January 2011
9 posts
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!!!!!(!): The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Err, seeing as the Plan reconvened recently and bare people got off on their hypetings, I figured it’d be a good idea to get my opinions on this MASTERPIECE out there.
To those who don’t know, The Dismemberment Plan (A.K.A. The D-Plan, A.K.A. the Plan) were an late 90’s to early 2000’s emoish band who, before their untimely demise, managed to write 1 good debut, a great...
!!!!: Cursive - Happy Hollow
I got in to Cursive a bit after I’d overplayed Fevers and Mirrors and a bit before I’d found out about Conor Oberst’s punk/emo group Desaparecidos, a huge thing for me, Lewis and BV. I’d been scouring the liner notes of the album (a complete masterpiece, btw, real big ‘must buy’ for anyone who can stomach kinda depressing lyrics) and found out that some guy...
!!!!: Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement
Yoni Wolf is God. Andrew Broder is Fog/very good. Hymie’s Basement, a collaboration between those two individuals, is, as you’d guess, awesome!
Yoni Wolf is a personal favourite artist of mine, his work in bands like Why? and cLOUDDEAD as well as smaller, more temporary peojects like Reaching Quiet have impacted heavily on me, shaping the way I look for music, occasionally go about...
WHAT A BAND.
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#362 - Don Caballero - From The Desk Of Elsewhere Go
For me, this is off Don Cab’s best release, 1998’s What Burns Never Returns. Displays the birth of some of the experimentation that make American Don and Battles first EPs so revered.
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!!!!!!!!!!: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
(In the future posts won’t be as wanky as this, but, come on, o man!)
As I write this the sleeve for Pet Sounds sits on the desk, opened on a page where Brian Wilson details the creation of and atmosphere surrounding it.
He starts explaining that in the winter of 1965, the year before Pet Sounds’ release, he heard Rubber Soul by The Beatles - a set of ‘very artistically...