In the middle of the journey through War On Sound, a quixotic, grizzled, in recovery, former rock journalist (is there any other?) takes up the unasked-for challenge of a melancholic twentysomething guitar player whom the gods have gifted with the musical acumen of Mozart and prodigious sexual equipment similar to cordwood. The has-been journo says, […]
Exclusive Premiere: Cave People “Small”
Philadelphia indie band Cave People are in the process of releasing their new album Sinning Tree via Stereophonodon Records (preorder it here!) but they were kind enough to come to Loser City with a premiere of their track “Small.” Bridging the low-key poetic melancholy of the Silver Jews and the thick, rugged sounds of Archers of Loaf, […]
On Cody, Joyce Manor Get More Epic but Still Have Room to Grow
I don’t know why Joyce Manor’s songs are generally short. Maybe it’s an economic thing; if your songs generally aren’t more than two minutes long then maybe you can fit more of them into an opening act or spend less time in a studio recording an EP/LP. It doesn’t matter. What I do know is […]
Fossil Records: After Dinner’s Paradise of Replica
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Not dissimilar to Shiniseki e no Unga, another album covered in this column, After Dinner’s Paradise of Replica is […]
Fossil Records: Guernica’s Shinseiki e no Unga
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Sometimes you write a review of something and it reads more like a weird bedtime story than a critical […]
Fossil Records: Lee Hazlewood’s Requiem for an Almost Lady
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. In the beginning there was nothing. But it was kinda fun to watch nothing grow. In the end there […]
Fossil Records: Aphrodite’s Child’s It’s Five O’Clock
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Aphrodite’s Child didn’t put out “fossil records” so much as they were a full blown “fossil band”: best known […]
Fossil Records: Igor Wakhevitch’s Hathor
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. There’s a certain type of music that I’ve taken to referring to as “story music”—stuff that lends itself to […]
Fossil Records: Theme from Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation
If My Mine’s Stone, discussed in this column two weeks back, is the type of ‘80s dance music which befits a party in a teen movie, the tracks found on Theme From Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation are more in tune with the cocaine-and-strippers aesthetic of the era, the type of music you might expect […]
Fossil Records: GAA’s Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus
In all honesty, I’m a bit surprised it’s taken me as long as it has to feature a progressive rock album in this column: given how quickly prog flamed out, and the low standing in popular music it carries to this day, it’s no surprise that there are dozens if not hundreds of records from […]
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