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Stereopathic on Hypem
Jul
8
A: I remember the enormous carnival. I worried about shooters. You took me to shoot little metal pans and do some shots, and get my mind off of things. I did not want so much gin and I did not want any cigarettes. I probably had six ounces of your Seagram’s gin and three cigarettes.
B: I can’t believe we trust our children to these carnies.
C: My grandparents once let me ride this ridiculous Read more
Jun
23
Her hair in a fine mist, vapor around her head, she stretched hands down to his sides. His stony face expressed nothing about his sleep, his mouth closed tight. Over him, leaning her face down, feet planted bare on the grass, pink in green, she thought of herself as a mythological tree awakened by this boy’s loveliness, and moved in turn to wake him with branches, twigs tickling his underarms. She sent spider shivers Read more
May
25
Veckatimest
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It’s streaming (sorry, not no more as of 6/1) on Grizzly Bear’s myspace. After you listen, go buy it.
As with Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavillion, it is absolutely exhilarating to hear a creative and ambitious band tether its experimental tendencies to the concise demands of the four-minute pop song.
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (from 2009’s Veckatimest)
Apr
6
Monday: Track Matching
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There’s not necessarily a definitive reason why two tracks might match. Sometimes you might want to hear two tracks side by side because of the ways they’re different. Sometimes it’s the ways they’re the same. The most interesting pairs have both similarities and differences that create a tension between the songs.
The two songs that I’m putting next to each other today have a similar attitude, some sonic similarities, but different tempos, and where one Read more
Apr
1
Vincent Moon’s New Site
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I expect that most folks have seen at least one of The Take Away Shows. I first saw Zach Condon of Beirut singing ‘Knife‘ by Grizzly Bear there and have followed the performances pretty closely since then. The man behind it all is Vincent Moon. La Blogotheque’s The Take Away Shows strikes me as nearly the only site on the internet that produces consistently beautiful work.
Vincent Moon has a new site. You can read about it in his own words. It doesn’t initially look like it’s going to be very different than the Take Away Shows. But if we watch closely we might see something new.
In case you haven’t seen Bon Iver on The Take Away Shows, you may watch after the jump. Read more
Mar
17
Laura Gibson's Beasts of Seasons reviewed on Pitchfork.com.
First, check out the Pitchfork review of Laura Gibson’s Beasts of Seasons. In light of yesterday’s post, it’s actually a pretty good review. But I’m still completely stuck on the 7.2. On the 1-10 scale that makes it sound not good, but the review shows almost no negativity, engages the music and the words credibly, and generally sounds like it was written by a human. Anyway, who wants Read more
