At the moment I’m heavily preoccupied with reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, so in homage I’ll write only one sentence in each category, and squeeze whatever I need to say into it. Onward to changes in 2013, I say! Best Album Zelienople, The World Is A House On Fire (Type) Rounding out another...
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This reissue still holds up strong.
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Woo is a band whose disarming joviality is almost annoying given the vastly interesting music on It’s Cosy Inside, like hearing a really lame interview subject.
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The link between an artist’s sense of empathy and their capacity for creating beauty – while not always necessarily the case – perhaps too often goes unexamined
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Although he was born and raised in New Jersey, Alan Licht was from an early age greatly influenced by the music that emerged during his youth in nearby New York City, a place that would define the tone of his body of work; his recordings – early ones with bands such as Love Child,...
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The impetus behind this release – to present songs in the Gaelic and Scots languages (in addition to English) – is to say the least very interesting, and the quality of the music here is very high.
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This release contains very well-formulated music, but much of the material seems superfluous, at times poorly recorded, and two-dimensional in sound.
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Australian instrumental rock trio the Dirty Three released their last CD in 2005.
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Batoh is spiritual leader and guitarist in the Japanese band Ghost and has seemingly made a career out of confounding and subverting expectations.
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Best Album Peaking Lights, 936 LP/CD/tape (Not Not Fun) Where to begin with this? Peaking Lights really took off into the stratosphere on this one. It’s certainly not as hazy as their older stuff, but no less excellent. Equal parts surf music, dub, pop, synth music (there’s a track called “Synthy” for crying out...
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Writing for Foxy D. reminds me that the music world in 2011 is thriving. Music is (as it always has been) a teeming ecosystem now deep in the process of shedding major-label shenanigans, just like the food ecosystem is slowly beginning to reject factory farming. For 2012: continue to look closely and go deep…...
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