Blog: music (for robots)

There's a weird amount of hubris and sympathy in this one, like a hip-hop song doused in Sleater-Kinney production. Julie Doiron - Consolation Prize. It's like she feels bad you had to be with someone as awesome as her, "every night, following" her, but sees it as an inevitability. Then there's that almighty fuzz: so simple, yet it clouds the song just enough so the track isn't the straight-ahead pop song it may otherwise have been. Julie Doiron's new record I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day is really good. Despite idiomatic warnings, I immediately judged it by...

• Julie Doiron - Consolation Prize