Song of the day – 432: The Twerps + bonus album review
The album’s centrepiece, the five-minute long Jam Song, is a slow-burning tour de force, caged by desperation.
Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder (Tri-Angle)
It’s the difference between internet porn and actual sex, between Beavis and Bolaño, amusement and art.
Song of the day – 431: Teeth (Rock Vs Cancer. Rock Wins.)
Bangs damn it, we would’a KILLED for music this focused, tightly coiled, back in 1990
The Curious Case of The Antlers
If after six plays of a song you are left with absolutely no idea what it sounds like it has surely failed some kind of crucial test.
Trailer Trash Tracys – Ester (Double Six/Domino)
Ester is a perfect debut album. It suggests that the Tracys are liable to head in any direction, including some we haven’t even imagined.
One-word reviews? Here are 20 more
Witness, and pay tribute at the throne of the One, the Only, the True Word.
One-word reviews? Here’s a few
Spectral.
NME introduces the one-word music review
As noted in last Thursday’s post, veteran music rag Spin has pronounced the traditional album review dead.
excerpted from ‘Paul Weller – The Changing Man’ (Paolo Hewitt, 2011)
In later years, Everett True at Melody Maker would regularly review Paul’s records with just one word: wanker.
Brian Wilson tired of music critics putting him in a box
Turns out some cold-hearted bastard had gotten Brian in a box and then nailed it shut. It took me almost an hour to get him out.
