Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Bon Iver is hazier than you expect. It is lost and narcoticized, simultaneously desperate and asleep.
Pretzel Logic – 4: Absolute (Scritti Politti)
Thus, dear Rikki, I’ve taken to the laws of propositional calculus. Get your think on.
Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night.
5 Music Journalism Clichés Which Should Go Away Forever
1. “(INSERT FEMALE ROCK/POP MUSICIAN’S NAME HERE), THE BAD GIRL OF ROCK…” Description: Virtually every female musician who dyes her hair ‘punk’ colors and/or makes vaguely ‘rebellious’ (or quasi-feminist) pronouncements is saddled with this phrase in music reviews or featured interviews. This travesty of words has been going on since The Slits, and most notoriously […]
Song of the day – 52: Miu Mau
There’s something very early 80s Eno, or Phillip Glass about all this. Laurie Anderson, even. Doubtless some will dismiss the eerie simplicity and modernity of this music as a joke, or figure it to be ‘not music’. If this is not music then I don’t want to be a music critic. I’m living in the wrong […]
