Modern audiences seem to view reggae as a genre that formed in a vacuum and has never changed or altered. The Harder They Come and Bob Marley and his extended family make up the beginning and end of reggae for casual listeners, which is a shame because it’s an extraordinarily rich genre, with many of its […]
Fossil Records: Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
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. Ambient music, though conceptually simple, perpetually walks a tricky line: make it too minimal and it risks being boring […]
Fossil Records: Dr. Alimantado’s Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Dr. Alminatado is probably most recognizable for a song that isn’t even exactly his: “Man Next Door,” a track off of Massive Attack’s game changing Mezzanine album, interpolates long stretches of his song “Poison Flower” (“Theeere’s a man who lives next doooor…”). But it would be a shame to let Alimantado’s notoriety, as well […]
Fossil Records: Lowdown da Sinista’s Coming for Your Soul
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. As far as I can tell, there is no widely available information on rap artist Lowdown da Sinista aside […]
PUP Come Across as Lovable Juvenile Delinquents on The Dream is Over
Early on in PUP’s new album The Dream is Over, an unnamed woman tells the protagonist he needs to grow up, indicating that the dream that’s over in the album title is one of perpetual adolescence. But as the band’s cacophonous punk anthems and generally fucked up demeanor make clear, that dream isn’t ending peacefully but in […]
Post Pink’s I Believe You, OK is Wonderfully Twisted Art Punk
There are a lot of reasons why power chords endure in music of righteous anger, but when you get down to it, it’s obvious the main reason is because they just feel good. You hit that simple shape and let it ring out and feel the sustain and it’s like the vibration is synced up […]
Albums for When It’s Just You and the Abyss: Low’s Secret Name
There are a lot of things I don’t remember very well from the years in between my mom first being diagnosed with cancer and losing that battle. Because this is the way life so often functions, it’s the years of stability that seem to be the fuzziest, the times she had “beat” her diagnosis and […]
Anohni’s Hopelessness is a Gratuitous, Tin-eared Trainwreck
I have a deep fondness for the work and words of Anohni. Her essay last year about why she chose not to perform at the Oscars was a welcome kick in the ass towards a media event that much of us somehow forget is literally an idolatrous celebration of corporatism and mediocrity; her work with […]
Sales’ Debut LP is the Sound of Longing
Funny how we tend to associate moody longing with grey, cold places. Maybe it’s because there is science behind it, as any former Pacific Northwest native can tell you all about the very real effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder. But even people who have never stepped foot in the chilly, rainy climates of Seattle or […]
Bür Gür Get Chill and Wonder Have You Lost Your Faith in God?
The past week or so, Austin (and most of central Texas) has been under siege by rain. This is a constant this time of year in central Texas, except the past few years have seen us assaulted by what would normally be “hundred year floods,” epic weather events that should appear once in a lifetime, […]
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