Beach House – Devotion

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, [...]

Yo La Tengo – Painful

I used to take photographs like that.  As a teenager, I inherited my father’s old Canon AE-1 and hauled it around for a good few years.  Clunky and clanky, the camera was a totem of a past nearly erased by the ease and meager costs of digital point-and-shoots.  But as a fiery-souled teen, it was [...]