Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life (Kanine)
Better Luck Next Life is the sound of aristocratic decay. It’s spiritual exhaustion, the crumbling of an empire into petty, isolated camps of self-degradation.
PhD research issue #2. The role of the music critic
I regard a critic as someone who values curiosity over cultural complacency, and knows how to enable this as a practice in others
PhD research issue #1. Trolling
Trolling is a rhetorical strategy that attempts to discredit the conversation or speaker as absurd/obvious or otherwise shift the topic towards some other element of an argument than the one being addressed.
Whitney Houston sings Robert Wyatt (a.k.a. the greatest Whitney cover never heard)
I just thought a few of you might be interested.
Another great band gone. No one notices. No one cares.
They knew the fuck the importance of editing.
There is a Whitney song I like …
Can it really come down to simple tribalism, familiarity? It could, you know. It could.
Song of the day – 441: The Sting-Rays (something wonderful from the 80s)
The aura of menace is palpable, all the better for being kept on a tight leash.
Intelligent women – the best of IDM
Yes, I know it’s a loaded term. IDM. “Intelligent Dance Music”.
Hello from Olympia, WA – 6: Why I Cried when Whitney Died
Who is the singer doing the singing and what is the singer doing the singing actually feeling?
excerpted from an interview with Damon Albarn of Blur, March 1996
I was drunker than a barrelful of Graham Coxons
