Category: Music
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composting poptimism / an ecosystemic model of culture
That thing where someone makes an argument you wish you’d made yourself, and furthermore does it in a style whose ugliness belies its incredible efficacy.
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30MAY24 / Tramps!
As a Nineties kid, I came up knowing (and hating) the 1980s for being a period of superficiality, of “style” and the artifice of appearances, and it’s interesting to hear these pioneers concede those diagnoses, and discuss them in terms of their inheritance of scenes previous.
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09MAY24 / Albini
I decided a long time ago that I won’t have heroes any more, but I still have people I admire. Albini makes that list for a lifetime’s commitment to what he believed in, even when it made things difficult.
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that boy needs therapy
The dopey dad-joke non sequiturs of “Frontier Psychiatrist”, the inescapable hit single, set my teeth a-grind from the very first listen, precisely because they seem so calculated, in a manner that’s entirely of a piece with the masterful joinery of the music itself.