Lovely piece, and spot-on about Slint’s lasting reputation and influence. It’s let down only by the rote in-group signaling about “dance music” and rap. The contradictory facets of Albini’s public persona are perplexing: he is capable of both tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, and the crassest adolescent posturing. Chuck Eddy has a great paragraph on ‘Songs About F***ing’, where he says that on ‘Tiny, King of the Jews’ Albini seems to break through into real insight about the bleak corner he has painted himself into. And then he breaks up Big Black and starts a new band called Rapeman. He is now one of the best follows on Twitter: consistently thoughtful and genuinely witty. Who would have thought it?
Cale versus Cale
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Flicked past this mellow fellow's elpees in the racks so many times over
the years, always faintly intrigued, but never enough to li...
Stormin' (the Bachelard series 1 of ?)
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"It seems that the immense void, in suddenly discovering an action, becomes
a particularly clear image of cosmic anger. We could say that the raging ...
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Art as conjuror of the dead.— Art also fulfils the task of preservation and
even of brightening up extinguished and faded memories; when it
accomplishes ...
lost in the schaffel
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Minimal house was in such a rut by the early 2000s they tried to juice it
up with some glammish boogie swing in the form of the "schaffel" fad
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Hinterlands of Memory
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Here's an interesting book - a specifically Canadian perspective on
hauntology, exploring the nexus of nationality, landscape and memory in
the 1970s...
Naffrofuturist (slight return)
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Around this time, *Sounds* actually had a Futurists Chart in their charts
page. Initially it was compiled by Stevo of Some Bizzare f...
"jumping iz not a crime"
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Kieran Press-Reynolds with a guest piece at Shawn Reynaldo's First Floor,
while the main man takes a vacation. It's a report on "the holy hell of
cursed j...
Mashupmanship ("lameness on the horizon")
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*LAMENESS ON THE HORIZON*
*(from 2001, Unfaves, off the old website A White Brit Rave Aesthete
Thinks Aloud)*
I was enjoying the Avalanches show at SOB...
four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
Lovely piece, and spot-on about Slint’s lasting reputation and influence. It’s let down only by the rote in-group signaling about “dance music” and rap. The contradictory facets of Albini’s public persona are perplexing: he is capable of both tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, and the crassest adolescent posturing. Chuck Eddy has a great paragraph on ‘Songs About F***ing’, where he says that on ‘Tiny, King of the Jews’ Albini seems to break through into real insight about the bleak corner he has painted himself into. And then he breaks up Big Black and starts a new band called Rapeman.
ReplyDeleteHe is now one of the best follows on Twitter: consistently thoughtful and genuinely witty. Who would have thought it?
yes he has matured nicely.
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