What does your television do when you’re not watching? Chrome’s 1979 LP Half Machine Lip Moves is a record from a band that tries to harness the hidden waves of buzz and static that could be there when you’re not — because, well, you never know. The cover art is oblique and collage-y pointing directions [...]
Television – Marquee Moon
30 January 2012 by Leave a Comment
You may think there’s not much to look at on first encounter of Television’s Marquee Moon, but this album files comfortably under “subtle masterpiece.” The group, posed somewhat oddly in a “stacked” formation, is rendered in a heavy yellowed tint, much like other photographs that might have been taken in the 1970s, but their stance [...]
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 [...]
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