Have I mentioned that we live in Providence now? So I went to see Black Pus for free at the RISD Art Museum on Thursday. I didn't bring a camera, but it looked kind of like this: …his setup. It wasn't actually in the museum, but tucked away in this pleasant little covered terrace, kind of under and behind the museum. There was almost no one there when Brian started—promptly at eight—after which, guided assumedly by the megaton-decibel-blast funneling out into the streets, the [...]
RIYL = Times New Viking, Cloud Nothings, the like (Papaiti Records, 2011) How many full-length albums Mammal Airlines have recorded: 0 How many EPs Mammal Airlines have recorded: 3 How many Mammal Airlines EPs that are freely downloadable from Papaiti Records: 3 How many people are Mammal Airlines: 3 How many songs Mammal Airlines have written that I know of: 13 How old the Mammal Airlines kids probably are: 20 or something young like that How long Mammal Airlines are currently scheduled to be on hiatus according to Facebook: indefinitely How awesome this new EP is: [...]
(Sun Ark Records, 2011) I'm not unfamiliar with Sun Araw. How the project's been gaining momentum over these past couple three years. The whole lazy psych movement as it's seemed to me. Similar to bands like Wet Hair and Religious Knives (both of whom having also released albums this year) that had so much promise in their inception having almost completely petered out now, shedding everything that first marked them as bands to watch. Now churning out limp, indulgent psych nothingness. I'm being overly harsh, but in a musical environment as crowded as [...]
(self released, 2011) Sometimes, when you're caught between earth and sky, in the middle stages of being abducted by an alien saucer-ship, ropes of light looped under your arms and the backs of your knees, hoisting you skyward, there's a special sense of hope and wonderfulness; the feeling that, despite the unannounced stealing of you, these saucer-ship people, they might just be alright; a hope that this abduction just might land you a galaxy away, on some distant planet where warmongering and consumerism and bureaucratic paperwork and all the dirt and shame blah-ness of this world are nonexistent. [...]
From Ryan from Swaziland: If anyone out there read my last HYMN detailing my relationship with Hood's "You are Worth the Whole World" you know my affinity for electro-acoustic bands from the early 2000's and the brittle sputter of a drum machine over a piano's minor chord progression plunked from within the bowels of some forlorn lighthouse atop some Bronte-esque crag half-hidden by Iceland's Volcanic clouds. Actually, that is exactly how this song was recorded. The Icelandic collective nested inside a lighthouse [...]
(Students of Decay, 2011) We're moving to Providence, Rhode Island, so no new posts for a week or two at least. This Caboladies LP is limited to an edition of 300. I have no time to write about this, but I like Caboladies . So act quick. Listen: Caboladies: "Renewable Destination" by Students of Decay See you in a couple weeks...
(Dalkey Archive Press, 1967 originally) If you would like to know my exact taste in books moving forward, this is it: The Third Policeman . The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien is my exact taste in books. I finished the book a couple or more weeks ago and remember, when starting the book, thinking, this is incredible , and then when halfway through, this is my favourite book , and then once finished, absolutely, this is my new favourite book , and right now in rememberence, [...]
Erin says that I'm way too late to be posting about this, but I don't care. Because I love Saved By The Bell.
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(Temporary Residence, 2011) Matthew Cooper makes savior sounds. You may have heard some of them that he's made as Eluvium. Though he's released under his given name before as well. I mark his tones as sacred. I know others do as well. Some Days Are Better Than Others is original music Cooper scored for a film by the same name. I haven't seen it. Is it out yet? I don't know. I'm already arrested by the [...]
(self released, 2011) Ou Où's debut album, Baron Von Baron , had an otherworldly draw. With the volume of music that I have been listening to in the last few years it has become increasingly more commonplace for me to quickly dismiss an album that doesn't promptly present itself. Yet, Baron Von Baron , as stubborn a record as I can ever remember, kept me coming back again and again to figure it out, each go slightly more satisfying the last but still perplexing. Until, by year's end, it was one of my [...]
Forest Gospel
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
