Here’s a strong contender for the quintessential album of the 1990s — bold, patchy color fields, seemingly arbitrary objects, almost no depth perspective, and a nice big dose of cutoff narrow sans-serif. Also worth noting is the theme of the record, which is apparently lemons — a fruit of the brightest and sourest variety. Keep [...]
The Magnetic Fields – Holiday
16 January 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Norman Rockwell aesthetic is one that gets exploited constantly — by 90s punk revivalists seeking campy irony, tragically sincere housewives seeking Christmas decorations, and virtually everyone in between. The Magnetic Fields places themselves firmly within that strange crowd with 1994′s Holiday, in which lead songwriter Stephen Merritt and company establish a sound that would [...]
Spiritualized – Ladies and…
22 September 2010 by 1 Comment
I think I’m in love – probably just hungry. That line, which is this site’s namesake, is taken from the third track on Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. It signifies the confusion and self-deprecating humor of songwriter Jason Pierce, who doesn’t seem to have the capability to distinguish between simple feelings [...]
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