even, the drummer dropped and your dude reached out like hey putz, you want in on this? to which he'd of course graciously accept and we can go from there?