Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
If you’re in downtown Athens, Georgia and you find yourself needing to take a shit, you aren’t going to find a better place to go than the University of Georgia’s main library on north campus.
REVIEWED IN WORDS Animal Collective – Centipede Hz (Domino)
The new Animal Collective album bores the shit out of me. It’s tedious and unimaginative. It is lazy in every conceivable sense — lyrically, melodically, sonically, creatively.
REVIEWED IN WORDS: Cat Power – Sun (Matador)
Sun isn’t as haunting as Moon Pix, but it’s every bit as full. It’s the first Cat Power album that isn’t afraid to look you in the eye. You can dance to it. It’s sexy and confident in a way that makes you feel sexy and confident. It’s a personal triumph as much as a musical one.
Deep Time @ Farm 255, Athens Georgia, 22.08.12
Nobody gives a fuck if you played the song right.
Micachu And The Shapes – Never (Rough Trade)
This is what it feels like to be alive in 2012 — connected to everything and more isolated than ever.
Constants – Pasiflora (The Mylene Sheath)
Hey, do you like Loveless? I mean, REALLY like it? Me too! And guess what! So does Constants!
Bill Doss in remembrance
Music born out of love. There was nothing fashionable, or self-conscious, or uptight about them — they just loved playing music.
Shrag – Canines (Fortuna Pop)
The anger hits; the sadness hurts. There’s nothing cute about this band, not anymore.
Clams Casino – Instrumentals 2 (self-released mixtape)
Why the hell should I sit here for an hour or two racking my brain as I struggle to evoke the beauty, the tragedy and loss of Clams Casino’s music, its programmed swoons and electronic sighs, its music of weeping computers and children trapped in ice, when someone else has already done it?
22 of Scott Creney’s favorite songs of 2012 so far
It wouldn’t be Collapse Board without a little shambling boy-girl indiepop, now would it?
