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 Scott Creney

The Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read

The Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read

By Scott Creney So when you first join up there’s all these goddamned floating circles and you’re supposed to pick your favorite genre of music from a bunch of categories that are so broad & vague as to be meaningless: alternative, electronic, pop, rock, oldies, etc. But you can’t see all the bubbles at once […]

 Scott Creney

The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley (Juno)

The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley (Juno)

This isn’t just one more reunion. And I’m pleased to say that Uncanney Vally justifies its existence, the re-emergence of the band.

 Scott Creney

Willis Earl Beal – Nobody Knows (XL)

Willis Earl Beal – Nobody Knows (XL)

Music to bury your parents to. Music to shake yourself to sleep to. Music to make a traffic jam seem poetic. Music to make you a better person. Music to make you the worst person you’ve ever been. Music to stalk children to. Music to save the world to.

 Scott Creney

Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Sony)

LC follows the template he’s been following for the last 20 years. He’s still peddling his bedroom songs for the educated letch.

 Scott Creney

Guided By Voices – Let’s Go Eat The Factory (Fire)

Robert Pollard’s language is a universe that is both abstract and familiar, a poetry informed by gray skies and basements, used cars and starch.

 Everett True

that new Tom Waits album reviewed in full

It’s the best kind of “more of the same”

 Scott Creney

Various – Rave On Buddy Holly (Hear Music)

Dignity is just an obstacle that keeps you from reaching your full commercial potential.

 Sophie

Males making a career of being blue: masculinity and moroseness in alternative music

Why is that male-fronted bands are more easily notorious for emotionality than any similarly visceral girl-fronted bands?

 Wallace Wylie

Cass McCombs – Wit’s End (Domino)

If you like museum pieces, by all means pick this album up.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 341: EMA

Every morning, just to wake myself up and remind myself I’m alive, I like to stare into the abyss.