I grew up entirely oblivious to the Smashing Pumpkins, and when I finally did discover the band — with Siamese Dream — I felt as if someone were trying to simultaneously trying to document both the noise and serenity of my childhood. Of course, I wasn’t a little girl dressed as an angel, the nearest white [...]
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, [...]
The Jesus and Mary Chain…
22 May 2011 by Leave a Comment
1985. Cassettes, vinyl, VHS (or Beta). Analog. Now that almost everything is digital, it’s all too easy to default to analog systems as kitschy, ironic, and intentionally chintzy. But not too long ago, it was a means of pure and unadulterated power. The heavy clicks and thumps of vinyl on a turntable; the noisy hiss [...]
Yo La Tengo – Painful
7 March 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Radiohead – In Rainbows
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