Dance and Cry, the latest record from Danish duo Darkness Falls makes you neither want to dance nor cry, but instead drive down a dark, lonely road for hours on end either to run away from a jilted lover or to kill him. Much like Chromatics’ 2012 classic Kill for Love, which this record owes […]
Pop Rehabilitation: The Vapors
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Nick Hanover attempts to revive interest in The Vapors, an ’80s New Wave outfit known for their hit “Turning Japanese” and endless jokes […]
Fossil Records: The Units’ Digital Stimulation
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 work that never got its due. The creative process gets compared to conception and gestation fairly frequently and for good reason. There is the conception of an idea […]
Video of the Week: Gain “Paradise Lost”
If Gain isn’t your favorite K-pop star you’re probably doing it wrong. While the majority of Korean pop artists churn out maximalist, pastel-drenched fodder for teeny-boppers (much of which is excellent in its own right–see The Pink Tape), Gain has set herself apart by developing a uniquely mature, enigmatic and stone-cold sexy persona since her […]
Locked Away in the 6: Drake and the Desperate Excellence of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
In 2006, Kanye West appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing a crown of thorns. Apart from its place in the narrative of Kanye as a famous person who does things that offend people, and the blasphemy that certainly made a lot of middle American grocery-store shoppers nervous as they perused the magazine aisle, […]
Positive Thuggery: Croatoan Crimewave is a Stunning Early Work by BB Sun
Normally when you stumble across an early artifact from an artist’s career it’s more curious than satisfactory, offering you glimpses at the promise that was there all along but ultimately serving as a reminder that artistry needs time to develop and early failures are as important to the DNA as initial successes. So the fact […]
Raps for When It’s Just You and the Abyss: Open Mike Eagle’s A Special Episode of is Sincerity as Art
There is a new meta-suicidal Drake mixtape out and you’ve probably heard it or at least heard the pundit brigade’s thoughts on it. It’s got a cover that, to paraphrase a remark by The Roots, looks like it was written by one of the Chick-Fil-A cows but beyond that it’s another salvo in hip hop’s […]
Sunday Sads: The Corrupters’ Weakend is an Adventurous Power Pop Work by a Seattle Loner
Self hyped as “powerpop anthems for the weekend,” the Corrupters’ Weakend is one of those rare random Bandcamp finds I knew I’d enjoy just from a glance at the artwork and sparse liner notes. With cover art looking like an ’80s slasher flick VHS cover take on Twin Peaks, Weakend has the green melancholic aesthetic of so many […]
Everything is No Longer Boring: Does The Upside EP Mark the Real Return of Spank Rock?
For whatever reason, when it came to make a follow-up to his still revolutionary debut Yoyoyoyo, Spank Rock decided to spend five years smoothening out his rough, crass edges and obliterating the bulk of the alien weirdness that made him so unique on Yoyoyoyo. The result was the (prophetically titled) Everything is Boring and Everyone is a Fucking Liar, an […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Amanda Blank’s I Love You
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Nick Hanover wonders whatever happened to Amanda Blank, and why her shouldabeen breakout album I Love You didn’t click with audiences but now fans […]
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