They Are Gutting a Body of Water (TAGABOW) will release their new mixtape KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II, on October 16th digitally and November 20th physically via ATO Records x Julia’s War. Ahead of it’s arrival, they are sharing the tracks “kool marder (ft. Cashier),” “the rook,” and “free willy.” The mixtape features SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, haloplus+, Full Body 2, Greg Mendez, Hotline TNT, DJ Manny, LUCY (Cooper B. Handy), RXKNephew, and many more.

Dulgarian elaborates: “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. 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.

“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.”

KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II is the follow-up to TAGABOW’s 2025 record LOTTO. It proved to be a breakthrough, championed by fans and the press, with New York Times, New Yorker, Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Ringer, and more deeming it one of the best albums of the year. As the Ringer raves, “They Are Gutting a Body of Water ha[ve] long been the perfect underground heroes for this moment.”

They Are Gutting a Body of Water
KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II
Tracklist
Julia’s War Recordings/ATO Records

1. sport with Me
2. paint the bride
3. rodman (ft. Hotline TNT)
4. stone driveway bypass (ft. dupontpavilion, beat fella)
5. let it kill you
6. my Happening (ft. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE)
7. 5dime (ft. DJ Manny)
8. kool marder (ft. Cashier)
9. a place where (ft. haloplus+, Full Body 2)
10. raincheat (ft. Morgan Garrett)
11. the rook
12. old irish (ft. Taurus Judge, Fib, Melaina Kol)
13. heart knower (ft. Full Body 2)
14. silkscreen rubberhead
15. yellow dolphins (ft. Cooking, RXKNephew, FearDorian, Izzy Camina)
16. letter and point (ft. Dead Sullivan, Scarlet Rae)
17. green goblin (ft. Hooky)
18. illusion hue (ft. Toner)
19. happy as a favor (ft. Tony Bontana, Hooky)
20. charter spec (ft. Horse Jumper of Love)
21. am i wrong (ft. A Country Western, Dead Sullivan)
22. baiting breath (ft. Her New Knife)
23. size of a building (ft. Hooky)
24. roku city hardcore (ft. Cooking)
25. God’s little clown (ft. Greg Mendez)
26. the day the river flows backwards (ft. Options)
27. Swoon (ft. Total Wife)
28. town crier (ft. LUCY (Cooper B. Handy), Full Body 2)
29. free willy

TAGABOW 2026 Tour Dates

Thu. Oct. 29 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar – SOLD OUT
Fri. Oct. 30 – Norfolk, VA @ The Annex
Sat. Oct. 31 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
Sun. Nov. 1 – Greenville, SC @ Radio Room
Wed. Nov. 4 – Houston, TX @ Numbers
Fri. Nov. 6 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
Sat. Nov. 7 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
Mon. Nov. 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda
Tue. Nov. 10 – Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
Wed. Nov. 11 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Felton Music Hall
Thu. Nov. 12 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
Fri. Nov. 13 – Sacramento, CA @ The Red Museum – SOLD OUT
Sat. Nov. 14 – Reno, NV @ Holland Project
Tue. Nov. 17 – Fort Collins, CO @ Sound Bar
Thu. Nov. 19 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
Fri. Nov. 20 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
Sat. Nov. 21 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sun. Nov. 22 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
Thu. Dec. 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw – SOLD OUT
Fri. Dec. 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

Order KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II by They Are Gutting a Body of Water HERE