Monday, March 25, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Big Black Delta
Pitchfork posted this earlier today. Great tune. Big Black Delta caught my ear on a mixtape (okay, it wasn't a tape but a playlist, but old terminology can die quite hard) a friend made me a few years ago. However, until about right now they had kind of fallen back into the ethers of my brain. This song has returned them (really 'him', as I believe BBD is the work of one man, Jonathan Bates)
Passion Pit
Initially I hated this song. Now I love it. Based on this picture that's been floating around the internet I think Passion Pit is probably pretty awesome aesthetically and that the radio-play is a fluke. Good for them. There's an obvious Flaming Lips correlation as far as live environment is concerned. Just looking at this makes me feel wonderful!!!
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| image courtesy of the always wonderful Brooklyn Vegan |
Anyway, I listened to a bit more of their most recent album, Gossamer, and it sounds like a cross between Junior Senior and M83. Interesting...
GUMMO
Since the first time I saw it, back in 1999, Harmony Korine's Gummo has been one of my all-time favorite films. You can say it's exploitative, disgusting, morose. Whatever. It is partly all those things. But it is also a deep and fragile beauty that I feel it is good to be reminded of, as in reminded how to find that beauty in the often ugly and disturbing world we live in.
If you've not seen it, I strongly suggest watching it. Here's a link to the entire film on youtube:
Stereophonics - Indian Summer
Somehow my wife and I totally missed that Stereophonics' new record, Graffiti on the Train, was released about a a week and a half ago. Here's a review at drownedinsound.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
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