Yes, the cover is minimal, but upon first sight, it’s really creepy more than anything else. Completely drowned in contrast until the only thing left is a couple of thick lines and a stencil cut-out of a small child, staring exceptionally… blankly. The image is something that gives me flashbacks to the second or third [...]
Beach House – Devotion
17 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
I have to admit that for the first few months I had this album, I listened to it almost non-stop, front-to-back and held it as a cherished selection of my music library, and that only after years of having it did I realize how bizarre the album art was. Two people, posed in perfect symmetry, [...]
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I…
10 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
This may seem like cheating. Not too long ago I covered Happy Nightmare Baby by Opal, whose principle songwriter and overall album feel are accounted for in Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See. Yes, it’s David Roback once again, this time latching onto Hope Sandoval for a dreamy/sultry vocal combo (last time it [...]
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
3 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
Free jazz is a lot like abstract expressionism — streaming, raw and unintelligible. Listening to Ornette Coleman is like listening to an untranslatable language, much like seeing the work of Jackson Pollack is like looking at pictures of consciousness. Instead of the traditional dynamic (you look at and decode it) those two artists’ works flip [...]
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