Drive By Truckers – A Blessing and a Curse [New West Records LLC 2006] It feels forced, like a piece that was so frustrating they just put it out to get it off the workbench. From the schlocky drumming that opens to the way Cooley splits the difference between Mick Jagger & Rob Thomas to …
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This whole commuting an hour thing really drains a fella
Wednesday – Rat Saw God [Dead Oceans 2023] Initially I’d almost written it off completely as a Difficult Listen, a minus considering how appealing the “country + shoegaze” descriptor really is since everyone seems to be ‘gazing and mashing up with disparate sounds. Good shoegaze isn’t just a blast of atonal powerchords, there’s riffs and …
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Three Northeast Fruits of Color and a White Het talk about Eric Andre’s Birthday
Cream Team or Squirt Squad? OwO
Failed attempts at corralling bodies for a podcast has left my energies elsewhere. But also I work on my own time anyway so what does it matter lol. This batch is stronger than most, nothing under a 3 which means there’s probably something for everyone. As always, I’m continuing my journey through the Drive-by Truckers, …
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Blue Mountain State is Heterosexual Camp
Sleater-Kinney – Call The Doctor [Chainsaw 1996] Riff kweens, truly. But also, friends and lovers. Sometimes when youthful desperation sounds this loud there’s a chance it gets written off as pure histrionics, but I think the clear intelligence of the two songwriters tempers some of the callowness associated with such drama. For explosions, please turn …
Introducing The Compendium
The word itself means “a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject”, so think of a canon or anthology except it sounds more esoteric than it actually is, which is pretty in line with my aesthetic. It’s going to serve (I hope) as a collection of a single artist’s releases, usually chronological, …
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Beyonce – Renaissance [Parkwood/Columbia 2022] She’s never been so unrelentingly sultry on a song-by-song basis like this, weaponizing an appeal that she was already a veteran of utilizing by the time she became a mother. After achieving creative freedom at the turn of the last decade every record since has been artier and more visceral. …
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Rubric With A Note
Three years in and maybe it’s time to put out something like a rubric or framework so that the varying degrees of good and bad that I end each of these blurbs with has some reference. Let me also say that it’s not lost on me that these collections of song that I grade are …
Love a Good Session of Sunning my Holes
Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom [Slash/Warner Bros Records 1995] A cult act if there ever was one, this four-piece led by surrealist spoken word poet M. Doughty arrived out of NYC’s experimental jazz scene based in The Knitting Factory. The name of the game, no matter how much Doughty’s a guitarist and a LOUD SINGER, …
Cosmic Hero 