The malaise in the world surrounding the 1970s (a.k.a. post-1960s) was condensed into several different genres of music, almost all of which were seething with anger and disillusionment with more than a touch of excess. Punk is most commonly associated with the rage coming from of the mouths of babes, but there was only so [...]
Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
13 February 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’m thinking of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That shack that ol’ Leatherface called home — a house in the middle of a homestead riddled with bones and deteriorating corpses and bodies stuffed in iceboxes. I admit that I haven’t actually seen the film (horror movies are one of my chronic weaknesses), but the sentiment is [...]
This Mortal Coil – It’ll End…
2 January 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was a teenager, stoned and listening to Low in the back of a trust fund baby’s Mercedes. Everything slowed to a crawl, set in place by that band’s mournful hum. I was looking out the window over the darkened hills of Santa Monica when the words came at me, hovering in the air like [...]
Crystal Stilts – Crystal Stilts
31 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Dirty Beaches – Badlands
18 April 2011 by Leave a Comment
It’s sorta funny: no matter how many times I listen to Dirty Beaches’ Badlands (and it only came out a few weeks ago) I can’t manage to decipher anything about it. Maybe it’s the hypnotic rhythms or the cavernous reverb or the absolute lack of low end frequencies. Maybe it’s the near-perfect Chris Issak impression [...]
Iggy Pop – The Idiot
12 November 2010 by 6 Comments
The modern city is a cold and desolate place when Daylight Savings Time ends. 3PM signals monochrome twilight and 5PM means the stuffy orange glow of city streetlights. Fall is here, Winter is nigh. God save your soul. Iggy Pop’s album The Idiot is an exercise in this urban ultramodern dread. It takes the glamor [...]
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