Song of the day – 52: Miu Mau
There’s something very early 80s Eno, or Phillip Glass about all this. Laurie Anderson, even. Doubtless some will dismiss the eerie simplicity and modernity of this music as a joke, or figure it to be...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson – Homeland (Nonesuch/Warner)
It’s easy to miss Laurie Anderson. She might have been out there in the creative spectrum for over 30 years and she’s artistic royalty but still she lives on the fringe, experimenting with art,...
View ArticleSong of the day – 179: Otouto
Folk over here (notably themselves) compare this Melbourne trio’s delicate and intelligent dance music to Bjork, Young Marble Giants, Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson… but I don’t really hear any of...
View ArticleSong of the day – 451: Julia Holter
Funny how stuff happens. Yesterday, I stumbled across a piece of pseudo-academic excrescence masquerading as music writing around a new album by one Julia Holter. So I ran a small article about it on...
View ArticleTalk Normal – Sunshine (Joyful Noise)
By Scott Creney Now this right here is pretty damn great. We’re talking great enough to almost make me fall in love with Brooklyn all over again. Any borough that can produce something like this can’t...
View ArticleJenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl (Sacred Bones)
By Scott Creney I know that none of this matters b/c the album came out nearly a week ago and so everyone’s already on to reading about another record by now. If I’d finished this earlier, I could have...
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